When I see Fran say something like "I have 2 6th Life Mains" the first thing that occurs to me is that all 6 of those past lives were probably in the same class.  Because he is stupid like that.

I just don't understand how someone could play the game as long as he has and still be so bad at it, and be so ignorant about how the game actually works.

Rachel Maddow

The only notable thing about Fran is his stupidity and an irritating obsession with exclamation marks

To be  a ee soloer the main prereq is to be a utter asshole with no respect toward other human players

To be  a ee soloer the main prereq is to be a utter asshole with no respect toward other human players

FTFY

That's the issue with most of the people who wail about some change:  They don't know math, and therefore can't see that 3 is simply a larger number than 1.

When that basic fact escapes you there's no hope of you managing to balance anything at all, including a checkbook.

Look at the guy in the OP.  He makes a pile of assumptions about the class and then critiques the class based on his assumptions.

The Warlock was designed to do in melee exactly what it does:  Turtle up and let the blasts and aura kill stuff dead.  Making the assumption that it was intended to do significant, actual 'beat stuff with a pointy thing until it is dead' melee DPS is the failed assumption which causes the arrival at a failed conclusion.  And then the proposals for how to fix the class to do what it was never meant to do in the first place are also failures.

Look at his opening paragraph:
Aside from the fact that starting an argument with an "as we know" is presumptuous and treads close to being a logical fallacy, look at his list of things that "as we know" make Warlocks in the ES tree melee combatants:
"extra HPs, PRR, initially heals (now nerfed to just hamp), light damage on hit, passive eldritch burst (hence not needing to pew pew), AoE debuffs, and melee power."
Of that list only "damage on hit" and "melee power" actually apply.  The rest are present in piles of classes and enhance trees and destinies that are not intended to do melee damage.

Then he turns around and lets us know that he actually does know how the ES Lock plays best. 
But he just doesn't like it.

I'd respect an argument that began with that accurate summation of how the ES Lock is played and then delved into what he doesn't like about it and his suggestions for changes much more than the disingenuous "It's meant to work this way, so here's how to make it work that way" BS that he actually went with.

But in the end it's a pointless exercise, because Turbine isn't going to change the class or the enhance tree into some kind of "Does the same exact DPS overall, just in the way I'd prefer" pointless waste of their time.  They can't sell more of them just because they are different but just the same.  They already got their "initially OP" sales under their belts, and now they are just going to get trickle sales of VIP subs which give access to the class or TP purchases of access to the class.

Don't I give you guys enough ammunition without you needing to attack me for something I never said?

Don't I give you guys enough ammunition without you needing to attack me for something I never said?

The OP of that thread is not I!

My point was that Warlock is absolutely the last Class that needs a buff

1 Monk, 3 Fighter, Which would be your choice for next Life remembering he's going to end up as a Pure Wraps Monk?

If Paladin, How would you build a wraps Pally?

But I want my characters to remain the same characters throughout if at all possible.

I would also like my characters if at all possible to fight in the same way throughout each life

I have extreme difficulties with inventory as is and have filled 110 slots out of 110 in my Shared Bank and all available slots in my Character Banks on many characters.
I don't have space to fit in extra weapons just for a Pally Life when I could surely find a build that would allow me to stick with wraps?

What's wrong with Pally/Monk?