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How to deal with PvP Mages?
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Post by
fearbefore
Hello, everyone.
I've recently started to pick up the PvP side of my level 80 Warlock. I have always just used him for end game PvE. But since his PvE set has now advanced into Ulduar, I have nothing left to really do with him once I am saved to Ulduar each week.
Now, I have been collecting PvP gear from VoA and Wintergrasp/Honor since the day I dinged 80, just never put it to good use until I got Dual Spec.
I have mostly Furious and Deadly Gear along with a few pieces of Hateful, I have read up on the PvP Sticky on this website for the correct enchants and gems for each piece, but the problem I am having is know the right ways to beat each class.
I don't have any problems with any other class except Priests and Mages. Which is weird, everyone complains about how OP Death Knights and Paladin's are, but I honestly have no problem destroying either of them. I can kill Paladin's and still have over 80% of my HP.
But whenever it comes to Priests or Mages, I feel like a helpless, worthless, PoS. It seems that they both constantly have their Absorb Shield up the entire fight, the Priest can easily cleanse most of my DoTs, whereas a Mage can easily Decurse my Curses. I feel like I am having far more problems with Mages than I am with Priests.
The problem I have with Mages is that my Curses are useless against them, their resistances make my Fear sometimes fail, their absorb shield seem to shrug my Death Coil and Shadowfury off, I sometimes manage to Banish their elemental pet, and Shadowfury their Mirror Images, but the Mage is still blinking away, bursting me down and CCing me straight to hell. Not to mention the worst problem of all, while i'm either polymorphed or silenced, they manage to dominate my pet in 2 shots, making me even more worthless. That's the worst part about it, that Silence from their Counterspell, it seems like it's ALWAYS up and I am silenced for the entire fight.
How do you PvP warlocks manage to beat Mages? Whether it be a Duel or by simple fighting one off while doing your dailies?
Post by
ZoraLink
Mana drain priests. Durr.
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Fear, may we have an armory link?
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Post by
mindthegap5
when they ice block i wait till their out of it death coil then fear again
How to lure a mage out of iceblock:
Start bandaging he'll get really pi$$ed off and will break it. Then you kill him. The slower and more painful the better.
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Warlock Guide - PvP
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Post by
Ragingtiger
Was this a serious question?
Mages are so easy, if they pop mirror image, the bulk of their spells will hit you for nothing. Just keep them in your face the entire time, make sure they're casting spells. Counter spell sucks, but if you use your fears, stuns, and death coil smart, they won't get it off.
I lol at mages, I barely try, the same with hunters, I just lay down a shadow fury, start my rotation, finish it , and walk away with 2/3 of my health.
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ZoraLink
Mana drain priests. Durr.
/facepalm
You will not mana drain a competent priest before you're dead.
I find priests fairly simple to kill. You've just got to keep a constant cc chain on them. They will use their bubble, and they will pain suppression at some point. If they bubble, you can chaos bolt through it (Assuming you're destro). If they pain suppression about all you can do is just keep them locked in fear and blasting away with incinerates till it wears off, then go for a felpuppy silence, and try to gib them.
Make sure you use your devours from your felpup defensively (dispelling priest DoTs).
For mages, I have problems with some, and no problems with others. Arcane are pretty easy to take out, as people not good with frost. Again you'll need to be devouring yourself to get the snares off of you, which is hard sometimes because of the trash debuff stacks mages put up on you. And against good frost mages, I just find it sometimes impossible to beat them.
I play a priest. A competent priest. Mana drain kills me, way more than any CC.
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mindthegap5
Rofl bandaging while he's in ice block thats brilliant
Why not? hes not trying to kill you might aswell start healing yourself.
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ZoraLink
I play a priest. A competent priest. Mana drain kills me, way more than any CC.
So you're saying if I were to nuke and mana drain you as a warlock, instead of setting up a fear/sfury/dc/fear/silence lockout, you'd die faster. I dont see that happening for the simple fact that even if I'm draining you, you can still heal.
I'm giving the OP an idea on the fastest, and easiest way to kill a priest and it works pretty darn well from my experiences against them.
I suppose I just last a while then. I always have
Fear Ward
on me for a start, so your first fear isn't gonna work, unless you sic your felpuppy on me and get lucky enough to dispel it. Even then, that means your silence isn't gonna work now. I trinket out of the second fear (And bear in mind, I always have a shield + renew +
Prayer
on myself at all times), use
Desperate Prayer
if I need to, otherwise a quick penance will do, dispel immolate, probably get Shadow Furied about then, by this point the lock tries another fear usually, or blows death coil on me, Prayer of Mending is up again by this point, so usually another 3-4k heal, at least, renew is still ticking, and I refresh my shield. I can always pop a quick pain suppression if I need to. In short, I'll survive, but if instead of trying to nuke me during these, just toss DoTs on me, enough to make me be taking damage, then mana drain me to 0, I'll usually die. If I have mana left after your nuke, you're probably toast (Eventually. SW:P and Devouring Plague + holy fire will wear you down. Slowly. :P)
I dunno, warlocks just aren't a threat to me other than their mana drain, maybe it's just how I play (Dispel maniac anyone? Affliction locks are more of a threat than destruction locks to me.)
So yeah. Um. That's my point of view from a priest.
EDIT: Durrr, view, not few.
EDIT2: Oh, and at some point I'm goin to fear you/your fel puppy to make it go away.
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