Yesterday's Botanica runFollow

Error or not ?

Now I usually defend warlocks because I have one as main, but if you were the main CC in Botanica that lock was obviously not doing his job.

I have yet to find a hunter that would come even close to damage my warlock can do.
Maybe my baby alt hunter will be that one some day :p

Warlcock was 100% intentional.



Aye, I hear you fellas. I've had several people doing my damage or higher. Thing is, they've had at the very least one epic (and my hunter has NONE, even got some levelling greens left). I had a warrior with epic dual wield (crafted axe, aldor sword) do 1% less damage than me in a mechanar run today. And I've had a fire mage doing a few percent below me, and several (amongst them another fire mage, I believe) that have out-DPS:ed me. These are mostly warlocks.

The inability of the warlock I played with is unavoidable. But still... I trapped almost every pull (chain trapped on alot of them) and still I did 31% and my pet 17%... It's quite a gap, and I had equivalent gear compared to the others.

Ah what the hell... there are blokes for everything. I have after all met a melee:ing priest once... /shrugg

sounds like a sl run I had a while back. warlock in full blues + 30% pvp gear, rogue (me) with semi decent gear (middling in the hit, cirt and dps.)
Beginning half of the run I was doing 40% to his 22%. I though back to the effects I remembered on the mobs.
pst "Hey if you want to do more damge stop spamming your shadow bolts. pop your dots, keep them up and spam shadow bolts and other spells between."

reset damage counter. 5 more pulls.
me 36% him 27%.

pst "if you want to do even more damage. make sure the tank has enough aggro on the secondary target and maintain dots on that guy too."

reset damage counter. 5 more pulls.
me 34% him 29%

saw him again for an arc run yesterday. he told me he had his guildie run him though spell rotation, gear balancing and target priority.

Damage counter, Him 29.6% me 31.4%. I feel like a dad. ^_^

Seems that hunters on my server usually have too much hands full meleeing mobs they broke out of traps themselves to actually dps.
I only met one so far that could trap something properly (and that only once, no chain trapping) but her pet was such crappy tank versus my felguard that I always assumed hunters have very poor tanks in their pets.
Forgive me for that but that is what I saw.

Now, when my own hunter is approaching 64 very fast, I can say both my pets tho level or 2 behind (yes I level 2 pets at once) are way above my locks felguard in hp, armor, dps and even keeping aggro.
I still have occasional run with BM hunters that melee rather than shoot breaking sheep and my seduce on the way without even noticing it. I am talking level 70.



Any non heroic run I never bother to cast DoTs on trash... its waste of mana and time because the mobs go down in seconds. 2 SBs and eventually Shadowburn, mob is down. I only DoT my offtanking target.
Ok I admit my lock is in half purples half blues, but if lock in your group have reason to cast CoA on main target trash mob in Slabs, your group seriously lack overall dps.

Not to mention that dotting all around can only make problems if something goes wrong and you need extra sheeping/trapping/seducing.

I really hope you have high level warlock when you are giving such advices based just on damage meters. Sometimes not being on top of dps meters is better than having multiple wipes due to reckless behavior just to keep your dps up.

Well, actually any trash (not counting those tougher demons) with my usual group setup goes down in less than 8 sec.
We all did that instance many times and those were just rep runs or me trying to get a sword and mage spellstrike legs pattern. I saw Sonic Spear drop and being disenchanted some 15 times - I am sure if I get to run my hunter for it it will never drop.
And it never takes us more than than 2 hours to do it even if someone has to go quick afk.

But yes, last time we were helping few fresh 70ies get first Kara key fragment and it turned into nightmare.
We had hunter breaking not only his own traps but my seduce too and meleeing half of the time. When you have hunter being 2nd on taking damage you must assume he is doing something very wrong.

I pulled succy, tho I can run that instance with my felguard much faster and more reliable, but I was trying to show another level 70 warlock dragging VW around that succy actually can be more useful.
Our tank couldnt grasp kitting the 3rd boss properly and that was where my 30g repair bill made me loose patience and I bailed out - after 5 hours.

At one point we had bad pull plus stealthed rogue in that hall before the 2nd boss and I was the only one alive with 3 mobs... one banished felhound, one kept chain seduced and one I juggled with dots and fear. Then succy went oom (couldnt risk LT due to my own low hp so I had lucky SB crit on one, pulled felguard to tank another and dot/feared what was left. Somehow I made it and stayed alive, barely.
That is a sort of situation where I use all the available dots.

But if things are under control they are just a waste of time usually. I have mobinfo addon and I can see what kind of hp I am dealing with and somewhat predict how long a fight could last. I use my spells accordingly then.