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For related articles, see Category:Warlocks.Warlocks still retain their skills in the manipulation of the chaotic element of Fire, although their focus is on delivering excruciating pain and drawing out the suffering of their victims.Contents
1 Background
1.Armor
5 Attributes
6 Soul Shards
7 Abilities
7.Game Expectations
11 Macros
12 Addons
13 See Also
14 External links
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Warlocks are masters of the dark arts, devoted to furthering their understanding and use of Shadow and Fire based magics, along with the summoning of daemons, or demons, who exist within the Twisting Nether.The eredar of the Burning Legion are credited as the original warlocks and wielders of dark magics, corrupted from the powerful and magically attuned eredar of Argus.In most societies, the warlocks now live on the fringe of civilization, tolerated but not trusted.Human warlocks meet in secret in the basement of a bar in Stormwind.Thrall has expressed discomfort with the warlocks but understands the necessities in using them.Conventional spellcasters often see warlock magic as a vain attempt at gaining power.Although many that consort with demons fall to darkness, the warlocks of the Horde and the Alliance advocate bending demonic forces to ones will without succumbing to complete corruption.These spellcasters can summon demons to serve them, and they also cast many painful spells that slowly eat at the life of their enemies.Warlocks are usually physically weak compared to other classes, but they compensate for this deficiency with their potent array of spells and their demonic minions.Compared to other spellcasters, warlocks are among the strongest and often depend on the sacrifice of their own blood to fuel their magical powers.Each has its own history in the dark arts.Overview
Warlocks are unique among the DPS caster classes because of their ability to convert health into mana.Warlocks have the most powerful assortment of Damage over Time spells when used in conjunction, the most variety in debuffs and summonable minions.Burst damage when suitably specced and geared can rival those of a Mage.Area of Effect spells are not as varied as those of their Mage brethren, although when used appropriately they have powerful applications in group play.Warlocks are well versed in the "shock and horror" tactics of warfare, and their manipulation of Shadow energies can send their opponents reeling in Fear.At low levels, Warlocks rely primarily on minions and Damage over Time (DoT) spells to deal out damage to their enemies while fearing their enemies to prevent retribution.Endgame warlocks either choose to maximize the effects of their DoTs and Curses through the Affliction tree, increase the utility of their summoned minions and stones through the Demonology tree, or lay waste the opposition with Burst damage and Direct damage spells in the Destruction tree.Direct damage spells to maintain DPS in PvE raids.Affliction DPS is now competitive in a raid environment.The Warlock can learn to summon magical mounts.All other classes, except Paladins, must purchase their own mounts with gold or via PvP.Being a Warlock also rewards many things: they are PvP powerhouse due to naturally high stamina values, they have the ability to apply debilitating, even humiliating Crowd control abilities and in PvE their damage output in multiple target situations can rival those of other DPS classes who focus fire on a single target.Armor
Warlocks can wear Cloth armor only, and can initially use Daggers and Unarmed combat in battle.Attributes
Stamina is one of the key Warlock attributes, especially for Demonology Warlocks.The main reason for this is that a Warlock can convert his health to mana through the spell Life Tap, thus allowing Stamina to partially fill the role for Intellect as well.Many Warlocks also depend on large health pools as their main source of defense.As a primary spell caster, the Warlock also has great use for all the standard caster attributes, such as Intellect and Spell damage.The value of Spell crit depends on the talent build.With Ruin and the use of direct damage spells, it is very good.But for an Affliction Warlock that mostly uses DoTs, it is worth very little.Stamina + Intellect, which are bolstered by the Warlock's own Stamina and Intellect values.After this point, however, spell hit rating is useless.The Warlock has no use for Strength and also little use for Agility.Spirit regenerates health and mana for Warlocks, but very slowly.Soul Shards
