I’m planning on playing a Warlock as a main in Classic, and I’ve never played one for any appreciable amount of time in the past. I’d like to do a little research into the best leveling build/tree, strategies for using the demons, etc.
Edit: After reading all these guide, it seems like the manner by which a Warlock is played is extremely varied. Some say stack Stamina. Others say Spirit is paramount for mana recuperation. Some recommend VW tanking. Others state that the VW is no good in the higher levels and that you need to tank with the Succubus. This is gonna take a while to formulate an informed path forward.
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Kargoz has a good warlock leveling guide if your interested. Just look up Kargoz Warlock Leveling and you should find what you need.
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Here is the archive of Maso’s old Warlock guide, originally posted in Feb 2006. Chock full of juicy info.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060531113444/http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warlock&t=842326&p=1&tmp=1#post842326
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I agree with this Kargoz guide good.
I like the Kargoz guide but I don’t know why Kargoz and Staysafe need to sound like they are on Adderall when making these videos, rofl.
I’m reading wowhead guides but I don’t know how people feel about them.
Dive’s Drain Tanking lvling Guide
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qdUs229_XvkR1NCeTrJkybL5BDXGIh7q/view
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This is the only guide you will ever need.
http:// www. ropetown .com/shared/warlock101.html
Loved drain tanking! Best way to level but be warned stay away from mechanicals! You have been warned lol
That’s…a thing of beauty. Brought a tear to my eye, it did.
If you position yourself and your pet right, you don’t have to do the tanking part of drain tanking. The mob just runs back and forth between the two of you and never gets a hit in.
Kargoz’s thing is outdated, and VW leveling sucks compared to private realms because pserver vws where doing the same damage as a Succubus (about double what a vw actually does) making it considerably better at holding threat than it actually is.
Dive’s drain tank guide is much closer to what you want to be running to 60.
That said, even his setup imo loses efficiency.
After dark pact /40, I race down destruction for shadow burn, the crit talent, and destructive reach, basically filling out what would be sm/ruin, but without ruin since you have dark pact.
You basically are no longer bound by mana one you have dark pact, so imo you increase kill speed by rotating nukes into your mob to mob rotation, and finishing everything with shadow burn, while draining less.
I feel bad for people who think they are gonna roll a lock and do deeps like in current versions. Gonna be a slap to reality when they realize you dont need more then 3 locks tops on a 40 man raid 
Well, shouldn’t be a surprise for me, being that I’ve never played a lock past 20-something in the WotLK era. I’m just looking for a different leveling experience than in the past, being it’s a completely different playstyle than what I’m used to.
Warlock Macro Guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PmAPvVda-340ryYPuhdQ9rBTlHsh2WkMPm84F7TMEsg/edit
This is my go-to one:
https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=14455