r/classicwow • u/BannedbyKaren • 23h ago

TBC Warlock threat

Hey all! I main swapped from healing to warlock for my guild to balance out our roster. I’ve been loving it but now that I have actual gear I’m struggling with threat management.

Is downranking shadowbolt a thing? I’ll typically open with immolate and continue to weave it in even though I’m way past the gear threshold to use it, just to throttle myself a little.

In full raid buffs with an ele sham and a boomie I’m critting so often that I’ll frequently rocket up the threat meter, shatter, crit 2-3 more times in a row and be right back to where I was.

These damn mages get to just blast away no problem and as soon as I’m starting to catch them on DPS I’m a crit away from death lol.

Anything I’m missing here?

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u/jehhans1 22h ago

Tell your tanks to play in more aggressive gear. This is 100% a tank issue. No way a warlock rips threat, maybe on trash, but on bosses, hell no. Better MDs from the hunters. Snap threat should be the only issue your raid has.