A large number of the Warlock's skills and spells rely on the reagent known as Soul Shards.To create a soul shard, the warlock must be channeling this spell as the target dies.Only targets that would give experience (or honor in the case of a PvP target) to the warlock will yield a Soul Shard.Soul Shards are used to: summon all minions except for the imp; create healthstones, soulstones, firestones and spellstones; cast many high level spells and enslave demons.This article has a large number of external links.The information this article links to may already exist in WoWWiki and the links should be changed to reflect that.Find detailed information about the warlock's various abilities on the Warlock Spells page.Minions
Warlocks can summon a variety of minions, each exhibiting different skill sets which are useful in different situations.Imp (Level Obtained: Varies, obtainable as early as 1, usually 4 though, Gnome, Undead, Human, Orc, Blood Elf)
The Imp's main role is a support minion, designed to do additional damage alongside the caster via its Firebolt attack.The Imp is very fragile and will die very quickly if attacked, but it requires no Soul Shard to summon, and is often used to farm new Soul Shards when you run out and cannot summon a different minion.FR at higher levels) which he will cast on you and your teammates that enter combat.With the Improved Imp and Improved Firebolt talents, the Imp is a damaging minion in the warlock's arsenal; at least until he runs out of Mana.The Imp is also useful as a mana battery for affliction warlocks using Dark Pact due to his ability to stay out of harms way and his fast mana regeneration.The Voidwalker's main ability, Torment, is a taunt that causes enemies to lose interest in the warlock and instead attack the Voidwalker.At higher levels, however, it is unable to hold a mob's attention for very long.Succubus deals the most damage of all the basic minions, without talent upgrades.Where the Succubus deals lots of melee damage, the Voidwalker is a great tank and the Imp deals lots of ranged damage, the Felhunter has high magic resist and has abilities to Counterspell (Spell Lock), remove buffs from enemies and remove debuffs from friendlies (Devour Magic).The Warlock employing a meleeing Felhunter can also use Tainted Blood to reduce the Attack power of enemies when they land hits on the minion.One could also use Paranoia to greatly increase the stealth detection of all party member close to the demon.There are no talents that specifically improve the Felhunter.The Infernal deals strictly in melee damage, combined with an immolation effect that hurts all enemies nearby.It also requires an Infernal Stone to summon.Doomguard (Level Obtained: 60, from Curse of Doom or Ritual of Doom)
The Doomguard is the most powerful Warlock minion.It has the highest HP and AC, as well as having Rain of Fire, Dispel, Cripple and Warstomp.Enslave's duration diminishes after each casting.Doomguard if it deals the killing damage.That one party member could be you, thus unleashing an angry Doomguard on your group mates with no one to enslave it unless another Warlock is in your group.Overall effectiveness compared to other warlock minions is in a rapid state of flux.DPS to the succubus, while tanking almost as well as the Voidwalker (having slightly less armor but much better single target aggro generation (this appears to be changing however, with armor increasing).It uses the standard single soul shard to summon.An Undead Warlock mounted on a Dreadsteed.The Felsteed is the 'free mount' that Warlocks receive at level 40.Honored with the mount's city (and pre 2.This is a great help since Warlocks must purchase spells for their summoned minions as well.The Dreadsteed is the Warlock Epic level 60 mount.This minion is obtained though a long quest line.This cost however does not take into account the three materials collection quests you are tasked with which can be very costly, particularly if your Warlock does not possess any of the trade skills required to do them.Damage over Time Spells
A Warlock's DoTs are the bread and butter of their arsenal, regardless of talent specialization.Affliction Talent which heals the warlock for an amount equal to the damage dealt to the target.Direct Damage Spells
An Undead Warlock.The Warlock's direct damage spells are either Shadow or Fire based.While a Warlock's direct damage alone does not compare to the Mage, when coupled with their DoTs and a minion they can achieve strong, steady DPS to rival that of other classes.Fire spell producing a higher amount of threat.Instant cast, Shadow damage, Destruction talent that costs a Soul Shard, but may return it, and has a cooldown.Fire spell requiring a Soul Shard, and has a cooldown.Shadow spell that also heals the warlock equal to the amount of damage dealt, and causes the target to flee in horror for 3 seconds.Channeled
Some of a Warlock's most important spells are channeled, and they can be protected from interruption by damage, using the Fel Concentration and Intensity talents.Drains the target's health, healing the warlock for an equal amount.Drain's the target's mana, returning it to the warlock.Corruptor set
