Just because destro warlocks were kings in BFA s4 doesn’t mean that they were bad at other times. This is the first season I recall warlock being somewhere in the middle of the meta. I didn’t play in Legion or until the end of BFA, but pretty sure locks were great then too.
As you’re totally aware, it’s once in a blue moon that ret is in a good place and this is when the forums MELT. Blizzard will nerf us as usual, the game has been out for like a month at this point and the crying is at an all time high.
People like to focus on ret’s massive damage and healing within wings, but nobody wants to understand that in the state of the game, with everyone else’s class doing big damage and having big defensives, we’re pretty much on par with everyone else.
Folks just aren’t used to seeing ret be good, so their brains are smoothing out at record pace as they begin their trail of tears to the forums.
Ret is just as good as the next meta melee class, if it was truly so problematic we’d see as many rets on the boards as we see priests or warriors, and we definitely don’t.
It’s just the low CR 2’s bracket having a bonfire on these threads, with the occasional player getting dunked on at higher MMR. Literally every single class has big damage right now, this is the meta, it’s great.
I’ll take getting 1shot by an RMP/convoke/chain harvest/etc and having a chance to do the same right back over BFA S4 meta any day.