Warcraft Class: Warlock

Warlocks are a cross combination of elements from other classes in the game. In essence, warlocks are a caster class with pets that can curse, DoT, do direct damage, fear enemies, and use a number of interesting, if odd, skills to do things other classes can't.

As with all WoW classes, there are three specialized branches that a warlock can use to tailor their character to a certain style of play.

Affliction: Curses and Damage over Time are the name of the game here. Who do Voodoo? You Do! It's a time honored tradition to watch your opponents flee and die at the same time.

Demonology: Pets, pets, pets. And oh yeah, pet bonuses up the ying-yang. Sure you don't do as much spell damage, but you can take on a lot more opposition.

Destruction: Pure power shooting. A destruction lock can reduce a target to ashes. However, bright lights tend to attract a lot of enemies.

Why is a warlock useful in a group?
1. Pet Buffs
2. Summoning
3. Soul Stones
4. Health Stones
5. DOTs & DPS
6. Pet Tanking

Oddball Skills?
1. You can breath underwater for eternity if you're paying attention.
2. You see dead people. No really, check out Raven Hill.
3. With two other people, you can summon any other player in the same instanced area or across the world.

Your main fuel for all of this? Souls.

That's right, you too can gobble up the souls of your foul enemies at the simple click of a button and the right timing. Very handy for those wistful days when shiny things are fun to play with.

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Fear is both an offensive weapon and a defensive one. Always keep a fear spell up during combat in case you need to make a hasty exit. In battlegrounds however, fear is a great tool to disrupt your enemies from capturing targets, killing your allies, or just making yourself a nuisance in general. Be careful though, the other team will start to target you before the healers once they figure it out.

. Demonic Circle: This ability now correctly removes the snaring component of Frostfire Bolt.

. Fel Armor: This spell was unable to set off trinkets and other effects. That has been corrected.

. When using Shadowbolt or Incinerate while having Backlash and Backdraft active, only Backlash will now be properly consumed.

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Test Realm Patch Notes...

Affliction is all about doing damage over time (DoT) and screwing up your opponent using a variety of debilitating curses and fear spells.

Beyond that, Affliction is almost all shadow damage based. That means that you'll want to mix in the occasional fire spell, but for the most part, if it's not immune to shadow spells, it's going to die.

The upside to the affliction spec is that it's lightweight, doesn't take long to cast things, DoT on the fly, move on. Great for group and raid DPS.

The downside to affliction is that you will lose your life if anyone finds you. In PvP, just get off what you can and run. Grinding? Have a soul stone and some potions ready. In a group? Try to stay near the back with the healers.

Affliction locks are the most dangerous people in the room unless they are discovered.

Demonology is all about your pet. You have control over the spawn of the underworld and you want everyone else to know it. So, as long as that pet is out, you have a chance at survival. Lose the pet, lose your life in combat.

The points put into demonology do a considerable amount of good to your pet, and when that happens, at later levels in the game, this will come full circle.

Demonology locks are usually hard to kill. Stacked hit points, damage diffusion with your pet, more durable pets, the only thing missing is a lot of spell damage. Pretty much, you rely on your pet for most things.

In grinding or PvP, demonology locks have a pretty good advantage. They can survive quite a bit, have a great pet, do a little damage, things work out.

However, if you like to do groups and raids, the demonology lock has trouble finding a niche and is usually relegated either to the back, or as an off-tank in certain instances.

You're only as good as your pet with this one, but look at the bright side, the pets are free, they're tough, and you can survive just about anyone who comes at you.

Burning your enemies into piles of cinders and ashes is a time honored tradition in magic. Destruction locks epitomize this better than almost any other class in the game.

Essentially, a destruction lock specializes in direct damage shadow and fire spells, usually using several combinations that add damage to each other as they are cast. Conflagration is probably the best example. Cast it after immolation and watch your opponent wither.

The downsides to playing a destruction lock are: You burn through mana fast and you won't have Dark Pact to save you, so you have to pace yourself. And your threat level will be greater than most mages. Thus almost ensuring your imminent death in various situations.

That being said, if you do your homework and know how to get the advantages out of this class, it's decent for grinding, great for small groups, and good for PvP and awesome for raiding DPS.

As long as you have mana, limitless flames are at your disposal.

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The Burning Crusade - Wrath of The Lich King - Cataclysm

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Death Knight - Druid - Hunter - Mage - Paladin

Priest - Rogue - Shaman - Warlock - Warrior

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