the shadowflame rune is horrible 1 tick of hellfire does more damage and it is in the same spot as demonic knowledge easily one of our strongest runes. move it to waist and like triple its damage for it to be maybe useable. or just make it the slow version so its good in pvp.
The devs do not play warlocks and do not test anything around them (See STV pvp Event being unplayable for warlocks). Warlocks are an afterthought class for the SoD team.
It is clear that locks were abandoned. Not having a pet in blood moon is ridiculous. Shadow priest overwhelmingly being more powerful than a affliction lock is horrible.
Well shadow priest is so overtunned, their shadow spells double the lock spells:
SwD hits for double of shadowburn damage without soulshard requirements.
Void plague ticks for nearly 200 damage and corruption for 100.
Mind spike hits similar to shadow bolt but have the half of the cast and improve mind blast.
And they have huge cooldowns like homunculus and dispersion.
Want to hear more? they got the most ridiculous book rune this phase Shadowfiend, easily is better than a lot of other classes gear slot runes.
Can we talk about Soul Siphon too? Nobody will ever use Soul Siphon when Master Channeler is available. That said… Soul Siphon is a much better mechanic as it’s not mindless and OP and broken.
Also Demonic Grace being on GCD is super clunky and feels awful. Lower it to 4.5 seconds from 6 and remove it from GCD. Also it doesn’t make sense for it to be on GCD if our pet is required for the ability. Other pet abilities are on separate GCDs (pet internal). Additionally Demonic Grace + Dance of the Wicked are a great combo when timed, except your later crits lower your dodge once Demonic Grace wears off. You punish yourself by critting. This should also be looked in to.
So remove the pet requirement or remove the GCD IMO.
I usually don’t doom like this, but it seems kinda true. We couldn’t even use our mounts after dying cause it’s a spell. Instead of fixing it, they just added a run speed bonus to everyone (which was a good change btw). And yeah… still no pet.
Also our demons have been getting summoned with low HP this entire expansion… still not fixed.