Problem with that chart of his is this:

This is what they expect the classes to have at that level for representation.

Someone did the numbers. They expect warriors to have around 3-4 times as many people as the paladins, shaman or druids in those brackets. How exactly is that balanced?

Is it based on number of people playing the class? If so the Hunter numbers were so far off as to be astronomical. They should be second to warriors if it is the general numbers, or first. So that can't be it.

It is based on what the devs think should be there. It's an arbitrary number.

Heck, look at the numbers for shaman. In 2v, they want the shaman to be around 4% of the competitors. This after he said he wants enhance to be competitive in that bracket. How did I get that number? Currently they sit at around 2% and they are around 50% of what they want. So is it based on class?
Hell, look at the warrior numbers on that chart. in 3v they are less than 100% and are over 20% of the total in that bracket.
So they want 1 out of every 4 people in a 3v to be a warrior. Meanwhile in the same group Hunters would be 6% and that would be fine.

All Kalgan did with that post was show the devs are a bunch of tools.

It was mostly meant as a joke, Angus.

Than expected? Who cares what is expected.

You sound as though you want Holy Priest and Prot Warrior to have equal standing with the others in PvP.

I think they set the arena druid/warrior win combo to combat the PVE complaint of not enough tanks and healers. "Hey, if we make druid/warrior the most awsome 2v combo out there we will get more people to roll druids and warriors. I say we go with that approach to get all the QQ'rs to shut it."

Granted, this has little to do with locks.

/coat

If you only leveled a warlock to level 17 you sir know nothing about warlock difficulty. Go raise one to 70 and juggle multiple crowd control abilities, macros for cc banish and fear just to make them useful, dot rotations, curses to compliment party balance, one method of dumping aggro on a cooldown despite dots that can't be removed once applied, the lowest armor in the game, a primary defense ability that is countered at least once if not twice by every class and race and is on diminishing cooldowns and so many spells to keep track of that your whole keyboard becomes a map of hotkeys just if you want to access the full abilities you possess.

Wow, level 17, that means you had access to around 10% of the total amount of warlock abilities. I am sure your insight is fantastic and I suggest you start your own warlock blog and write down all the pro tips that you can think of, as I'm sure you got a full perspective on what the warlock class is about, and can inform us level 70 locks on how our class is supposed to be played.

"I don't like people choosing easy ways of achieving goals in life."

So, when you want bread, you make it from scratch and cook it in a wood burning oven? Go out and hunt for your own food whenever you want meat, then clean and dress it yourself and clothe yourself in the skins? Instead of driving anywhere, you walk there, no matter how far it is from your house? Might want to rethink your statement there.

I play a warlock as my main right now, but I also play a shaman some. The lock is 64, the shaman's 35, but honestly, the big difficulty in playing a shaman, at least at 35, is picking which totems to put down and when, and making sure to keep Earth Shock is reserve to cancel enemy spells. That's it. That's the whole thing. I'm sure it gets more involved as you level, but so does warlock. I'm not going to lie, I found 'lock to be pretty easy to level, but I also find shaman to be easy. There is, news flash, very little in this game that could be considered "hard," outside of high level content or trying to do something that the developers didn't intend, like soloing same-level instances. But playing one class vs. playing another? Any difference in difficulty is minimal. So get off your high horse, pal.

"Goals in life?" You understand this is a game. If your life goals deal with a game you have some deeper issues than your hate for Warlocks.

if they are easy play, why does not people who suck play it like you, why does allmost all warlocks know how to play the game, one of the big reason why they feel OP is because most of us are skilled player, and say a class there are not are easy play?

i thought it would be a massive pve buff too ( i dont play a warlock) instead of having to life tap several times to get mana back, you'd have to tap 3 times and get 75% of your mana... it seemed like you'd be lifetaping less than before and thus getting more dps on more quickly.

for pve, locks would also be able to have less life and still be able to life tap effectively, and for pve you dont need that much stamina (unbuffed) unless you're a tank

but people dont really like change and instead of learning how to make the best of it, see the positive side, and how to get used to the change they complained until the devs gave in

I disagree - if you have any warlock raid set pieces you end up with 10-11k stamina unbuffed, each tap was a huge burden on either your healer or drain life - one or the other.

Seems like on progression content I don't get to many heals...

It's trickier than you would imagine juggling the cooldowns on 4 dots (each with a different duration) and shadowbolt. The difference between managing it well and poorly is about 300dps.

I've played rogues and dps warriors, and I would say that the warlock is no easier than either of them.

It is a close-run contest, but I would disagree and say that Hunters are the better class because of their tracking, pet specs, and CC that stops mobs.

Warlocks don't have a stopping-CC (ofc besides Banish), and Fear is quite balanced in PvE, because there is the chance that a feared mob may run into adds.

However in PvP, especially in the Arenas, there is no such downside. IMO, they need to change Fear in some interesting way to reflect this. Having Fear broken on damage is like Mage Polymorph and would not be unique.

Maybe instead it should have more chance of being broken if the scared one runs into friendly players (recovery of morale).

My point is, it seems locks have the edge like -everywhere-! No fair! Nerf locks! (Except the ones running kara with me)

Kenney, why the hell do warlocks get to argue that it "is tricky to play the class"? Every class has it's in and outs and your bullshit holds no water as to why Warlocks are the dominant class in WoW atm.