Mage/Warlock questions.

[Will]

8/10 Mages are viable. 8/10 Warlocks aren't viable. The players, not the class. If you know what you're doing, you'll do fine.



Warlock isn't played as pure DPS, it's played as support classes. Warlocks have excellent single target CC, great for returning flags with other players or supporting choke points where it takes one dps to kill your healer and make you lose control of the field. They also have modest aoe damage, one of the only classes in this bracket with this trait.



Frost Mages have great crowd control and escape measures for peeling or getting a flag to the base (shouldn't be used as a main flag carrier) and shutting down escort groups to set up a recap. Arcane mages can also be great single target DPS and Utility for shutting down healers.



It all depends on your play style, and the player in general. Both classes fair well in this bracket, Mage is the easier class to play correctly.



Edit:

Warlocks also get a bitchin' scythe.

 

[Sinex]

8/10 Mages are viable. 8/10 Warlocks aren't viable. The players, not the class. If you know what you're doing, you'll do fine.



Warlock isn't played as pure DPS, it's played as support classes. Warlocks have excellent single target CC, great for returning flags with other players or supporting choke points where it takes one dps to kill your healer and make you lose control of the field. They also have modest aoe damage, one of the only classes in this bracket with this trait.



Frost Mages have great crowd control and escape measures for peeling or getting a flag to the base (shouldn't be used as a main flag carrier) and shutting down escort groups to set up a recap. Arcane mages can also be great single target DPS and Utility for shutting down healers.



It all depends on your play style, and the player in general. Both classes fair well in this bracket, Mage is the easier class to play correctly.



Edit:

Warlocks also get a bitchin' scythe.

Thank you Will. This is where my thoughts stood pretty much.



And in light of this thread as well as everyone's awesome opinions, I did not roll warrior on AP, I went mage. I realize AGM is far off my chart, but maybe a dual dps trinket mage... I dunno. I never did get to ask one of the most asked questions EVER (which would be on the subject of race,) but I am okay with not asking. I will probably go either night elf or gnome, since I have multiple humans (hunter, mage, pally), a gnome (warrior, first ever f2p toon), and a dwarf (shaman.) I do have a 20 night elf druid but it is on the same server as the gnome warrior and we have pretty much sworn off of that server (old memories since our old guild is still around (though they are #3 server now, bleh.) and we are trying to avoid temptation to pay for the game.)



Sorry, rambling again. Looking forward to talking to some of you AP people. I will probably join in the chat earlier than I stated, but it'll still be a while.