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Warlock Leveling Guide
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Warlock General Information
This Warlock Leveling Guide provides some quick tips on how to play your warlock and selecting where to put your talent points until level 40. If you're looking for something more detailed click here.
If you want to level as QUICKLY as possible you MUST check out this Alliance Leveling Guide or this Horde Leveling Guide. These are the best in their class step-by-step instructions with maps on how to level to 70 in less than 10 days of playtime.
Probably the most feared class to end up against in a 1v1 PvP fight is a Warlock. If you forget about chain fear, their high damage over time spells, and potential to get an insane amount of hit points you are still left with their Felguard (against level 50 plus warlocks). The Felguard is the most dangerous pet in the game. It’s basically like a mini-warrior, it will intercept stun, cleave, put out a lot of DPS, and is able to tank extremely difficult mobs. Demonology is probably the best leveling build for the warlock but I will cover all of the sections.
Afflliction
Ever start a fight with a Warlock, end up running away, and think you’re safe when you’re out of sight? Then you notice you have 2-4 more icons added to your buff window and your health is falling fast. You try to bandage in between ticks, use potions, and even eat food when you leave combat, but none of it seems to be working. This was the working of a warlock heavily talented in Affliction. Even on my rogue I’ve beaten these Warlocks down easily only to have me die from DoTs shortly after they do and then they soulstone back in and mock me. Here is what I’d use to level.
10-14: Improved Corruption 5/5
15-16: Improved Life Tap 2/2
17-18: Soul Siphon 2/2
19: Improved Drain Soul 1/2
20-21: Improved Curse of Agony 2/2
22: Improved Drain Soul 2/2
23-24: Fel Concentration 2/5
25-26: Grim Reach 2/2
27-29: Empowered Corruption 3/3
30: Siphon Life
You will know where to place your talents in the Affliction tree at this level and what’s working for you and what’s not. Contagion and Unstable Affliction are some of the warlock talents you want to make sure you get.
Destruction
The Destruction talent tree focuses mostly on increasing your single target damage spells. I’ve seen Warlocks crit really hard with Shadowbolt so there are definitely benefits to using this ability in PvP. In PvE, the mobs you are fighting will be taken down so fast that you won’t have to fear kite as much. Here is what I’d do.
10-14: Improved Shadow Bolt 5/5
14-19: Bane 5/5
20: Shadowburn 1/1
21-24: Devastation 4/5
25-26: Destructive Reach 2/2
27-28: Intensity 2/2
29: Devastation 5/5
30: Ruin 1/1
Continue increasing your ability to cause high damage with your single target spells and adding in any of the talents that could help you land those spells on the way. Conflagrate and Shadowfury are important talents to get.
Demonology
Enhancing your Warlock’s pet is considered to generally be the best way to level. The Demonology tree gives you the option to increase the health, damage, and abilities of your pets. Instead of relying on just yourself completely, upgrading through this tree will allow you to balance the total DPS output so that enemies won’t just be able to ignore your pet.
10-11: Improved Healthstone 2/2
12-14: Demonic Embrace 3/5
15-16: Improved Health Funnel 2/2
17-19: Improved Voidwalker 3/5
20: Fel Domination 1/1
21-23: Fel Stamina 3/3
24: Improved Voidwalker 4/5
25-26: Master Summoner 2/2
27-29: Unholy Power 3/5
30: Demonic Sacrifice 1/1
Keep increasing your pets abilities and work your way toward Summon Felguard, I promise you won’t be upset when you make it to the end result. With Felguard your warlock will be deadly in PvP and PvE, unless you just plain suck.
When you think of felguard,
When you think of felguard, think low dps and a high reliability on a pet that won't do much good in end game.
Yep I'm a noob but could
Yep I'm a noob but could someone explain the number sequence and what it means?
Thanks,
Falandor of Hydraxis
uninformed tool----??
uninformed tool----??
/point
/rofl
now that is funny- but he's right, my lock is sl/sl and with the new 80 talent tree today not the 24/37 we all knew- its this build:
22-11-28 starting at 70 and then going to ultimate 32-11-28- its the unkillable lock. with the addition of netherprotection (ALL SCHOOLS OF MAGIC NOW GUYS) this makes the sl/sl/nether lock a truely pvp/all purpose machine. Now- if you raid mostly and don't like sneaking ppl enjoying their daddy's toon somewhere in terrokar forrest- then this build is not best for you. However you can raid with it as well as never lose one on one and have a good chance against as many as 3 as long as no healer involved. Also, to the tool/felguard comment. I kinda agree b/c the felguard, while cool and bad and all that crap, is not as useful to the lock as a felhunter. With proper macros you can dispell sheep, other fears, other dots and with the additional use of shadow ward you should never lose to any shadow school including another lock, assuming you can out play him. As to that- agon, corr, siphon, fear, drain life--searing pain if spellcast 1/2 procs drain, drain ((at any point during that process when u see ur opponent cast fear SPELL LOCK)) if see it again - DEATH COIL- you should have a decisive advantage by that time your 3/4 health his should be under 1/2 if you out played him. Don't forget to have that macro to dispell his curses and dont dispell them untill you've feared him, remember they don't really hurt untill about 6-7 seconds.
I hope any or all of this helps- happy hunting!
Roguetrader- iLLidan "Where we take PvP to another level"
Obviously an uninformed tool
Obviously an uninformed tool wrote this if all they can praise is the felguard
If you think of Destruction,
If you think of Destruction, reroll as Mage.
If you think of Warlock, think of AFFLICTION.
If you think of Warlock,
If you think of Warlock, think of DESTRUCTION.
Key word being Good warlock
Key word being Good warlock
Yeah honestly, jump off
Yeah honestly, jump off Felguards. Just because you are for some reason madly in love with them don't pass it on to people who ACTUALLY want to learn to play a good warlock.
Warlocks and felguards?
When you think of Warlock, think Felguard.
That comment is pure fail.