Warlock Basic

Well before I start, I wan ya'll to know that I'm juz writin what's in my head so there might not be any order to the guide.

Ok today I'm gonna talk abit bout Warlock in general. You get a new pet/minion every 10 levels.

You get a Imp at the start, Voidwalker (10), Succubus(20), Felhunter(30), Felsteed(40), Infernal(50), Doomguard(60)

As of now, I find that you can solo with any of the pets except Felhunter cuz its too weak but however it is a great pet in PvP especially against casters. The reason y I say Felhunter is weak/useless in PvE is because alot of times if you are fightin a caster, they got very little life and there is no need for you to pop a Felhunter juz to kill them, takes you 10sec to cast the Felhunter unless you are spec in Demonology and it will take you about 10 - 15 sec to kill a caster so y cast the Felhunter???

Ok back to topic, I think that the learning curve to be a good Warlock is one of the longest in WoW, not only do you need to learn how to play the Warlock properly, you gotta be able to play ur pet correctly as well, in other words you gotta be able to do micro managment very well. I think that a good Warlock will *not* have alot of his pet's skills on auto cast.

For example at lvl 60, if I'm using VW as my pet, I will send him in to taunt the enemy and I'll cast Curse of Agony, Corruption and Immolate last. I'll usually get aggro after VW taunts the enemy after the 3rd time. At this point I'll turn Taunt off. In the forums alot of people are complainin that VW runs out of mana too fast, reason? Simple they have everything on autocast. Unless you have improved Voidwalker, you will get aggro somewhere around the 3rd taunt. If you have imp. VW, its very hard to get aggro off VW. If you dun turn taunt off and juz leave it on auto cast, you are simply wasting mana cuz once you get aggro, its very hard for VW to gain aggro again and you will simply be wastin mana and most likely VW will not have enough mana after teh 2nd or 3rd fight.

Next up, I'm gonna talk abit bout the Warlock himself. Ur primary way to deal damage would be using Damage over Time (DoT) and some Direct Damage (DD). The difference? DoT spreads out the damage over a period of time but DD deals all the damage in 1 burst. For example Corruption does 666 shadow damage over 27 sec so the damage is spread out evenly over 27 sec, about 70+ damage per sec. Shadowbolt does 455 - 507 damage in 1 hit. Couple of main difference between DoT and DD. DoT cannot crit but however once you land a DoT on a mob, you will always do the same amount of damage unless you are fighting a mob that is very much higher level than you. As long as the mob is not immune to your spell, you will always have a very constant DPS unlike a DD, you can do less damage deal to high resist. But however because you cannot crit with a DoT sometimes it can take a while to kill certain mobs. But fear not Warlocks do have a mixture of DoT and DD, although we may not have as much DD as a mage, we do have enough spells and pets to make ourself useful in a group or solo.

But the way, I dun think a Warlock is suitable for dealin out high DPS or for constant nuking. We can do it but its not mana efficient, we should only do it if there is a need for it. I will go into more detail at a later date.

Next up I'm gonna talk abit bout the rest of teh skills we have in general. From level 10 onwards, you will need to learn a new spell call Drain Soul. Castin it rite b4 a mob is about to die will yield you a soulshard. A soulshard is used for summonin certain pets and for castin certain spells. Like it or not as of now you need to have a bag for soulshards cuz they dun stack. In certain instance, I can go through 20+ shards per run. Warlock is also one of the few classes able to deal out damage using AoE. Hellfire + Rain of Fire, although we are not as good as a mage but we are acutally a very decent AoE class.

Personally I think Warlock is kinda inbetween we dun do as much damage as a Rogue but we are very constant, we can't stack AoE but we are decent enough to be useful. We can soulstone, healthstone, AoE, deal damage, do crowd control, scout instance. I would define a Warlock as a utility player.

Will talk more bout AoE 2morrow.

