In the Classic era, I leveled 3 warlocks to level 60, and I was shocked to see what it became in Forever. I abandoned it at level 25, with my succubus, with 350 HP, dying in 5 hits, and the damage from the DoTs much weaker than it actually hit. This was after spending my gold buying good level 24-25 items at the auction house. I don’t understand why Blizzard did this to the class, but the way it is now, it needs a lot of improvement to even be considered awful. While shamans and feral druids have fun killing enemies with 3 or 4 hits, warlocks take 4 times longer and their pets still die. What a shame. But this is just my opinion, after leveling 3 warlocks to 60 in Classic.
after 3 warlocks to 60 you’d think you would be better at it by now
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Todays update will fix warlock pets. They been broken since launch, so we are all waiting.
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They are literally buffing pet health today. Also use blueberry.
The power of your spells was shifted into spell power. Get some gear and level tailoring for spell power gear. Use wizard oil and spell power food/elixir.
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According to the Blue Post, only VW will be buffed. That wont fix the issue
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I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. Everyone hates warlocks for some reason due to previous expansions, therefore they aren’t allowed to be a real class in Forever.
I’m level 30 running affliction with decent gear (90 spell power). It’s insane that my Bane of Agony runs its full cycle and the target is still at 30%. This class has been gutted.
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I NEVER play a warlock because I just cant get into it I only say this just so people can see I dont have a dog in this fight. I was hunting boars to get leather and stuff for cooking and I watched a warlock engage A SINGLE BOAR in westfall and his pet died in seconds after engaging If I hadnt been there to heal the warlock he would have died and the poor guy was casting non stop to try to burn the mob down it was painful to watch.
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OP is more likely to be unskilled instead of lock unplayable
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I’m a new warlock - what do you mean by ‘blueberry’? Thank you.
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It’s a nickname for Voidwalker.
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ahh OK - thx 
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its not unplayable but imo you basically have one option and and its voidwalker for pve
if you are trying to do pve questing with any efficiiency, its just VW and that feels like thats it
additionally, you NEED demonic brand OR improved VW talents for it to hold aggro 
so yeah its not in a good place but its not unplayable. i am llv 33 havent been chasing gear much/
Full demo build
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been playing lock since 2004…they’re fine…void a little squishy so I can’t solo 4 mobs at once..but 2-3 seems fine
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Something is really broken with warlocks, even with the crittable DoTs, it feels like killing stuffs are so much slower than Era. WTH blizz fix them now !
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Seems like you are a bad player if you leveled 3 locs you know there are specs you don’t need to use your pet to rely on that so just as well or better then demo
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Yep. Can Confirm. I’m level 24 in Wetlands now. It doesn’t matter if I use Succubus and face tank with dots and drain life + blue wand or Voidwalker, the pets are EXTREMELY weak. The DoT damage seems cut in half or like 30% from Classic Era numbers. This makes it so even at this low level, my DoTs tick over and the mob im fighting (my level or 1 level lower than me) is still alive and I have to waste mana to reapply the DoTs because they aren’t doing enough damage.
It literally is not like Classic Warlock at all. Its weird.
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Stick with it. Todays update will hopefully help ALL lock pets. I got a lock at 25 and yeah doing affliction drain and its not too slow yet. Also with dots being able to crit we may see a good spike when we can get crit gear later.
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unfortunately they only mentioned VW, lets hope they see the issues is more than just VW
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Unplayable is an understatement.
Wait till you guys get 45+ and mobs have 2x the HP. You have to do a full raid rotation to kill it, takes 30 seconds.
Then a melee runs by and kills every mob in 6 seconds. Game is balanced.
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Ouch!!! Yes I am experiencing this too
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