Yes I know we have Life tap but here me out.
As a warlock or affliction warlock your when tank pulls you should try put corruption on all targets
how much do think corruption at ranks this includes haunt, life drain. ua. corruption and agony take good guess
sometimes after every pull have use life tap until have no health left. that not enough to get full mana bar back. feel like lose lot dps cause the cost ooming life tapping
not mention tax putting curses on right targets
have not seen life siphons mana cost thou strong suggest not using this ability let alone how garbage it is
first off am not complaining that have life tap. im fine with that function but should be able handle am ok with my abilities eating lots of mana. but afflictions about dotting everying cursing everything if you can squeeze out shadow bolt
Its vanilla, try down ranking your dots, unless they go for their full duration a higher rank DoT is a waste of mana
you cant down rank haunt and ua but ya could do life drain and corruption
And haunt and UA is not really needed, on a pack in a dungeon the mobs are dead before you have gotten through putting up just corruption and agony on the entire pack I get that using Haunt and UA deals more damage but as a caster you have to make the choice about maximizing mana efficiency or damage
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Downranking your dps abilities? That can truly only be said by a warrior or a healer.
Never downrank you dps abilities, on aoe pulls use sh bolt volley.
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Multi dotting is not a noteworthy dps gain over just spamming shadow bolt volley 
multi doting is really worthless
urm dont know if you know this but as affliction warlocks thats what they do they curse they dot do lot alot of damage between haunt and nightfall shadowbolts
when comes single target I out dps pretty much everyone even sometimes beat a tank in threat by 2000 if dont watch myself
And mages down rank as well, atleast until really late game, you dont have infinite mana as any caster, if you dont want to just wand you down rank your spells so you can cast and trust me a caster that have mana beats a caster without mana in 100% of fights.
mages only downrank actual utility spells like frost bolt, in order to slow their target for free.
a mage downranking his actual damage spells? nah man.
They do at 60 in raids for sure, cant remember to what ranks but until they have tier 2 at least they did down rank every spell they cast unless the fights were short enough (we are not talking about speed clears but fairly normal clear times here)
ele shamans also downrank lightning bolt.
Downranking is useful for some dps classes yes… but warlock who has lifetap is not going to use that method because “oom” is not going to happen.
And before ppl start to argue that “saving mana and wasting less GCDs for lifetap is a dps increase” - no i did simulate different downranks of shadow bolts, it is a dps loss.
And simulations do not even consider that lifetap can be used while moving so in 50% of the time it is not even a wasted gcd because you had to move in that moment anyway
Logs or didn’t happen.
Since your story “you met your wife in WoW and the son you have together is 21 years old” even if the game is only 19 years old.
nobody will take anything you say serious anymore
I said that also, warlock spells cost too much mana. Someone who telling me “its vanilla” then why shadowform for priest have -50% mana cost ? I dont rememeber this from vanilla… Just tell sprest is better lock than lock, pets,3x more powerfull dots, heals, shadowform, mana cost, utility…
can i just point out that its pretty funny warlocks are complaining about mana issues?
use lifetap bro, you got infinite mana if there’s a healer in your group.
Well to be honest he is right…
But i am not gonna talk about pve because there is a way around it , on packs you can use Shadow bolt volley or Hellfire.
But on pvp as affliction yea you cant multidot enemies. After the second enemy u are oom and i am talkin abouy just using only agony and corruption, while sp can multi dot the whole raid with no mana issue and do x5 the dmg.
So yeah there is an issue there being a bit useless in large scale pvp cause u cant even go near them to use drainlife so u can lifetap.
Also as i said the dmg is meh…(afliction warlock, dont start talkin about chaos bolt and how op it is 
sure its good but there is no way u can cast it to som1 targetting you)