-Beast

Warlock

Well I decided to do a blog style guide for Warlock, rather than writin out an entire guide, I'll post my thoughts and ideas for playin a Lock.

Well here is a description of the Warlock by Blizzard. Personally I dun think anyone can tell you better than Blizzard since this is their game.

Although I dun agree with teh description but it is their game.............

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/

I've been playin the Warlock since open beta around early November 04 until now and Warlock has gone through several changes from being a primary damage dealer to a Dotter to finally now a debuffer.

Personally Warlock dun fit in as a debuffer. We dun debuff as well as the other classes. Why use Curse of Recklessness when Sunder Armor reduces the armor more? One more reason why we dun fit in as a debuffer, as of now you can have only 8 debuffs on a mob, meanin in a raid or even in a group of 5, a Warlock's debuff is useless cuz its gonna get cancelled out. Hell I ain't even doing damage in a raid unless I nuke.

But however its not that bad though, we are still useful and I'll reveal more on how to play a warlock over the next few days.

I wana go home

Juz like the headin I wana go home

-Beast

Shadow Priest

I　started a shadow priest on Lightbringer call Veso give me a holler if ya got the time

mp3

Man, I muz have spent countless of hours rippin my CD collection........
The quality is acutally not bad

-Beast

iPod

iPod is really Sexy but its really a chore to rip my CD collection to the computer though...... :(

-Beast

Warlock

I'm bored so I'm gonna do a Warlock Guide for World of Warcraft

ipod

Should I get 1? Since I got a shit load of CDs (250+) I need a easy way to move them around, ipod seems like a great way comments?

Boring

Boring.........Boring...........Boring

I got some Gmail invites left anybody?

Lightbringer

Wow Lightbringer is down again :(

WoW

well...........I'm having school holidays now.......wtf am I suppose to do? I wana play Wow......b4 I actually go back to College and get lost in piles and loads of work.....so I'm gonna get WoW.....I dun care

WoW/Blizzard

Well.....I really wanted to play WoW but its good that I'm able to control and not pre order.....especially with all the problems rite now....its been like 2 days and it seems to me that everybody's spamming Bliz.

1) U can't create a account unless u got Credit Card which u won't be able to unless ya'll over 18 which is y there's the Game Card option which Blizzard have so nicely provided us with. But they forgot to inform the public that even though the game will be release on the 23rd, the Card will ONLY be shipped on the 29 meaning u probly won't get it until the 30th or later.

2) U gotta have a US/NZ/AU issued CC to be able to sign up......actually I send an Email to blizzard b4 the launch asking them regarding the whole only US servers are live and only gamers from US/NZ/AU are allowed to play and they told me that once all the planned release for China/Europe are ready, gamers will be allowed to play where ever they want.......dude what's the diff in letting us choose the US servers now and like 3 months later? I'm not going to play in Korea cuz I absoultly have no freaking idea what the hell they are talkin bout.....I really dun enjoy playing in the China server cuz frankingly speaking they are pretty slow. So I'm still left with US as being the only choice.....to be honest after playing Diablo for so long, I find that the ping between the US West and Korean server to be neligable. So y would I choose Korea? and since I was in the OB testing of WoW I can say that I'm pretty much LAG FREE!!!!!!!

3) Whos reading all this crap anyway?

Freaking bored

I hate to say this but I"m freaking bored.............................................

Exams over/Wow beta over

Ok exams are over ---------> highlight and I think I did pretty well but WoW beta's over too .....suxz was really having fun....

WTF

In addition to the weird shit going on lately, yesterday I got no signal for my hp, no signal for my cable tv and no connection to the net.................man its really weird shit man..........

Breakthrough

hehehehehehe Made a breakthrough in my playing 2 day....great day for me...what bout urs???

Weird

Its been raining the whole freaking day..............I can't believe this............horrible

Nothing much happening

Really nothing much going on.....New version of Mozilla is out though.....ya'll gotta try it if you have not

Mozilla


-Beast

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