Playing a Warlock can bring you loads of fun. This class belongs to the dark side and therefore their spells are based on the shadow magic and fire magic. They basically have powers from ‘the dark side’ which also brings them in touch with demonology. With demonology they can summon powerful demons, for example imps, fel hounds, succubus, infernals and void walkers. With this ability, Warlocks, similar to hunters, are able to have a pet at their side most of the times.
To have a pet near you will make the game easier and will help you avoid damage most of the times. When it comes to their offensive abilities, Warlocks are damage dealers and their main spells, like shadow bolts, can cause a lot of damage. Another ability that contributed to the overall popularity of Locks is ‘fear, which is can make their opponents run around for a few seconds without the ability to do anything about it. On top of that the Warlock has several ‘damage over time spells (DoTs) which deal good amounts of damage over a specific amount of time. Click here for more on the ultimate leveling guide: Ultimate WoW Guide.
When he combines his spells and abilities right, a Warlock can become a tuff PvP opponent and one of the highest damage dealers in PvE instances and raids. In PvP a Warlock can fear his opponents while applying dots on his target an in PvE he can spam Shadow Bolts and other great spells.
The Warlock has a large variety of spells and skills. One of the most frequently used skills is to summon a Dark Portal. This portal is frequently used in raids, and with this ability a Lock can summon players from afar to his current location. He will need a hand to summon a player. Dark Portals have a purpose similar to meeting stones which are to be found in front of dungeons and instances.
Another helpful ability a Lock has is to place a Soul Stone on a friendly player or himself. If he or any other player has a Soul Stone applied he will be able to resurrect if he dies, right on the spot. This spell comes very useful because it saves time of corps running and it has a cooldown of 30 minutes. Soul Stone will come in handy to any Lock while he is leveling and also it is a ‘wipe savior in any raid or dungeon group if placed on a player who can heal or resurrect. For More on Gold leveling: Introduction to Gold Secrets
A Warlock can also create Health Stones which function as healing potions and are actually more powerful because they restore more hit points. At the beginning, a Warlock can give the Health Stones to other players separately and on the higher levels he will be able to create a Soul Well where all the members of his raid or group can click to obtain one Health Stone. During longer fights, a HS is really useful since its cooldown isn’t connected to the cooldown of the health potions, and basically, during the same fight one can use both.
Warlocks are a very fun and interesting class to play. Not only that you will have the abilities to summon many different demons as pets to fight for you, you will also have very destructive and strong damage spells, abilities to fear the enemies, and a couple of other very useful spells that will greatly improve your group’s performance. If you like to play with casting classes and want an easy time leveling up, the Warlock class is a great one to chose!
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