warlock - wow starting tips

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never played wow, wondering if anyone has any tip, im liking the look of the class, few questions,

the starting staff, it can only deal close range combot, thought staffs were long range?

Also, when level up, im used to guildwars, where you choose exp points to level up your skills, this just seems to raise your health bar, does the damange done my skills improve as you level up and do you have to raise them specificly.

any other tips appriciated

sorry for spelling im drunk lol
 
Staff is a melee attack, you will rarely use it. It's a backup ability for a lock.

The lock uses spells and has a controllable pet demon type creature which can aid fighting.

Regardingly levelling, you gain talent points from lvl 10 onwards, and u can choose one of three talent paths. Or make a combination of these.
 
thanks for advice, didnt realise the staff was shortranged hehe, yes got a few mates ready to make a guild.

thanks anyway
 
tom91x91 said:
thanks for advice, didnt realise the staff was shortranged hehe, yes got a few mates ready to make a guild.

thanks anyway
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Good guild is invaluable to this game and adds an entire new level to the experience. It's not just a matter of having a tag, but having access to people and their knowledge bank as well as help when needed. I have limited experience of warlocks as I only had an alt but basics include developing your Damage Over Time (DoT) talents as they will always be very mana efficient meaning that you will have to stop very few times when soloing quests.

Builds can be found here and there's a WoW Wiki Warlock article with plenty of explanations too. Also remember that being nice helps in this game, there's plenty of *male organ*heads out there as it is.
 
Best advice about Wow I can give anyone is uninstall it. The game is so unimaginative and incredibly dull in the lower levels and everyone just wants to race to the high levels as fast as possible so a first timer into the game doesn;t get much of a chance to play through the game unless you have others playing along side you. I've tried it twice and gave it up twice. City of heroes is by far the better game IMO, most people that have played both will agree. it's almost criminal that WoW has become so dominant despite being so average.
 
MissChief said:
Best advice about Wow I can give anyone is uninstall it.
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Oh go away.


Take a look at the wowwiki link above, it will give you a really good idea of how to play as a lock, the game has also just gone though some fairly massive changes and will have more when Cataclysm is released in December, allot of which has and will make the levelling experience for new players much better, introduction of beginner tooltips that describe HOW to use the ability as well as what it does and much more in depth pop up tutorials, they also overhauled the talent system so that at level 10, you chose a specialisation, get a key skill and a few other things and are locked to that spec until you've spent 31 points in that tree, this basically prepares them much more for playing a spec at at max level.

They also changed it so that once you learn an ability from your trainer, the ability levels up as you do, no more ranks of spells.
 
MissChief said:
Best advice about Wow I can give anyone is uninstall it. The game is so unimaginative and incredibly dull in the lower levels and everyone just wants to race to the high levels as fast as possible so a first timer into the game doesn;t get much of a chance to play through the game unless you have others playing along side you. I've tried it twice and gave it up twice. City of heroes is by far the better game IMO, most people that have played both will agree. it's almost criminal that WoW has become so dominant despite being so average.
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Blatant troll attempt, Please shut up, I have played a few MMO's and although I no longer play WoW it has to be the most enjoyable MMO I have played,

City of heroes was terrible at low levels too, so bad that I didn't even bother to work my way up, at least WoW kept me hooked to reach 60 at the time
 
A good tip i can give for you first character is to take herbalism and skinning skills and make a level 1 character to be a bank and send him to the auction house in orgrimar. You can really make a lot of gold with this i was up to 1k by level 40 on my reroll for cataclysm, even though im a very experienced wow player. Its seems herbs sold for a lot more then mining ores at lower levels which is why i think herb is better but someone might disagree. Warlock is one of the best leveling class in game i got to 80 in 5 days played when i leveled one that was with trade skills maxed to. I recommend spec affliction for no down time and useing the void walker u get at level 10 all the way to 80. 1-58 is the worst part of leveling a new character at the moment because of the very dated questing in the vanila zones but this is being changed in cataclysm GL.
 
tom91x91 said:
never played wow, wondering if anyone has any tip
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Take your time, finish of all the quests within an area before moving on to the next. Take the time to explore, try and reach areas that look unreachable. Try running some of the low level dungens if you can get a party on the go. Try some pvp at the lower levels out side of battle grounds.
 
I had a Warlock and the best advice that I can give you is to level as affliction. You just DOT the mobs up and drain their hp, tap your hp to get some mana and then do it all over again. I tried all different builds for leveling and constantly saw people say that demonology is best but I don't think so at all.

If you have a healer friend that goes around with you then all the better! I had a healing druid and he just used to put HOTs on me while I tapped my hp for mana and just dotted up every single moving target in the area for fast quests where you have to gather items (a lot of them).
 
I recall levelling affliction till I got to outlands, then switched to destruction, seemed to help a bit more. Once I hit 80, geared my self up in the dungeons and used a hybrid build for a bit, before switching to destruction :D Did loads of damage back then. Alas I no longer play, stopped about a year ago. Very addictive game once you get into it and very time consuming, especially with the raiding etc. Tempting to go back in but the the laptop barely coped :) Remember doing a lot of keyboard bashing when it became a slideshow during some big fights lol.
 
I had a warlock and the best advice I can give you is don't play a warlock, unless things have changed significantly the pet is just a pain in the ass that doesn't scale late game so dies all the time, runs out of range all the time and needs to be resummoned, you're pretty much a pinata for melee to come and bash your face in, fear is so incredibly gimped that people just run off out of range most of the time, etc etc.
 
for me the pet was only their for the buffs and increase the dps count, but other than that yes it got mashed quite a lot and if not on a tight leash got me into all sort of problems. Probably down to my carelessness.
 
Played a warlock to level 80, it's so fun just levelling, as you're so durable and can leech mana/health constantly.

Best advice for you, is keep in mind that once you've played it 1-80, seen most things and had all that 'omgleet' factor, it's never feels the same again...
 
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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