Originally Posted by
Nebiroth99
Rubbish. Othe rplayers can read the sims and see warlock performances for themselves
The real truth is that everyone has realised that it takes a highly skilled player to squeeze out a warlock's maximum, mediocre at best damage
A PUG group has no idea of a player's skill, so they use a simple filter - class. It's just an easy and safer option to take a mage ror hunter as a ranged, because you are virtually guaranteed to get a decent performance. Mages and hunters are inherently stronger and easier to play classes.
And in the hands of a skilled player, a mage or hunter willalways beat a warlock of equal skill.
Moreover, all warlock specs are horribly cramped by their talent trees. No other class has to semi-cripple it's single target damage to do decent aoe, or semi-cripple it;s aoe to do decent single target
A mage loses 1-2% of their single target by taking Living Bomb. An affliction warlock has to lose 10%+ of his single target to take Sow the Seeds. But without Sow the Seeds, affliction's aoe is garbage.
Affliction is good at one thing only, trash aoe. Fore mages can be almost as good, but deliver good single target as well.
So basically, classe slike hunters, mages have excellent all-rounder capabilities and on average deliver more damage. It's a simple and logical choice, a hunte ror mage takes preference over a warlock every single time.
Our other guild lock rerolled fire mage, and just doesn't get decline after decline.
The game is drowning in dps, guarantee every pug group will have alist of applicants and there willalway sbe mages and hunters, not least because many more people play them. It's a no-brainer choice to take them over a lock.