I had a 710-ish warlock when the pre-patch dropped. Typically top 3 dps in everything I run.
After the update I noticed some classes, like Ret Paladin just absolutely wrecking stuff… Literally 5 of us pounding on a boss mob slowly grinding down, along comes alliance ret pally and bam, down in seconds. It always seems like it’s a pally. I saw the same thing in Karesh, was grinding some rare down slowly but surely, pally comes along and vaporizes it.
Am I missing something? Are there some new items or something? Or are warlocks… and most classes completely untuned? Seems like the most poorly tuned this game has every been. Old zones where I’m doing achievements. In Karesh. In Undermine. In Heroic Manaforge. In timewalking. Nothing seems tuned right. Like… not even close feeling.
You should do your best to ignore balance and tuning at this stage. Unless something is seriously out of whack, Blizzard will keep it that way until a week or two into the actual expansion launch.
I would recommend reading the patch notes and what all they did. Stat squish means they need to rebalance, they are also pruning abilities, and have reworked almost every class. Not every class…almost.