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This WoW warlock guide will illustrate to everyone the primary benefits of choosing to play this character class. Warlocks are best known for their shadow and fire magic spells and particularly for the ability to summon and control demons. Casting unholy spells of pain and suffering are a warlock’s bread and butter. They can inflict massive devastation from a distance but are almost never in the middle of the fighting because of their low armor rating. Many of a warlock’s spells make use of soul shards which must be collected from slain mobs. The warlock is one of the fastest characters to level and really shines when playing solo. In groups, warlocks are often the biggest damage dealers.

The only races allowed to be warlocks are Blood Elves, Gnomes, Humans, Orcs, and Undead. The single armor type a warlock may wear is of the cloth variety. They can only use wands, swords (some), staves, and daggers as weapons.

Warlocks are best known for their ability to summon and control a variety of demonic minions including Felguards, Doomguards, Infernals, Felhunters, Succubi, Voidwalkers, and Imps. Each minion has their place with both pluses and minuses. Warlocks possess a wide variety of magic spells at their command including damage over time spells, direct damage spells (DD’s), and some useful utility spells. They’re even able to conjure up some useful items and resurrect fallen friends by expending soul shards. They also possess some limited self healing power when using drain life, and good crowd control abilities ,too. Since warlocks can acquire their mounts via quests, they save bucket loads of gold that the other classes need to spend.

The Affliction talent tree focuses on drains, curses, and DoT’s. When farming and raiding, this is a great spec to take. Affliction is definitely the spec to take when you want to power-level a warlock as quickly as possible.

The Demonology talent tree uses talents that are designed to make summoned demonic minions stronger and more useful, in addition to improving conjuring spells and providing you better passive bonuses. For player versus player, Demonology is a an excellent talent tree. For leveling up, it is almost as good as Affliction. You’ll be heavily reliant on your demon minions when using this spec.

The Destruction spec uses talents that are meant to amplify the power of a warlock’s fire and shadow spells, which are mostly direct damage (DD) spells that can be used to quickly take out one mob. This spec is hard to use effectively at lower levels and is more often used once players get to higher levels. Although you are able to cause massive damage, there are some downsides to this spec that should be considered. You’ll require a whole lot of soul shards, you will burn through mana really quickly, and soloing will be really difficult. Though on the flip side, it can be really fun.

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