Glyc you have to realize the Warlocks got their "talent review" early on. Right after release they were one of the most mucked-with classes because Blizz has never figured out their direction with them. Our last talent review was 1.8 I think, and the changed Deathcoil and moved around the Demon tree a bit to make it viable. The destro tree is fine generally, but the Affliction tree sucks and needs real work.
All told the 3 Lock talent trees have 17, yes 17, talents that no one who knows anything about the game would ever take. 17 pieces of absolute trash. It's absurd, really.
Spirit, I don't have nearly the gear you have. I'm sitting on 7/8 Tier 1, with the ZHC and some other good damage gear from ZG/AQ20 -- about +400 damage roughly, depending on what gear set I use. I run through fights about like you do, and my healers know very well how to work with Locks -- I've no lack of renews if I want to lifetap.
Last night was typical. It was our "off nite" but we had to pick up some fights we didn't do on Tues/Wed -- namely Ossy and Jindo. Between Ossy in AQ (no repops except for the Anubis) and a Jindo run in ZG, I was 6th in DPS. That's about where I typically fall -- just out of the top 25%. I was above some mages, below others. Our main tank recently respecced Fury so he's jumped way up on DPS.
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