Before we begin, I would like to give you, the reader, some information about myself and my views on the Warlock class - becasue I believe that you should be well informed as to the lense with which I choose to view the debate at hand.

I will come right out and admit that, I am biased in my opinions of Warlocks - I feel they are overpowered, and I have an agenda to support that argument with testing, writing, and debate. To not admitt that I have a goal, would be dishonest, and easily transparent given the tone of my writings. This website not a case study for the sheer joy of analyzing the class - this an agenda driven work, that is intended to provide support and factual information to back up my opinion that the Warlock class is far to strong in it's current inception. The fact that I have an agenda, however, does not negate the vailidity of my testing - as it is both repeatable, verifyable, and all logs are made aviable to the reader, so that they may analyze them, and come to their own interpertations/conclusions.

I ask this of those who would try to dismiss my work based on my biases - how many people in this world, are completely free of bias? The answer to that, would of course, be very very few. I can say that I do not know of anyone free of bias in my personal life - maybe there are some individuals who truely are neutral - but it's nobody I have ever met. Perhaps a few enlightened monks huddled in a remote part of Tibet?

Which begs the question, becasue most (if not all) people have some sort of bias, should all information and/or testing anyone wishes to produce be disregarded out of hand?

Of course not - even a researcher testing for a new drug has a result he "wants" while he goes about his painstaking studies. Just becasue this scientist hopes to find the next super drug, does not mean his opinions, reports, and research is invalidated - so long as his testing is repeatable, and all of his documentation is clearly presented, bias is not the death-knell of a debate that some people would like to pretend it is. (Primarilty those who disagree with my positions).

So, I am honest and upfront about my biases - which allows a reader to keep that in mind while pursuing anything I happen to publish. But, I feel the information I have is legitimate, and the logs will speak for themselves. In all cases where I use chat logged information to support a thesis, the origional un-edited game log files are linked, and highly visible - allowing interested parties to present their own opinions and interpertations of the material.

I have every bit of faith, that my logs will be combed over by various interested (hostile) parties to the most tiney detail, and, I am equally certain that, if I did try to alter or distort these logs in any way, it would be pointed out to the masses. Additionally, with a goal of actually helping to fix the class, doctored of falsified logs would not pass the most importnant test of all - the test to the mythic developers. These are not stupid people - they know their code - and I have faith they would spot doctored numbers in a heartbeat.

The debate at hand, is not about falsifying logs to skew data - the developers know what they coded and would not be fooled - this story is one of convincing people that warlocks are, in many situations, too powerful, and using logged information to support this argument. I do not need to fabricate anything, nor would the developers be moved (or fooled) by such a facaude. I simply need to present the class as it already exists, and a solid argument as to why I feel the Warlock is too potent.

So, yes, we all have our biases. I am upfront about mine to you, the reader - which is more than I can say for the majority of the players in this current stratagam. I am not some pompous network news journalist, pretending to be some paragon of nilistic non-partisanship. I DO have my beliefs - just like the overwhelming majority of people in this discussion have their own opinions about the warlock class. I intend to use solid, repeatable information, to support my ascertations. I will not - nor could I get away with - presenting false information, and anyone suggesting otherwise, is at once being disingenious, and underestimating how quickly falseified information would be discredited - both by the community, and by the Mythic Developers.