Quote Originally Posted by Maxion View Post
I was thinking more about before death coil was even put into the game, then again my main wasn't a warlock at the time, so maybe i'm mistaken and that there was no such time?
Warlock Fear was OP at the start. Then Fear was nerfed repeatedly until Warlocks had no chance against melee, you just couldn't get any distance. Free HK to a rogue if caught alone. This was what inspired the Roguecraft videos by Mute (however biased, one sided and flat out wrong in some cases).

Then came patch 1.8, the Death Coil patch and this was when Soul Link came along as well if I am not mistaken. They were re-balancing the classes 1 at a time back then and 1.8 was the Warlock's time.

EDIT: Death Coil was always in the game I think, in 1.8 it got the 2s Horror effect.