Warlock are worse?why is that?Follow

The way I see it, one of two things happened:

1) You approached him with the same English you've displayed here (not that it's bad - I'm guessing you're a foreigner like myself) and he figured you for a "noob" and told you to go roll a Rogue because he believes the Rogue class is a "noob" class.

2) He's been owned so many times by a Rogue in PvP that he finds them overpowered and told you to roll one to save you the humiliation of being raped by one in PvP.

In either case, he's a nub and you should play whatever you want to play. Rogues do have an easy time against Warlocks, but they get slaughtered by a lot of other classes.

As for profession, I recommend mining and disenchanting. Disenchant the green stuff you get from quest rewards and drops, that you can't use or sell on auction. Sell the dust and shards you get and the bars you get from mining and smelting ore. Once you reach level 70, switch mining to tailoring and grind it up to 300+ so you can make your Shadow's Embrace which will last you well into raiding.

Lock with Enough HP, Good Resilience and SL/SL Build can Stand up against a Rogue long enough for someone else to knock something out.

Rogues rely almost entirely on Crits for their Burst damage, and have numerous ways around Fear. Those are their strengths. So negate their Crits (Resilience) and don't even bother with Fear.

Rogue is not a n00b class neccesarily, just as Warlock isn't. Both are reguarded as "cheap" by many other classes but in the end if you just look at the strengths and weaknesses you can take care of a Rogue.

Don't PVP with 8khp and you'll be fine XD

The real culprit here is Warriors... friggin bastards. And that's what Ice Mages are for.

I have a few friends that are pretty bad *** locks, though they may not be top of the line over all they definitely have learned their class inside out and impress me (not that it's saying much) but all of them have told me not to bother with lock if I want to completely demolish people, and I can guarantee it's because rogue is the hardest class for each of them to fight. Locks played well can take out rogues, it's not gonna be an OMGROFLMAOWTFZPWNZOR win but it'll be a win nonetheless

Edit: I agree with what's already been said, play what you want to play and think you'll have fun with...but also don't be like me and have so many alts you can't afford to fly anymore >.>

Edited, Mar 24th 2008 6:03pm by Tokijinn

They certainly arn't. Where many other classes at least have the OPTION to increase defensive abilities versus a Lock, Rogues are stuck with a few general abilities and that's it.

Their main Defense is their Offense, which happens to be against a single target. They are helplessly defenseless against numbers (even if they get a Sap -- lolol -- off they cannot take down an equally geared person in time to make it 2 1v1 situations).

You're looking at a class that, when encountered by 2 opponents, has the option to try to take out 1 before they die (not possible if both players are experienced) or run which doesn't work so well in organized PVP.

I am NOT Rogue sympathetic, it's just funny to me how people complain about a class that is still lacking in the high-end PVP bracket, is EXTREMELY gear dependant in PVE, and is far from a button-mashing class in general.

As a Lock I've come to find that an experienced and geared Rogue is not nearly as troublesome as a similarly experienced and geared Warrior. Don't even get me started on a good Druid (which actually IS an overpowered class in organized PVP.)

My answer to the OP. Play whatever class apeals to you. Dont let your choice of class be influenced by people that arent paying for your game. If someone is actually telling you PLAY THIS CLASS, OR I WONT PAY FOR YOUR GAME. Well sucks to be you.

Play the class that appeals to you, play the race that appeals to you, each and every class has its plusses and drawbacks. Every Class QQ's about at least one other class.

Is any one class vs ALL the other classes singularly OP? No.
Is any ond class vs ALL the other classes pure suck? No.

It all comes down to: Do you have fun with your class? Do you understand its limitations, and its strengths?

Play the Class that most appeals to you, Its prolly the class you will have the perserverance to see to end game.

After all, noone plays a toon they dont like long, even if everyone else says they are OP or UP.

You simply will not excell at a toon that doesnt appeal to you.

Dont be a go with peer pressure type, Be a "I'm gonna play the class of MY choice type, and then learn to play it to the best of your abilities.

As a warlock, i have never really had much difficulty with any class except the occassional rogue.

It's incredibly annoying when your ganged by two rogue's and stunlocked to death, but that's a risk that comes with playing any caster class i guess.

I usually keep my vw or succy out in PvP,an extra OH SHI- button never hurt, if Howl of Terror isn't on cooldown, or deathcoil, ill use either of them just to get them away from me,amp curse if it's up CoE.
Dot it and run far enough away to get a fear up.

After recent improvements to my pvp set and now I don't really have a problem with rogues, just be sure to get Siphon Life>CoA>Corruption>(Immolate(after fear)) then just drain him as the warlock will spin to face the target as long as its still draining, shadowbolt if you get the nightfall proc, deathcoil/shadowbolt then drain somemore.

lol... on my rogue, a lock was a guaranteed kill, but the thing locks don't see is the rogue getting destroyed afterwards because once they're visible, all dps classes will focus fire them to death.

Another thing about warlocks is that you
can continue to be helpful in BG's and
against instance bosses even after death for a short
period, due to some of the longer duration curses.