Warlocks and Cast Speed

ncvr · 09-28-2010, 10:00 AM

Warlocks actually do have the dmg of a warrior. Slightly less than barbs, but more than knights by quite a lot. Lightning regularly ticks for 200+, Ice blast around 100, and there's no way to reduce that dmg other than acrobatics/AoO or the knight aura that reduces magic dmg (which no one uses). Armour doesn't work because of the caution nerf and DoTs are only affected by 1/5 of your armour (so if you have 100 dmg mitigation from armour, you only mitigate 20 against DoTs). But you have so much more than that - you have much better CC options than anyone else in the game, plus you can drain someone's mana pretty well with mana burn + SS. On top of that, warlocks get less out of better gear than any other class with the cast speed scaling "nerf".

09-28-2010, 10:00 AM	#22
ncvr Marquis Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 2,439	Warlocks actually do have the dmg of a warrior. Slightly less than barbs, but more than knights by quite a lot. Lightning regularly ticks for 200+, Ice blast around 100, and there's no way to reduce that dmg other than acrobatics/AoO or the knight aura that reduces magic dmg (which no one uses). Armour doesn't work because of the caution nerf and DoTs are only affected by 1/5 of your armour (so if you have 100 dmg mitigation from armour, you only mitigate 20 against DoTs). But you have so much more than that - you have much better CC options than anyone else in the game, plus you can drain someone's mana pretty well with mana burn + SS. On top of that, warlocks get less out of better gear than any other class with the cast speed scaling "nerf".