Instance groupingFollow

Is it true that warlocks are just a specialty class and have a hard time finding our way into an instance group?

Nope.

If you are having a hard time finding your way into groups, try to figure out why.

Are you too shy?

If you don't speak up fast enough, someone else may get chosen instead of you.

If you aren't confident in dealing with people, others may see it as not being confident in your abilities to deal with mobs.

Do you have a bad reputation?

In prior instances did you ninja loot?

Did you run off and do your own thing instead of stay with the group?

Did you grab aggro from the tank?

Did you ever dump aggro onto a healer?

Do you complain that a healer favors the tank over your clothy ***?

Do you complain if you lose rolls for BoE loot?

Do you complain if someone else who can use a piece of loot gets it instead of you?

Do you play like you are just learning the class?

Have you ever griefed "just for the hell of it!"?

Have you ever been put on someone's ignore list?

Have you ever been warned or suspended by Blizz?

etc. etc. etc. There are many, many more reasons to have a bad rep.

Also, remember that you are a DPSer, and that DPSers are easy to find. To the quick and the confident go the invites. Be a bit outgoing and don't ***** the pooch (e.g. do something to give yourself a bad rep) and you should be OK in getting into instance runs.

Lets look at a list of instances (with heroic difficulty) where a lock can use some of it's skills, or where CC is not really a huge factor

Let's start off with instances with several demon/elemental mobs.

Mech, Bot, Underbog, and MGT all fall into this category. Technically SV does also, but most people will skip the elementals and the only one you need to worry about are the ones at the first boss.

Now let's look at instances that don't require a lot of CC.

Black Morass, Arc, Blood Furnace (except for that event), and Ramparts all fall into this category. You can put Crypts here also, but those non elite adds can be quite a pain.

Now let's look at the remaining instances.

Slave Pens, Shatterd Halls, Sethk halls, Shadow Lab, Durnhold, and Mana Tombs.
Honestly Slave Pens is really easy and most random groups should be able to do it. The other instances are pretty CC heavy. I'll be honest though when I say that no one likes doing SethK halls, SL, Durnhold, or Mana Tombs. Most people consider them to be too long for the badges.

So in the end, you should easily get groups for instances that people want to do, but you might have more trouble getting into the ones people don't generally do.

LF Warlock H MgT
LF Warlock Mech
LF Warlock <raid pug>

Never a LF Hunter. Never a LF Rogue. Rofl at LF Ret Pally.

Warlocks shouldn't have much trouble getting into a group. The only DPS class I see more calls for is mages. A lot of people on my server have a thing for sheep.

Personally, my paladin tank never asks for a mage unless they have Polymorph: Turtle. I'll take Seed of Corruption over a sheep any day.

Holy Crap! Mike I never knew that I had to stop ******** the pooch! Why has no one ever told me this before...?

No. The only reason you'd have a problem is: They want a specific class/CC (if you're good, you can be an effective CC as a warlock) and/or you have a bad reputation among players (chek aut mai ninja'd purplz gais!).