Warlock has always been my favorite class, and I had a gnome and undead warlock in classic and TBC around 20 years ago. Warlocks in this stage were unstoppable.
I returned to play WoD and had a human warlock, but back then, melee interrupts and CCs were overtuned and warlocks were mushrooms.
When the pre-Legion patch hit, affliction was great again and could finally hold its own versus melee.
But then came nerf after nerf pre-Legion, and it was the reason why I quit for 8 years.
I came back in this expansion and was happy that affliction was finally in a good place again, able to hold themselves 1 vs 1 versus most classes. It had decent survivability, DoTs, single target damage, burst, utility, etc.
But then, after today’s soul harvester affliction nerfs, I’m convinced that Blizzard just wants to take the fun and suck the soul out of warlocks forever. There have been only nerfs in the last 4 rounds of patches.
It’s one of the main reasons why I quit in WoD’s pre-Legion patch.
I put in a lot of effort in my current warlock to get conquest gear, hoping to main it. Just today, I got my conquest chest and pants for PvP. Unfortunately, in seeing that there will only be future nerfs, it feels betraying to have invested so much time in this warlock character.
I will be maining this shadow priest and possibly doing some off-PvP on my mage and evoker - I don’t there’s anything good to look forward for affliction any further. Maybe I will level my hunter to 80 and PvP on it as well, but BM hunters just got nerfed today, which makes me question Blizzard’s sanity: it seems destined to nerf fun specs to oblivion: affliction (soul harvester + wither nerfs), augmentation evoker (Ebon might only gives 5% instead of 10% buffs now), hunter (BM nerfs), etc. I’m thinking that Frost mage will be hit hard next, which is also one of my level 80 characters.
I don’t know what Blizzard is up to: it’s causing players to spend a lot of time, heart, and effort into investing in some classes, only to get nerfs and realize it was a waste of time.
I will gamble with this shadow priest - they’re in bad shape, but at least, it’s better to play a class that is likely to receive buffs than a class that will only be nerfed non-stop.
EDIT: Oh yea, I bet they will nerf Disc priests, which is one of my favorite specs. If they keep nerfing the fun out of every class, I likely won’t play this expansion for long.