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Old 07-19-2006, 06:36 PM   #18
Timber Loftis
40th Level Warrior
 

Join Date: July 11, 2002
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 11,916
Quote:
Originally posted by Glycerine_74:
Your talent review is coming, so just be patient and wait it out.

glyc
No, it's not. Blizztard has officially stated that henceforth there may be tweaks and bugfixes, but the Rogue talent review in 1.12 is officially the last talent revisit they will have until after Burning Crusade is on the shelves.

I'm not really having issues. I've got a cool guild and I'm not shut out of any raid I want to be on.

But, the mage talent review has left many Locks out in the cold. A number of guilds are shutting down the Lock numbers in BWL and further raids to 2 Locks. One for CoR to buff melee DPS and one for CoE to buff Rogue DPS, and none needed for CoS because that's a waste with only 2 Locks. They each have to show up with a metric s**tload of shards to summon everyone, give out HS's and still have Soulstones up.

The problem I'm seeing is, regardless of PVP or levelling prowess, some classes are getting marginalized end-game, due to their lack of utility, and are getting replaced by rogues and mages for ub3r DPS.

NagaSaki, I cannot believe you're in the top 3 DPS because it mathematically doesn't make sense. Our Locks always fall below rogues and mages, amidst hunters and above DPS warriors. If you look at the Lock's mana inefficiency vs. Mages and overall lack of DPS comparable to Rogues I don't see how even the most damage-intensive Lock builds could compare, especially on long boss fights. AND I DON'T MIND -- Mages are supposed to be the uber caster DPS, and I am cool with that. But between their new threat talents and Warlock's (1) lack of threat reduction except in a gimped damage build, (2) mana inefficiency (LifeTap really takes time away from pewpewpew'ing), and (3) limitations on DoT's on a raid, it seems the Lock has been knocked far enough down to merit cutting their numbers on a raid.

As I said, my guild has been cool about it, and we have cut our recruitment off, so our numbers are set and Locks aren't getting as marginalized. But, I'm reading guild leaders every day talk about doing Naxx and cutting the number of Locks on a raid from 4 to 2.
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