Warlock main for 7 years.
Minus the mandatory Well of Radiance for most raid encounters (which probably needs a nerf for more build/encounter diversity), Warlock 3.0 subclasses have been gutted and lost a lot of their original identity (Devour, Benevolent Dawn, Guiding Flame, Healing Grenades, Arc Web, Storm Grenades, Ionic Traces, etc)
Child of the Old Gods and Lightning Surge are great but are the only additions with 3.0 that are new and unique.
A lot of what made the Warlock class unique was used to build the core 3.0 systems.
In comparison to other classes, there is very little that is still specialist at present.
High end PvP viability also appears to be statistically low.
There could be improvements made for greater diversity into class identity, outside of primarily sentient torrents (regardless of how cool they are, literally in Bleak Watchers case) and Well-locks.
Ideas for greater specialisation and class identity include:
Solar - Aerial Phoenix - Warlocks having a way to get radiant outside of melee, with all classes now able to fill the role of Guiding Flame, perhaps eating a grenade for Heat Rises also activates radiant. As well as, Touch of Flame Healing Grenades strongly seek targets, making Warlocks more specialist healers.
Arc - Becoming the Storm - With all classes now having access to Ionic Traces, Electrostatic Mind could also overcharge grenades and super damage or improve functionality similar to amplified base melees. This would be situational with a short window in PvP, but allow for more potency in PvE.
Void - Vampire - Devour cannot have its old functionality of eating a grenade anymore, as the activation would contradict the activation of the Chaos Accelerant aspect. However, Feed the Void is a downgrade to its previous activation. Secant Filaments help this but require an exotic slot and using Empowering Rift. Perhaps Secant Filaments could have a slow tracking Rift when the player moves that works within a 15 metre proximity from activation point, with Devour also activating on Healing Rift.
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Solar Warlocks, for PvE at least, need to fully lean into Scorch. The melee alone can be a pocket nuke, couple with Sunbracers grenade spam and Incandescent weapons to keep the Scorch spreading and your melee back quicker....