Warlock is becoming so boring to play... Demo and Destro are terrible and Affliction is alright/good but very boring. Affliction's damage is so spread out that you are pretty much just spreading tiny amounts of damage on everything and casting CC, waiting for your partners to get a kill. Often times the damage you spread doesn't even mean anything (like on a Rogue for example, Recup which they need for damage will easily heal through your dots).

It's like you're a S8 DK with the small amount of single target damage they had removed. All you are is Pestilenced diseases and utility like Fear/Tongues.

Affliction was so much more fun in Wrath where dots could do a meaningful amount of damage to a player. You could punish bad positioning. You could set up great swaps onto targets that had already taken real damage from dots. When you got 3 full sets of dots rolling on all 3 players it felt like it meant something, not like it is now where in 15 seconds they will all dip to 90% (ooh scary!).

Sadly, it seems to me that dots are so weak that often the best strategy is to only cast dots on one target and sit there like a moron spamming drain life on a fully dotted target. The best strategy for a lot of situations in PvP now is to just stand there and PvE. It was not like that in Wrath. When dots were powerful, yes you could help with a kill by spamming drain life or searing pain on it, but most of the time you were better off dotting the next target (and the next one) instead of standing there casting your pathetic nuke spells. Now if you try to do this your swap target is between 90-100% when you want to swap to them--you wasted your time, should have just been spamming drain life like an idiot.

Warlock control is pretty strong, UA fear and howl are quite good. Portal is amazing. Shadowflame is great. But the mechanisms by which all three Warlock specs do damage are terrible. Affliction is not horribly underpowered (but I wouldn't say its very strong either, probably overrated) but it is extremely boring to play. Demo and Destro are horribly underpowered--they both get owned far too hard by interrupts and dispels, and their damage isn't even very good ignoring those two crippling problems.
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