The Warlock has available a variety of curses, but only one can be cast upon an enemy at a given time.This creates the need for determining an appropriate Curse in a given situation.An affliction talent that decreases the target's movement speed by a percentage.Reduces the target's fire and frost resistances and increases the fire and frost damage taken by a percentage.Reduces the target's arcane and shadow resistances and increases the arcane and shadow damage taken by a percentage.This spell cannot be cast on players, and its damage can be increased using the affliction talent Amplify Curse.Another powerful ability of the Warlock is to create beneficial items from Soul Shards.Some of these stones are used from the wand slot and others are used from the inventory.Creates a consumable stone that will heal its owner.It can be given to other players and used like a health potion, but is on a separate timer.Creates a consumable stone used by the warlock to cast a spell that allows the targeted player to self resurrect if they die while the soulstone is active.Creates a stone that cannot be given to other players, which adds Fire damage to your wielded weapon and increases Fire spell damage.Creates a stone that cannot be given to other players, which when equipped increases the warlock's critical strike chance, and when used, will remove all negative magic effects.It also has a three minute cooldown.Healing
While a Warlock is by no means a healer, they do have some limited ability to heal themselves, their minions and others while in combat, and even resurrect.To heal themselves there are Drain Life, Siphon Life (Affliction talent) and Death Coil which, conveniently, also damage the target.The newer Fel Armor spell, included in the 2.Shadowbolt, Shadowburn, Soul Fire, Incinerate, Searing Pain, and Conflagrate though the talent Soul Leech (Destruction talent).To heal others (or himself), a Warlock can create a Healthstone and hand it to another friendly player.These can be improved through talents.Burning Crusade introduced the Ritual of Souls which creates a Soul Well from which 10 Master Healthstones can be extracted by any person in the raid or party.This can be improved through talents.To resurrect a target a Warlock may use a Soulstone on the target before it dies (30 minutes Buff duration and Cooldown), allowing it to resurrect on death.Crowd control ability does not increase health generation of the target, so they are able to Fear a target while still doing damage, though all damage has a chance to break Fear (again unlike the Mage's polymorph ability wherein all damage carries a certainty of breaking the crowd control).Can also be used in PvP against enemy demons and Treeform Druids or Treants summoned by Druids.The eye has a slow fall ability.To alleviate a common misunderstanding, it should be emphasized that stealth and invisibility are entirely different mechanics.This ability affects only invisible units, not units who are in stealth.Melee
Although the warlock is a ranged class, it does have some provisions for fighting at melee range.Warlocks can equip swords, as well as Firestones to bolster their melee attack power.Defensively, a warlock can share his damage with his pet via Soul Link, and counter melee attacks with Fire Shield.With crowd control abilities such as Fear, Death Coil, and Howl of Terror, the warlock can help deter melee engagements.Affliction's strengths are its ability to remain mobile in PvP, allow the Warlock to heal himself, and is very mana efficient, great for farming.Key talents include Shadow Mastery, Siphon Life, Fel Concentration, Improved Corruption, Dark Pact and Unstable Affliction.Key talents include Soul Link, Master Demonologist, Demonic Sacrifice, Demonic Embrace, Demonic Knowledge and Summon Felguard.Destruction talents are largely based on increasing the effect of a warlock's Direct Damage spells, making them (and their dps pets) cast faster, crit more often, and ultimately deal more Burst Damage.Destruction's strength is its ability to quickly kill a single foe.Key talents include Conflagrate, Ruin, Shadowburn, Bane, Shadow and Flame and Shadowfury.Destruction is the only spec with high damage instant cast spells to quickly finish a fight, and the least mana efficient as well.WoW Vault, Thottbot, Merciless Talent Calculator.See the Warlock talents page for detailed information and talent trees.Suggested Professions
