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This progressive patch is a roller coaster ride; is Blizzard toying with our emotions? I can imagine the folks at Irvine playing WoW as a grand social experiment: "Let's put in this class-changing nerf and see how they respond, muahahahaha!" The Warlock community certainly responded, and the mood is somewhat settled, now that the Life Tap change has been rolled back and Kalgan has confirmed that "No other Warlock nerfs are planned for 2.4."
I do not see this as a "victory" for warlocks, as the change was uncalled for to start off with. A PvP-driven change to a class-defining mechanic that affects PvE more than PvP simply defies logic - although some insisted that it was a storm in a teacup. Without arguing (wow gold) how BIG this Life Tap change was really going to be, this episode brought one aspect of the WoW community into clear relief for me.
We are pretty much unanimous in calling for a trainable instant Corruption. At present, five points in Improved Corruption is simply mandatory for leveling Warlocks and others who want to include corruption in their spell rotation, making it probably the most common talent among Warlocks. Given that some 'essential' Mage spells like Evocation, instant Arcane Explosion and eventually Ice Block, have made the transition from talent to trainable, shouldn't this essential Warlock DoT be given some love too?
In our heart this is another pet topic close. A wealth of Warlocks, in particular our Demonology brethren, are calling for more durability and group utility for our pets. While pets are phenomenal for leveling, they quickly become a liability in raids and PvP for demonologists who rely on their pets more than the other specs. In a word, pets are not scaling to the increasingly powerful gear that their masters get at level 70, and thus become squishy relative to the mobs and opponents encountered at that level.
There are also calls for the Infernal and Doomguard to be elevated beyond 'party trick' status, and thankfully Blizzard has indicated that they will see some buffs in the future.
When Warlocks lost their exclusivity in terms of mounts post-BC, most of us feel somewhat cheated. We had to conform with the rest of the populace, and be content to ride the generic flying mounts when many of us had rolled the class to look cool on our fiery steeds. We're not asking for free or cheaper mounts, but let us quest for our class-specific flying mount like we did at level 60.
To make it a tough lore-laden quest, so the mount can be a proud badge of our commitment to the Warlock cabal! A flying demon dragon-like mount would be nice, or turn us into flying demons! And make these inaccessible to gnome Warlocks 'cos they'll simply look ridiculous.
As a whole Warlocks are also concerned about our class identity - we look too much like Mages, especially when we are casting our fire spells. If 'fel' mobs have Green Fire, why shouldn't we? Even our infernals and imps have Green Fire! Fel or demonic fire should simply be differentiated from elemental fire - it's gotta be Green!
