No balancing before raids

[Jaman]

There's a really good reason why the warlock playerbase has shrunk to the smallest in the entire game, the second least popular class is Monk...and twice as many people play monks as warlocks lololol

Correlation <> Causality

Warlocks have always been one of the least played classes in the game, even when they were a strong class.

[Deleted]

There's certainly some correlation between Warlocks going from below average to absolute bottom in representation and the debilitated state Warlocks are in.

[Baconeggcheese]

There's a really good reason why the warlock playerbase has shrunk to the smallest in the entire game

Reasons*

Fotm rerollers rerolling, additional rerolling due to hyperbole surrounding the state of the class, literally everything being overhauled on every class so potential to not like new lock mechanics and / or absolutely love a different classes new mechanics, warlocks having literally always been one of if not thee most underrepresented class outside of very specific time frames. etc etc

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But that's true of all classes, why aren't people getting fed up with the changes to their mages and hunters are rerolling to locks?

Coyld it be...playing a warlock is like squeezing blood from a stone?

[Zzyzz]

NoobistTV-Metro is either a troll or living behind the moon if he thinks warlocks (no matter the specc) are competitive.

When in doubt, go with your first instinct.

[ShankzuLa]

Something need to be done because right now we're the least played class in WoW

[mistahwilshire]

Reasons*

Fotm rerollers rerolling, additional rerolling due to hyperbole surrounding the state of the class, literally everything being overhauled on every class so potential to not like new lock mechanics and / or absolutely love a different classes new mechanics, warlocks having literally always been one of if not thee most underrepresented class outside of very specific time frames. etc etc

All the MoP rerollers from the snapshotting crisis are finally moving on.

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But that's true of all classes, why aren't people getting fed up with the changes to their mages and hunters are rerolling to locks?

Coyld it be...playing a warlock is like squeezing blood from a stone?

Anecdotal but I was a Hunter for 11 years and rerolled after what Blizz did to them.

Mages didn't really change. They never really do. By far the most stable class in WoW.