Ok so yesterday the first thing I did when I got home was to get on my lock (71) and run a reg UK to test out my UI and spec (destro). I was very pleased as I pulled 1100 dps and 31% of the total damage (beating a fresh 80 dk dps in the process) and replaced my first bc epic with the blue dagger off first boss. After this I healed H UK on my druid with a very good group save one person who got beat by the tank in dps. The ele shaman pulled about 2600 dps and the ret pally was doing well over 3k. However, the lock (demo specced) was only pulling 1000 on bosses...less than my lock of 9 levels lower was doing. Now I understand that my lock is fully epicced in t4/t5 with enchants and that this lock was a fresh 80 in mostly blues/crafted epics with no enchants. I also understand that destro is good in pve and demo is not the best choice for pve except with a very skilled player and good spec. However, we are talking about a 9 level difference! Any 80 should be able to pull at least 1.5k dps regardless of gear.
My point is, it seems that right now all locks are either really good or really bad. For example, I have seen two really good locks lately. One guy in my guild named Echoclaw does not have the best gear but he knows how to play and is always top 2 or 3 in dps no matter what we are raiding. Another lock on my server named Jasonn just recently got the Gladiator title last arena season. Yea that's right, a lock got the gladiator title. He is always dueling outside of Org and I have yet to see him lose. He is simply amazing. But then there are the bad locks...no idea of a rotation, never putting up soulstones, don't carry enough shards, have imp attack during boss fights and get killed in 5 seconds, don't give out healthstones, never use fire/spellstones, etc. I guess this is a QQ post, but whatever rate me down if it makes you feel better, I don't really care.