How to deal with getting trained by two melee in arena as an affliction warlock?

[Grumpy Old Man]

Necro'ing an almost 3 years old thread

[enigma77]

Necro'ing an almost 3 years old thread

Well nothing has changed, Affliction is still the worst Warlock spec by far, because it lacks any kind of durability despite having zero mobility, a terrible combination.

[Luxeley]

Well nothing has changed, Affliction is still the worst Warlock spec by far, because it lacks any kind of durability despite having zero mobility, a terrible combination.

Affliction didn't suck prior to the deathbolt and demon armor nerf.

[Tyrannica]

well, you simply don't. Imagine affliction was the meta for years for locks...they were always vulnerable to melee cleaves, but in this bursty meta they are kinda out of luck - the other problem is there are quite a number of abilities that could simply remove all the dots, so i wouldn't even use affliction in other pvp content like bgs. Also rot dmg is countered by any healer and any dd with strong selfheal(hi, hero classes)

[Yassen]

Yes, they were always vulnerable.

[Tyrannica]

Make all dots instant, and do as much damage and burst as the current essences and trinkets.

Fix'd.

Oh...and give them more leech to their dots, but thats not really necessary in the current bursty meta.

[Luxeley]

So the suggestions is make sure to CC and preferably stun/snare?

Snares are useless against melee because all of them have 2 or 3 gap closers. A snare, even a 70% snare isn't stopping any given melee with the lone exception of a bad DK or terrible Ret. And Affliction does not possess a stun other than Shadowfury which is useless because of the cast time and only lasts about 3-4 seconds.

[Malania]

Snares are useless against melee because all of them have 2 or 3 gap closers. A snare, even a 70% snare isn't stopping any given melee with the lone exception of a bad DK or terrible Ret. And Affliction does not possess a stun other than Shadowfury which is useless because of the cast time and only lasts about 3-4 seconds.

Your powers with the Lich King are strong, dread necromancer.