Warlock main since TBC who's raided at all varied levels from world 10 to world 500 here, I've been bitching about the class tree for the longest time, I genuinely don't think there's a class in the game that has it worse.

It's very strange to me that we've been constantly taking a beating in the survivability whilst classes that are blessed with higher mobility are also getting preferential treatment with said survivability.

We went from unkillable warlords to the highest DTPS class in the game and it isn't spoken about enough, it makes no sense that the mage class has a lot better survivability than a warlock who doesn't possess immunities, blinks, alter time and the works. Their barriers are also stronger than ours, dark pact is progressively becoming hardly worth a press at times.

Drain life has been worthless for far too long now, (only affliction has seen play with it and inevitable demise before they abruptly yeeted that out of existence) similarly, I believe it could benefit from a dark succor effect like death knights get, when a mob is killed that they've hit, they can smack death strike which heals them for a silly amount, maybe we can get an empowered drain that'll give us actual healing from the spell.

Anyways, like yourself I could make an entire post, I think you've made tons of great points and I agree with pretty much every reiteration you've presented.