So it's bad because of a lack of offensive variety?

Unless you like floating in midair where vandals can easily snipe you, yes.

I gotta disagree on builds. On a lack of offensive versatility maybe you have a point. But build diversity nah. Sunbracers / Boots of the Assembler.

FUN FACT! Solar grenades from sunbracers don’t stack damage on the same target, making sunbracers only really good for ad clear! Why? Because -blam!- warlocks, that’s why!

"On a lack of offensive versatility maybe you have a point" I hate repeating myself.

You literally specified sunbracers as one of the offensive options available to Solar warlocks, hence why I made my comment

[quote]You literally specified sunbracers as one of the offensive options available to Solar warlocks, hence why I made my comment[/quote] I'll be pedantic. Offensive yes. To bosses no. That's the thing really I never expected Solar Warlock to be Offensive. I expected it to be more about buffing and healing.

Three builds is not diverse. Five to six is diverse. Of those three however which are not only made for gms but are actually usable in them without constantly dying or putting your team at risk

Mere examples. The main factor is people underestimate warlock viability and builds. They see the Arc "changes" and don't see the potential. The same story with solar.

Thing is the only new thing warlocks got was the melee. Nearly everything else is just what we had before but with a new name. There are four exotics for Arc warlocks: Crown of tempests, Getaway artist, Stormdancer's Brace and Geomag Stabilizers. Depending on what Bungie has changed about Chaos reach it may be dead on arrival. ( Bungie had nerfed 3.0 abilities prior to the subclasses launch. There is not Guarantee that a super as strong as that hasn't been altered in any way, the same is said for the others) I can see a nerf for Stormdancer's brace given that it refunds super energy and increases super damage per kill. In 3.0 it will be fairly oppressive in the right hands. Getaway artist will possibly have some changes given that we have arc soul as a fragment now. Crown of tempests if what we've all read on the announcement page is true will probably end up causing a stir in PvP. I spend most of my time in endgame and not things like strikes or patrols unless i'm raising my light in the early stages of the season if it doesn't work in endgame well then I throw it in to the trash and stick with what does work I know many who play are the same. If Bungie haven't got something up their sleeve with the boring 30 second Patrol arena's/lost sectors (that some players are tired of running to get new exotics) then Arc may end up with little use outside of season 18, Hopefully though Bungie give all 3.0's a look over with a fine tooth comb and iron out any remaining issues and then work them out on their way through to Lightfall.