Originally Posted by
Nivrax
HS are gone in MoP,(So is Shadow Cleave Healing) Gateway is close to useless most fights and gets nerfed too(Gateway is a Core Mechnic of 3 out of 4 "Hard" fights in the last quarter of the instance:Thok,Siegecrafter,Garrosh). Take Garrosh hc - only utility a lock have there, is to have strong dps, to burst engineers or adds in first intermission, and HS every third Whirl.(Not to forget having a gate for the way back from the first engineer to ensure nobody aggros the Wolfrider on its way to lose 50% health in the Ironstar) Meanwhile I would kill to have SPriest to have actual root (that can't break from any damage) for adds in p1(There is no point in having a shadow root the adds anywhere since they will kill the tentacles easily and if not will randomly kill every melee that comes near), Halo for EVERY Whirling corruption(For Halo to have any use you have to cast it from range and most times you dont have the possibility since desecrated weapon and whirling are likely to randomly come very close another, same with touch of yshaari) ,(+ for offhealing you would use dstar) and Feathers as best mobility tool in game for kiting Iron Star.(in the toolkit of the class least fit to kite the iron star, combined with an utterly unreliable and random pickup mechanic even if perfectly aimed)
You can have Gateway if you want it so badly. On current tier it's rather shitty, on 10 only really GOOD use is Thok...blablabla who cares about all the freeloot bosses before the last quarter.(I'd take Mass Dispell all day every day over that though)->only unique shadow utility. So yeah, Gateway was/ IS STRONG, in ToT, for Qon, Megeara, Ji-Kun and Lei Shen. In SoO it's mostly crap on the bossfights that are easy anyway, for progress on the harder ones its almost a must have. I can guarantee if you would replace Warlock with SPriest you wouldn't notice diffrence apart from lower raid dps (much lower on single targets I'll give you that), t90 covering what healthstones could do, and give more with raid healing and mana cds and feathers.
-> Much lower raid dps.Forcing the shadow to use t90 as offhealing tool and not for deeps ( healthstones are healing on personal demand , like a potion in d3 = way more versatile and useful)
If you want to feel good, I'm most likely rerolling Spriest next expansion after maining lock since BC. With dev team clearly not knowing how locks work -->>> ??? WHAT ?? they have reworked locks in mop to the best scaling , most fluently running and well rounded class that has every existed in the history of wow. period. (given some straight up stupid changes) and spriest confirmed to being buffed up to pure dps you can be nearly sure it's their time to shine, with one spec having every tool needed ever (multi, burst, aoe, excecute cheese even, it's like perfect amalganation of affli and destro with procs and without shitty pet).