While I am inclined to think you#re doing it wrong I have to wholeheartedly agree with the notion of nerfing warlocks. It's wednesday after all.
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Actually its a 3 second cast followed by an instant cast if you're under 20% health.. sure.. nerf the burst, but only if there's an equal raise in sustained damage. Honestly i think you're exaggerating a bit, unless he had zerking he's not hitting you for 280k in one shot..
As a Mistweaver Monk (in PVP), if I see a Warlock they are my prime concern over any other class. If I determine they're Demonologist, I stun and move on. If they're Affliction I ignore them completely because it's really funny if they try and dot me up. If I determine it's a Destruction lock then he's all that matters. I'm in partial conquest gear and have my four-set. I almost can't out-heal his damage if he's aiming at anyone but me.
This is assume that there's at least one other person on his team actively fighting myself or the group I'm standing there in.
Now, if you're BM. A silence then a stampede should be all it takes to ruin any Warlock's day. Assuming you have those lined up in time.
Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
A small edited screenshot of a log doesn't really say anything. What it does say is that you only had 17k health left and were being attacked by multiple enemies which were applying at least one debuff since Shattering Throw reduces armor as well as removes invulnerabilities. Anyone could have killed you at that point and over kill is exactly that overkill.
Maybe it is overpowered for it to do that much under perfect circumstances. But they are exactly that perfect circumstances. If you let a nuclear bomb launch you can't complain that they it hit you for so much when you could have stopped it.
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Let's be honest here. Unless you're a warrior/dk, you are bound to have your hands full with a lock (destro or demo, ofc).
Just deal with them or move on. Every classes has their own fix on the way.
There, fixed that for you
Spriests are the bane of my existence atm, everyone else? Aside from spriest and a good dk, not so much worry, usually I play with them until they burst, then pop defensives and Archimond's vengence. In D.A.
Anyways, guess I got it from years of tanking, or maybe it's that I am a sadist, I enjoy watching ppl pop cd's and burst, only to kill themselves, since my HP is usually much higher and I self heal, while I damage them and they damage themselves.
Not to mention a few weeks of payback for years of knockbacks and mind controls off cliffs lol
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