Gnomish Death Ray used to be able to Double Hit and Crit on both hits for upwards of 3-4k total, which at the time was a retarded amount of HP (lvl 60 w/greens had maybe 1.6k-2k hp?).

The period I level that warlock was between the time of the Death Coil Buff (which added the Horrify effect and reduced reuse to 2min) and the Gnomish Death Ray nerf (which lowered damage and eliminated the chance of a double hit).

Yes, pre-Death Coil buffs this would have been a different story. There were a lot of other problems with CC at that time which made Warlocks a free HK for any class in the early days of WoW.

Anyways....