After watching the recent PvP tournament, I'll just come out and say it. Fear is a stupid spell. Always has been. Let's call it what it is. A 10 second stun with 0 cooldown. You can say - but you have to cast it. To which I say - sure, and after you do, it's a 10 second stun with 0 cooldown. All caster classes need to cast their spells. Then you can say it has DR. To which I reply - exactly. What other hard CC can be spammed by a single character so much the only thing you have to worry about are diminishing returns? You can say - but damage can break it. Again, exactly. Can. When used in conjunction with dots, it won't happen with any regularity to matter. And all Warlocks do is dot.

Let's compare fear with other long CC. Polymorph? Long, no CD, but it heals the target to full. Frost trap? A pain in the ass to hit, any bit of damage breaks it, and 30 seconds CD. Roots? Target can still fight and do everything except move, and druids don't rely on dots nearly as much so their damage actually does break roots.

It's absolutely criminal damage doesn't immediately break fear. Especially since wow's expansions have that functionality. So why should Forever stick to the ridiculous Classic way when we already have a better one? There is no counterplay to fear unless you live in some fantasy land of infinite trinkets or the delusion of being able to stop a caster from casting forever. And worst of all, it's the kind of spell that makes one side simply not play the game. All you do is autorun as you die. Warlock is WoW's Blue Deck user and as anti-fun as a class can get.

Meanwhile Blizzard nerfs Penance just because it heals slightly too much within a week. GG.

I was already considering calling my druid Idont Healwarlocks on account of them being filthy life tap abusers. And the tournament only made me want to do it more.