Re-check my post btw, the edited it extensively. I spelled out most of the changes to mages since TBC and pointed out the buffs and nerfs that most changed mage performance, mostly in PvP, though I think I might have noted by some PvE ones too.

At the guy who posted before you: I only played the first few weeks in S1 but I got the Duellist rank. I can't remember the rating I had but I know my warrior finished at 2k in S2, and only got Rival.

Messer. As I said, anti-classes can only be beaten when they make mistakes. The nature of a fight between a class and it's anti-class, is the anti-class leads the fight. Everything you do he can counter and everything he does you can't, usually. The only way to win these fights is to look for mistakes and exploit them.

Put plainly, you're not going to beat a warlock decked out in full vengeful, because he knows how to play and you're not going to get any chances gained from bad gear.

The important thing for fighting SL SL warlocks is to remember that you have 36 yard range on frostbolt, as does your pet. His fear is 20 yards, banish 30. I cannot remember if these are increased by the lock range talent Grim Reach - it says affliction spells.. I don't know if those two are affliction. Locking down their shadow tree is going to really help, especially if you catch banish (and fear, later) Say you got him sheeped, you move to 30+ yards and nuke him absolutely full out. He has to run into range, so save your Freeze for after the first 2-3 bolts (perhaps more if he's slow and you got icy veins up..). Once he gets near that 30 yard mark, use the nova. If he's in range to banish then you're in range to CS. After those 8 seconds of having no shadow tree a lot of locks panic and don't bother banishing the pet. :P

Having imp arc missiles helps, because you can cast this through a pet hitting you. Locks with Fel Concentration have a 70% chance to avoid interruption when channeling drain spells, and Arc Missiles is your highest-dps-slash-most-regular-hitting spell, at one bolt per second. It's your best chance at nullifying his drain life's effectiveness, also remember that AM without MSD is your 5sec mana regen mark.. every little helps, especially if you're casting AM more than usual! Casting this with MSD up is incredibly effective.

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