Go for the Voidwalker? WTF?!Follow

Cause they are retarded? What level are you/they? maybe they just don't know any better yet.

I believe the OP was wondering why the attacker tried to kill his VW, not why the OP should have a VW out in the first place.

The answer is that there is no good reason. Perhaps the allies you've run into just don't understand lock minions. I could see killing the succy, b/c of seduce, her spell dmg buff, and the fact that she is damn easy to kill. But the VW does minimal dmg and has a fair amount of hp. No way you'll beat him down before the DoTs take care of you.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2007 12:45pm by AynLoD

The reason I kill a pet first is that it requires another soul shard to summon a new one. Its also good to know that for the next 10 seconds warlocks are going to be summoning their pet again.

Oh I am a mage and have I can never kill a warlock so thats not my goal. My goal is to cause as much as an inconvenience for them as possible. Them needing another soul shard, and after the battle having to wait 10 seconds to summon a new minion.

Thats probably why people kill the pets first, to cause as much inconvenience as possible.

In BGs, if I'm guarding - a hunter can do /target MyName and send his pet in to harrass me - and he sometimes doesn't even show up for the party. Or the pet can go up the cliff, but he can't.

That's about the only time I kill a pet.

I've noticed people attacking my pets, too. It's weird. Confused players? People who aren't thinking? Newbies to bg?

I'm just glad that they do it. Helps me win!

Sacrifice is obviously the biggest benefit against another player, especially a hunter. Demonology, imo, is the only spec this would completely ***** over. Personally, I have never dueled with anything but my imp, generally because I've always done my lock duels while waiting for an instance run.

Battlegrounds are a completely different story. A warlock immediately has a bullseye over his/her head, especially in Alterac Valley, when the locks will have felguards, unstable affliction, howl of terror, death coil and any number of other nasty spells they might have (and seed of corruption at the 70 battlegrounds). That said, the hunters in battlegrounds are generally BM or MM spec, and sometimes will team up to use Silencing Shot and Bestial Wrath in conjunction with each other in order to ensure that the lock is dead before it has a chance to do much of anything. (Myself, I consider my job done if I can use instant Howl in the middle of a group and send them scattering while the tanks destroy what's left over the next 8 seconds.)

As per duels, there's generally an easy way around the pet thing anyway, depending on your level. Death coil immediately will give you enough time to cast fear (2 sec for death coil, 1.5 sec cast Fear), then dot dot dot (and dot again if you can get out UA and/or Immolate as well). Howl of Terror if need be, then Fear again and drain. Easily slaughtered rogues and druids this way, ime (unless, of course, undead anything, but that's a different story).

Keep going after my pet, please. You're dead.

Maybe because 90% of all Warlocks that PvP are SL/SL and their pet is a big part of them and killing them not only makes it "annoying" for the warlock, but you are much more efficient in killing the warlock itself. If it's a Voidwalker the warlock generally gets 10% damage mitigation which is 30% mitigation in total when combined with Soul link. So killing the pet basically is making you do 30% more damage to the warlock.

Edited, Nov 6th 2007 3:36pm by mechpriest

In world PVP, if your Voidwalker is tanking mobs for you, it makes sense for a ganker to kill it first so that the mobs then come after the 'lock.