One suggested pair of professions, that go along with the warlock class, is Herbalism and Alchemy.You can use potions for buffs and sell the remaining herbs at the Auction House, most of which sell for more than they do at the vendor.Tailoring is also a wonderful profession for Warlocks, allowing them to make better gear than that found in some instances.As of The Burning Crusade expansion, the specialty tailoring recipes (Shadowcloth, Spellcloth, and Primal Mooncloth) have many pieces of gear for Warlocks, such as the Shadow's Embrace and Wrath of Spellfire sets.Warlock's abilities can bring a lot of support to parties, and they are an excellent source of DPS.They should be prepared to banish a lot of elementals, since they're the only form of Crowd Control in Molten Core except on Majordomo Executus.Warlocks normally assign the responsibility of casting curses between each other.It's a Warlock's responsibility to know what curse in a given situation unless the raid leader requests otherwise.Due to a demonology Warlock's unrivalled magic resistance, they are used temporarily in tanking Vek'lor in Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, who is immune to physical damage and inflicts mostly magical damage.Addons
Many warlock addons used to revolve around sorting shards.It is described by its author as "a mod to help Warlocks managing their stones, shards and demon summoning.It is a very useful addon and perhaps the most widely used of the Warlock specific addons.There are four functions performed by DoTimer: the base DoT timer, a cooldown timer, a communications addon that lets you communicate your timers to others in your party, and a customizable notifications addon that can be set to notify you or others of specific events.The soulstone notification can be sent to other warlocks in your group by whisper.Demon Armor and other spells.Some advice when starting out.Spells available to the Warlock.Further information on the Warlock class, including spells.Warlock: Working with Other Classes
Warlock: How to Kill A...Warlock: How to Help A...Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.They have Curses for many occasions; in fact, they can easily be considered the best debuffers in the game.Warlock extra abilities to put to use.Want to Discuss the Warlock?Visit the Warlock Forum.Looking for Class Guides?Racial Traits
Check out the racial traits before deciding which race you are going to pick.By the end of the 1980s, singer Doro Pesch was the sole original member who remained in the band, and thus proceeded to form Doro, a band which was essentially a continuation of Warlock under a different name.The band Doro has several classic songs from Warlock on its repertoire.Music
The music of Warlock was more heavy metal oriented in the beginning of the 80's, with "Burning the Witches" album, but soon going more to a hard rock style after "Hellbound".German bands such as Scorpions and Accept.History
Warlock spent most of the year of 1983 playing in different German clubs, eventually building a steady fan base.After recording a demo and sending it to record labels, the band obtained a contract with independent Belgian label Mausoleum.Doro Pesch on vocals, Peter Szigeti and Rudy Graf on the guitars, Frank Rittel on the bass and Michael Eurich on the drums) recorded the albums Burning the Witches (from 1984) and Hellbound (from 1985), making European tours to market the releases.In early 1985, Warlock signed a contract with label Phonogram.After this album's release, their first music video for MTV was produced, for the song "Fight For Rock".After the tour for the album True As Steel ended, bassist Frank Rittel left, and was replaced by Tommy Henriksen.It would be their last album.As Doro Pesch was the only original member still on the band, she opted not to continue using the name Warlock, playing under the name of Doro from that point on.As of 2006, Doro is active and still performs Warlock material.August 1986)
True As Steel + Triumph and Agony (200x, CD, Russian release, 2 albums on one CD)
Music Box (2003, CD, Top Rec.Also includes much Warlock information.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Be sure to read the message board thread regarding warlocks.Also check the official errata for Complete Arcane for updates to the warlock and eldritch blast.So whether you're a beginning player creating your very first character or an experienced gamer looking to put some punch into an old standby, this column is for you!The Pros and Cons of a Warlock
The warlock's dark heritage gives him a limited array of useful powers.Most warlocks carry at least a small taint of evil, but a few manage to rise above their ancestry to become great heroes.Sinister or valiant, a warlock offers plenty of challenges and rewards for any player.The warlock has access to several powerful abilities that he can use over and over.Though he is a specialist in arcane combat, the warlock can also gain bonuses on a variety of skill checks and create numerous other useful magical effects.Below are several assets you have going for you when you choose a warlock.Winning Ways: A warlock needs to have a high Charisma score because that ability governs his spellcasting.This natural mental strength helps him resist most effects that fool his mind or assault his spirit, including charms, compulsions, illusions, fear effects, and even inflict spells.This eldritch blast affects only one target at a time, and it has a fairly short