WoW Insider Show Episode 27: Impressing class leads and improving Lifetap
by Mike Schramm 
Mar 4th 2008 at 2:30PM
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- We hit up reader email as usual, including whether the game is more "carebear" than it used to be, whether Blizzard should update pre-60 quests, and exactly how you can impress your guild's officers and class leads
- We chatted about the Warlock's Lifetap nerf and what it means for the rest of the game
- Does it matter to us exactly what classes the CMs or the devs play?
- And we had a small bit of commentary about the results of our patch 2.4 guess contest
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Filed under: Warlock, Analysis / Opinion, PvP, WoW Insider Show
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Silvertusk Mar 4th 2008 3:31PM
The lifetap change is fine; however, it should be implimented alongside proper gear changes for PVE. In PVE, warlocks have abnormally large amounts of stam on all their gear.
imparush Mar 4th 2008 4:42PM
so you say warlock get no sta and int instead, yeah... and do we also get iceblock and slow spell so we have a chance against mele?
Djinn Mar 4th 2008 6:51PM
I am pretty much ready to delete my warlock over this and roll a hunter...
deadcheeze Mar 5th 2008 12:20AM
I can't do that now... I put so much time in between work, and school, that to level up anouther charicter to the outlands would take me months.
I basic took all the quest gear that I might have disenchanted because it was mage gear, and wore it. My level 63 warlock when from 7 k health & 4 K mana ratio to 5 k health & 6 k mana. My Spirt is now vastly inproved by the mage Gear, so I can recharge quickly without water or life tapping.
On top of that, i almost doubled my spell dammage and Spell crit # so Im even doing more dammage then ever. I went from 800 dammage on a crit shadow bolt to over a 1000, and around 650 on avrage SB. I know that at the top end this is not going to work out just as happily... but equipment changes hopefully will be on there way in... and in case blizzard does anouther about face, Im not going to snear at stamina gear eather.
Mats Mar 5th 2008 2:19PM
I don't see whats so hard in pugging karazhan, I do so on a weekly basis, and we usually clear that place (and down all bosses, not counting basement) in 3.5-4hours time.
RC Apr 29th 2008 2:18PM
For those wondering why the warrior was upset about getting ripped on a tanking trinket is that as Prot Wars, all we can do is tank. While some people have the time to make enough money to persistently respec, many don't. The mage gets to operate equally as well for PvP and 5 and 10 man content. Prot Wars have one role. We don't get to run over and PvP without considerable cost, our dedication is to the group/raid. What really pisses us off is that our worth is completely determined by our gear. DPSers and even healers to a degree, are given much more lenience in gear. So, when there is a valuable piece of tanking gear, its important to us to maintain and increase our viability. That's why we get pissed. I would love for Blizz to reduce our dependency on gear. I really do, but until they change that, gear is paramount to us.