warlock - wow starting tips

iviv said:
From my limited experience (Demonology Warlock @61), I had a pretty easy time leveling. The voidwalker is your friend, send him in to tank everything, then pile on the DoTs. By the time they start adding up enough to pull the aggro from the VW onto yourself, it'll be dead. Rince and repeat. That said, I have been very curious in trying out the affliction tree, and with the new much cheaper dual speccing, I think I'm going to try out an affliction build too, see if its better or not.
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Also, lifetap is your friend :) but makesure to use drain health a lot too, whilst the voidwalker has aggro. Never level desto, your mana goes too quickly and you pull aggro far too quickly too.
 
Burgh wow :p

levelled a lock once it's easier than most other classes. Go demo with a few points in affli. Dot everything while your pet tanks multiple mobs at once then alternate your time between yawning, Reading ocuk and bashing your head off the wall at the tedium. With health funnel, life tap and a few other abilities you don't even need any downtime for regen.
 
I'm somewhat perplexed by the misinformation in this thread - hybrid levelling builds are no longer possible - you're locked to one tree until you invest 31 points in it, that and the totally altered levels at which you gain abilities makes for a vastly different levelling experience to what the lot of you went through months/years back.
Best advice - wowwiki, failing that, check with official forums; the community, for all the slack it gets, isn't that hostile. Also, as you just started, hold off playing for a few weeks - patch 4.0.3, that I expect some time mid November, will alter/improve the levelling curve.
 
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My one bit of advice would to be enjoy playing the game. Sure there are various builds that might be more efficient to level and PvP with, but in the end you want to go with what you enjoy, especially as this is your first time playing. If you start listening to what build is best for what then a lot of the enjoyment goes out of the game and it just becomes an exercise in min-maxing. You can always respec once you hit the level cap if you want to be super efficient.

Enjoy your time in the world, take time to read the quest info as it helps to build an understanding of the world and the lore. Explore as much as you can and don't worry about rushing to the higher levels because then you miss out a lot of what WoW is about ie the world.
 
airrunner said:
slightly off topic what are warlocks damage like now? as i know a few months ago they were appauling
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Depends on talents :p

I'd imagine that demonology 'locks will have the worst damage, they are build around getting a strong pet to tank for you, while you provide extra damage. I'd imagine affliction could put out some serious damage with a wide range of DoTs, but it wouldn't be much help while leveling since you would pull aggro too fast and your minions wouldn't have enough resiliance.

And as has been said, there are big changes coming, such as the removal of soul shards.
 
sorry to bump this old thread, but ive actually started this character now, i got to level 10 in one day today and quite enjoying it, i chose affliction at level 10, im not at home right now so cant play but which spells are the DOTS?

thanks
 
DOT = Damage over Time

So anything that you cast, and it continues to do damage AFTER you've finished casting it, is a DOT.

Likewise people will talk about HOTs for other classes - Heal Over Time.
 
Voltage said:
demo locks are actually out dpsing affliction now

cataclysm - Destro Lock Goblin Engineer <3
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Destro locks were outdpsing aflliction in TBC as well, was this reversed during Wrath at all?

To the OP - As mentioned before I played a lock for a long time and on the whole it was good, if you're enjoying it now you'll probably find it a lot more fun as you continue to level up higher. Imo the game gets better as it opens up more.

Always felt like a bit of a poor mans mage though, mage was better DPS, less to worry about with the pets etc, and had some cool abilities, whilst with my lock I had a gimpy pet that died all the time and no survival spells to speak of really.

I do miss my destro lock a bit though, was able to two shot people in Alterac Valley with my shadowbolts from range if I got crits, and with a 30% crit chance I got a lot of kills :P

I quit WoW though and don't want to go back, been clean for 18 months!
 
platypus said:
As you've never played it, take your time and enjoy the lore. Blizzard tell a damned good story :).
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Indeed they do, although i always felt that it took a backseat when i played wow. If it had been more at the forefront, and relevant to ever other quest you do, it probably would have kept me playing.

To the OP, find some people to play with. it's what makes WoW fun tbh and makes the inevitable grinding bereable otherwise you'll be sat grinding and bashing the same buttons in the same repeating cycle.

Friends + Random Instance Runs = win

Warlocks were by far one of the more enjoyable classes when i played. (Nothing like being able to go on the offensive).
 
cool cheers for advice, looks like my mate is on another realm so ill have to start a new character on there, but level 10 shouldnt be too hard to reach again, is the warlock not locked to one talent tree thing like some other classes are?
 
All classes are locked to one tree now until 31 points have been spent in said tree.

With the changes made recently Demo should be good as the pets have been overhauled (i've always enjoyed Demo, could solo any mob outside of instances in the game pretty much)
 
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