I’m currently playing a warlock in hardcore classic and one thing I’ve noticed is that they put our trainers in basements. Usually under a tavern, surrounded by kegs of beer. Why do they put us in basements and mages get stone towers?
Because with the exception of Undead perhaps (warlock trainer is on the upper floor in Brill with the mage), Azeroth races don’t look very kindly at fel magic a few years after the legion invasion.
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Ah, but they allow us to die in service of the factions all the same.
True but in the vanilla game the role of the player characters feels very much like that of mercenaries, as they are called on for help when the official authorities can’t or won’t act overtly (the whole storyline around the early human zones being left to themselves to defend against threats, the covert operation for Thrall in Skull Rock / RFC, the rescue operations in Blackrock Depths, etc. are good examples) . The AQ war effort is perhaps a turning point here and in the expansions it switches clearly from “adventurer” to “champion / hero / emissary” of your faction.
The factions have warlocks in their own service tho. You mentioned the undead as the only place where the warlocks aren’t hiding in basements. Those warlocks in the factions die too. What about them? They’re meant to be stuck in smelly, damp basements? While Mages sit in their comfy towers and enjoy their mana biscuits? No I won’t believe that is okay.
Warlocks are in the service of the factions and die just to be treated like dirt.
In the current WOTLK patch Tirion’s comments after the Jaraxxus fight, that it should serve as a warning about practicing demonic magic, feels very funny given how popular warlocks are as a raid class.
It’s purely because nobody trusts warlocks, some of the warlocks in Orgrimmar are Burning Blade cultists that think Thrall doesn’t know that they still serve the Legion.
Demonic power quite literally corrupts those that use it, eventually turning into demons themselves if used long enough.
When the Burning Legion invades Azeroth, enslaves the Orcs and you see your family gutted by legion cultists and their souls sacrificed to empower said cultists, you won’t trust ANY warlock ever, they should be happy they aren’t killed on sight, the only reason they’re tolerated is because the Horde and Alliance need everybody they can get.
To make it very simple, everyone on the planet views what they do as evil, disgusting and dangerous and don’t want to interact with them unless it’s absolutely needed, they’re shunned in polite society outside of the Forsaken due to their own lack of morals.
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I mean if you put it that way, I guess.
Because warlocks are antithetical to the alliance.
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Yes. This was the case for the US in WW1 and WW2 as well. It tracks with human behavior.
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Warlocks, unite! March for your rights!
Seems like the right place for 'em
Basements are warlocks’ natural habitats.
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they choose to be there, and despite gameplay its not as if where an npc rests is where it is supposed to spend its life. The mage tower thing is probably just a nod over power between mages, the one who built their tower above a greater/more stable form of ley line activity gets the greatest nod.
On the contrary I’d think warlocks being underneath represents their desire to not be apart of that sort of behaviour mentioned above. Usually basements / backdoors are the most fun places at establishments, they’re probably trying to get away from the crowd that gets excited by loud noises.
It really makes zero sense from a lore perspective that either faction would allow warlocks to exist.
The orc faction led by Thrall hates them for destroying draenor and corrupting the orcs. The taurens obviously hate demonic magic. The undead hate the scourge and legion that created them.
The humans of stormwind hate them because the legion/scourge just destroyed lordaeron and half the world. The night elves have been enemies of the legion for thousands of years.
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You don’t have the mind of a warlock. Do you think the aesthetics of this world matter? To a warlock, you have to embrace that which is immaterial. A stone tower is no different than a basement when you consider the Twisting Nether, and power–and the pleasure thereof–is more valued.
Only on Alliance. Fel magic is frowned upon bro. But on Horde, Warlocks are up front and inside buildings.
if you want something to complain about…
why are warriors ‘war’ but warlocks are ‘lock’ ?
why arent warlocks the ‘war’ and warriors ‘rior’ ?
Except all of that gear you fight for. 
Warlocks don’t fight for gear mostly. They just get all their tier for free.