http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=27223

There's your instant fear. I should have said "instant horrify" (much better). I had no idea that there were instant fears in the beta. And yes, I know that I was throwing out a list of everything a warlock can have (though I don't see where I referenced the felguard specifically), because I was trying to highlight to the poster before me the irony in him complaining that a warlock can't do ONE thing when they have so many other abilities, in the light of which the inability to kite properly seems a bit petty.

A few more points of explanation: by the unremovable debuff I meant Unstable Affliction, which I concede CAN be safely removed by some classes, but then only on a CD. And btw, every lock I speak to seems to say that fear breaks all the time really easily ect ect. Maybe I just suck at the RNG factor, but apart from ice block I don't see that as being true - not against mages anyway. Two points about fear, which make it massively superior to sheep: You can damage through it, and it doesn't heal.

Your point about the whole rock-paper-scissors thing is valid, which is what I trying to point out in my post.

What I was objecting to was not the warlock class in general, but the nature of the post to which I was replying.