Originally Posted by
Abacabb
I'm interested in your opinions about this:
Beginning of WoD - Warlock mechanic complaints regarding mostly talents (mainly destro)
Middle of WoD - Talents still messy (destro)
End of WoD - Talents still not improved nor mechanics (demo got the nerf, became a niche 1shot god in pvp - Destro became the annoying livelord I only ever trolled massive egotists with - Affliction was pretty ok, speedy and useful in pvp)
Beginning of Legion - Shock and almost global disgrace over the talent overhaul (basic spells are now talents, shadowfury has a cast time lol) - utter outrage everywhere, people working everyday trying to figure out the best way to play their specs and reporting baltent issues with slow and clunky (clunky as in unresponsive or slow to respond due to everything being on GCD) mechanics and being wholly ignored.
middle of legion - forums are pretty bare, close to no threads regarding mechanic issues and calls for improvement. Nowadays Warlocks are still not in the best of places mechanically speaking, but it seems as though the forums have calmed down because the numbers have been performing alright in PvE.
In PvP Warlocks (destro mainly) are not that useful or fun to play (clunky mechanics, poor fluidity and dated spell effects) yet the forums seem to only talk about getting the best numbers.
I'm interested in your opinions here but the trend is clear to me: Warlocks have left or re-rolled enmasse and the ones remaining have just accepted the state and are trying their best to have real fun (because even though you may identify as a warlock purist, I just bet you'd be able to have more fun with another class just because of the mechanics and convenient CC's).
What do you believe? I think we should still be calling out the devs on the poor gameplay of the class here and push for 7.2.5 to be the mainly Warlock mechanics improvement patch (amongst some other classes further down the alphabet).