I have some serious complaints about warlocks and all casters in general right now in arenas
Biggest issue of the class is that it relies heavily on teammates to stay alive in arenas.
Mobility is almost non-existent with gateway and portal having too big cooldowns compared to the melees who have infinite number of small cd charges, dashes, teleports, grips, sprints, slow immunity cooldowns etc
Regardless of the spec you play you’re always number 1 target for all the melee classes in the game and they will always have 100% uptime on you. They will stick to you like glue they will slow you stun you interrupt you and you won’t be able to do much except waiting in a stun for your teammates to save you.
You’re suppose to be a huge damage dealing hard cast class but you will never outdamage a melee dps in any arena unless they leave you to free cast which will never happen.
Youre forced to just play as a target dummy tank in the arena and hope your healer can keep up with the constant massive damage you’re taking.
You will be more of a melee than a caster since you will never really keep a distance between yourself and the enemy melee dpsers.
Destro seems to be the best option and the top players are hitting big rating but it’s mostly because players will just tunnel vision the warlock which allows the other dps member free to do big plays and hopefully win the game while you’re pressing your defensive cds and sit as a target dummy distraction the whole time. This can be a good thing if your teammate is good enough to pull out the win. But as for you, your job is to just run around the pillars and survive. Don’t even dream of using your damage rotation or chaos bolt, best thing you’ll be able to do is cast immolates and sometimes fears after a coil.
So yeah that’s not fun at all, it feels like a scam to play, you’re promised a dark wizard caster who casts spells from afar but you’re reduced to a kill target who teleports behind a pillar and spams some portals to do damage for him while he’s fighting to survive.
Warlock needs major rework on all 3 specs in my opinion and a lot more mobility. You can reduce damage from chaos bolt but give warlocks the ability to cast spells and keep distance from melee dpsers! That’s why we play warlocks, to cast spells on enemies, not to stay in one place and be trained the whole time. It’s so not fun to play and I’m sure a lot of players have the same issue with this class.
This or just reduce the ridiculous amount of mobility from all melee classes.