I waited for a few days as I was hoping for more responses. most replies here are about other OP classes and that's great, it just goes to show how underpowered Warlocks are. also before anyone uploads more videos of powerful warlocks from other servers, let's remember that those warlocks have different gears and are MVP carded. also the matk calculations used in other servers are different. in iRO we have a ^%$#ed up team that hates Warlocks because when he was playing as a Ranger in PVP he got owned by a Warlock, thus from that day onwards he vowed to do all in his power to nerf the Wizard class. I want to thank those of you who took time to contribute to this thread and hopefully it grows with useful information and if deemed necessary, let us unite our voice to petition for WLs return as a DPS class and not just stasis and freeze in WOE. unless you are MVP carded like Haseo. before the 175 cap came in I was doing quite well on my 150 WL which was one shotting others using TV, which btw has crazy long cooldown and long cast time, and it's not affected by base level I have two Warlocks, one is 152 and the other is 175, and TV on both of them deal around the same damage(same gears). the 175 has slightly higher damage, a few k difference really, not even 10k difference, due to higher stats. so yea, WLs are even worse off than they were before the 175 cap.
sorry if this rambling sounds off topic from the original intended post which focused on gears. once again, thank you for your time and contributions.