Originally Posted by
Degn89
If the very very best your class / spec can perform is 70% of the very very best of another class / spec, then yes, you would have to play ALOT better than those specs to get equal numbers. I don't see how you can deny that.
Edit: I mean, if the very best of one spec was 10% of another spec, would you still be saying the same thing? I doubt it, and then my question is, at which point can you ignore this fact? 95% would be fine by me, 90% is not good, but 70% is just plain unacceptable in my opinion.
And no, logs can't tell us absolutely everything and show every single thing that is wrong, but they are still good indicators. And it is simply a fact from the current logs that all warlock specs are currently pretty far below some other specs.
That is also why we got some substantial buffs across the board, so really, you denying this point is just... Odd. Will the buffs be enough? Maybe, but I won't complain about buffs even if they are not enough. Will they fix all the design issues with warlocks at the moment? Nope, but hopefully 7.1 will. When I say design issues, I'm talking about survivability outside aff (Drain Life is massive, but a DPS loss for demo and destro), often not having an interrupt available due to talent choices / DPS loss, Soul Harvest as a talent, Demonology requiring absurd amounts of haste and still being very punishing after that, Affliction artifact traits, and so on. The list of objectively sound warlock design issues is long.