range, but the warlock can use it as a standard action as often as he likes.Some invocations merely alter the warlock's eldritch blast, but others provide new abilities that expand your capabilities beyond merely dealing damage.Many Class Features: A warlock's supernatural heredity grants him many useful abilities, including damage reduction, fast healing, energy resistance, and the ability to make and use magic items of all kinds.Fair Weapon Selection: The warlock is proficient only with simple weaponry.Though simple weapons aren't the most deadly ones available, the fact that the warlock has access to the whole category gives him more options than most other arcane spellcasters have.Fair Armor Selection: The warlock is proficient with light armor, but not with shields.Light armor doesn't provide great protection, but it's better than what many arcane spellcasters have available.So if your warlock decides to enter combat, he can make a pretty good showing.He also has an excellent chance to hit most foes with his eldritch blasts, which are ranged touch attacks.Warlocks pay a heavy price for their powerful magic.Here are a few of the disadvantages you should keep in mind if you're considering a warlock character.Nevertheless, he is still quite vulnerable to damage.Low Skill Points: At a mere two skill points per level, most warlocks don't accumulate many skill ranks, even with quadruple skill points at 1st level.Thus, they aren't so great at avoiding attacks on their bodies.Limited Magical Choices: You begin play with your eldritch blast ability and a single invocation.You have a limited ability to change the invocations you know, but for the most part you're stuck with what you choose, so choose carefully.Playing a Classy Warlock
Great warlocks usually use the following techniques.So if you're playing a character of this class, try to incorporate them into your strategy.Blast Early and Often
Your eldritch blast is your most potent ability, and you can use it as often as you want.Think Before Blasting
On the other hand, it's easy to get carried away with eldritch blasts.Your eldritch blast is a potent weapon, but it probably won't knock out your foe with one shot.Your eldritch blast makes you force to be reckoned with, but don't get cocky or pushy.Instead, learn to work with your allies.So be ready to support them in case they get into trouble.And while your eldritch blast is probably just as potent as any melee attack available to those characters, you must use care when aiming it, so learn to maneuver for a clear shot when blasting into a melee.Consider taking the Precise Shot feat to help you use your eldritch blasts against foes in melee with your allies.Try to make your fellow spellcasters aware of what you can do, so that they can select spells to cover the gaps in your capabilities.And even though your powers are primarily offensive in nature, you can't expect other spellcasters to let you have all the fun blasting the opposition.One effective tactic is to allow a spellcasting ally to use area spells while you take out the enemy leaders or pick off cripples with your eldritch blasts.So talk to your party's other spellcasters and work out some ways to coordinate your attacks with their spells.Some Key Equipment
If you're a warlock, your magical abilities are more important to you than your gear.Nevertheless, a few pieces of the right equipment can make your career longer and happier.Armor: Buy the best light armor you can afford.You can take a feat to gain proficiency with medium or heavy armor, but either of these will slow you down and impose an arcane spell failure chance on your eldritch blast and invocation powers.No matter what kind of armor you choose, you'll never regret spending the money to beef up your Armor Class still more.And even after you've gained a few levels, a crossbow is still useful against opponents you cannot affect with your eldritch blasts.Scrolls are a cheap and handy way to carry a broad array of magic, but for effects that you use often, consider a wand.Penny, and a growing menagerie of pets.Wizards of the Coast, Inc.The Warlock's Guide to Raiding (Upd.Revised Warlock Talent Guide!What kind of Lock are you?The keybindings are KILLING ME...Lock survival in arena: Banish self?What can I do to tag mobs?Epic Flying Mount + Lore as to why we get it!These Nerf Warlock Threads...Its StarWars Galaxies all over again.You think you know a macro?How's this for a BG grinding spec?Use the many spells and powers granted to you by your Druid ancestors to fight the undead, gargoyles, and dragons.All these bad guys are located in a large number of environments.If you survive, you will collect six ancient runestones and save creation.Build your strength and face the perfect evil, the Warlock.Find out what other IGN readers have to say about Warlock.Most recent contributions for Warlock:
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