The following World of Warcraft warlock guide will try to teach you everything you will need to know to get started the warlock class. Warlocks are masters of the black arts that control demons, fire, and shadows. They are adept necromancers that deal in anguish and agony. They can cause massive destruction from a distance but are rarely in the middle of things because of their poor armor class. Many of a warlock’s spells use soul shards which must be retrieved from fallen enemies. Warlocks are easy to level up quickly due to the fact that they’re very self sufficient when playing solo. When raiding, warlocks can do huge quantities of damage and need to be careful not to draw aggro from the tank.
The only races that can be warlocks are Blood Elves, Gnomes, Humans, Orcs, and Undead. The only kind of armor a warlock can use is of the cloth variety. Weapon-wise, they are limited to only using wands, swords (some), staves, and daggers.
Probably the coolest ability of a warlock is demon summoning (Doomguard, Felguard, Felhunter, Imp, Infernal, Succubus, and Voidwalker). Every minion has it’s role with different benefits and drawbacks. Warlocks have a wide variety of spells at their disposal including DoT’s, direct damage spells (DD’s), and some useful utility spells. They’re even able to conjure up some useful items and resurrect dead friends by using soul shards. They also possess a minor self healing ability when using drain life, and good crowd control abilities ,too. Since warlocks can acquire mounts via quests, they save bucket loads of money that most other classes need to pay.
Affliction talents are geared toward enhancing curses, DoT’s and drains. This spec is good for farming, boss killing, and raiding. This is generally accepted as the optimum leveling spec for the warlock class.
The Demonology talent tree is focused on creating more lethal demons and enhancing your conjuration spells. This is a great specialization for leveling, PvP, and general survivability. This talent tree can be used during early levels to make up for the absence of good spell damage gear.
The Destruction spec boosts the direct damage potential of both your fire and shadow line of magic. Your warlock will be able to do incredible amounts of damage and destruction, but you’ll suffer reduced survivability. This spec isn’t as popular as the others at the early levels. It requires lots of soul shards, is not mana efficient, and it is difficult to use effectively for people who want to play solo.
