Playing a Warlock can bring you loads of fun. They are dark casters with shadow and fire spells at their hand.  Since they are interested for the “dark arts”, they are highly skilled in demonology. Because of this they are able to summon demons like imps, succubus, fel hounds, void walkers and infernals. This makes the Warlock one of the two classes (Hunter being the second one) that is able to have a pet at his side at almost all times.

Moving through the game will be a lot easier if you have a pet around you since he will take most of the damage that comes your way. 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. The Warlock is also well-known for their DoTs aka Damage Over Time spells that can do a great amount of damage during a certain period of time. Click here to watch the video: WoW Warlock Guide

Because of these spells, a good Warlock is feared in PvP, and can top damage meters in PvE. In PvE a Lock will mostly use his single target spells like Shadow Bolts while in PvP he will use DoTs and fear as well.

Apart from damage dealing spell, Locks have many other useful skills. The most popular one is definitely the ability create a summoning portal – the 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 a player is Soul Stoned he can resurrect on the spot upon death. This spell comes very useful because it saves time of corps running and it has a cooldown of 30 minutes. For a Lock, the Soul Stone is great while leveling and while in a party or raid the Soul Stone is usually applied to any player who can resurrect other players upon death (healer). If you would like more information on WoW guides check out one of our popular guides here: Dugi’s Ultimate WoW Guide

This class is also famous for their Health Stones (HS), which have a purpose to instantly give back a certain amount of health to any player in its possession, similar to a healing potion. The Warlock can hand out the Health Stones to others as well and at some point the Warlock will be able to summon a Soul Well where everybody in the party or raid can click on to receive a Health Stone. In a fight that is longer, Health Stones come in as really handy since they don’t share the same cooldown as the health potions.

Warlocks are a very fun and interesting class to play. With their damage dealing abilities, demon pets, fears, DoTs and spells which are helpful to the group, they are surely complex characters to play and tuff enemies to fight against. If you prefer to play caster classes and would like to level up fast, this class would be perfect for you!

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