Warlocks are free agents who don’t follow any ‘‘morals’’ or ‘‘rules’’ unlike some other classes. They just use whatever they can to increase their magical power.
Because they don’t care at all, they use dark or destructive magic types like shadow, fel and fire. But why not necromancy ? I’m not an expert in WOW lore so maybe they are some reasons I’m not aware of but it feels strange to me that a Warlock wouldn’t dig into necromancy.
Affliction handles the necromancy area imo. Also warlocks are about gaining more power; they use demons to gain more and more power.
But this is just my opinion so /shrug
Nonsense. I followed a strict code of color coordination, small furry pet selection, and leveraging shadowy forces to do explosive things when I don’t get my way.
Not really. WoW Warlocks work with Fel magic and demons, not Unholy magic and undead.
DK essentially fills the Necromancer role, Locks have demons, Death Knights have undead.
Though Blizzard is letting Hunters tame undead beasts in SL, which is a weird decision in my opinion.
Because we are warlocks, as in dealing with demons, not necromancers, as in dealing with the dead/undead.
And we have enough specs.
And would prefer Necromancer be it’s own class.
Warlocks have essentially no power over the Undead - you’ll have to talk to my shadow priest 
- warlocks do not dabble in holy or unholy power.
They could. Look at WC 3 and vanilla/TBC/Wrath. Many warlocks are portrayed as going too far down that path. Since then the focus has really shifted heavily to strictly demons though.
As far as available niche in WoW it looks tough. I don’t trust this team to do that after the terrible gutting of Demo to make room for DH.
Now a set of cosmetic only options for affliction to turn pets undead and other such options I feel could have a great place. Especially with Shadowlands being focused on death and character customization. Somehow I doubt it will happen. Prove me wrong Blizz.
Eh. Not quite correct. Look at the leadership of the Black Harvest. They all have a story of pursuing a source of power other than the Fel, like the elemental power of Ragnaros or the cataclysmic energies of Deathwing.
From a lore standpoint, yeah warlocks will pursue any chaotic energy source that they think they can harness.
Warlocks and Necromancers are still very different within the Warcraft storyline.
For example: Gul’dan was a warlock, Kel’thuzad was a Necromancer, and they have very different specialties despite having a lot of overlap.
Not until they allow us control over pit lords and dread lords… specifically demonology
I dont understand why people think only 1 class can use a certain school of magi.
I mean If u look at it most element are used by 2 class. Necromancy is the only one that is used by 1 so far.
Wasnt it the Twillight Hammer and not the black Harvest ?
Yet some still label Ner’zhul as a Warlock, even as a Shaman or Necrolyte who dabbled in less-than-traditional power.
Thinking of Rittsyn and Zinnin specifically. Black Harvest.
Cant say about this back story I havent done Lock in Legion
RP-wise, as a DK, I was pleased to get a frost / necro lich as a Legion champion.
So I can see wanting necromancy…
Fel/Undeath are two different power sources as far as wow lore is concerned. IMO, lore is malleable so it’s likely due to 1) Demons being part of the warlock ~class fantasy~ and they don’t want to muddle that. 2) They’re holding out bc they might want to add a necromancer class later.
Never said there can only be one. I’m all onboard if Blizzard decides to create a Necromancer class. All I said was DK is the stand in Necromancer of WoW playable classes. Having Locks run around with chaos/fel magic with an undead pet seems off to me.
The comment about Hunter pets is more that I’ve wanted to be able to “raise” new undead pets for DK for ages. Just annoyed that Blizz just gave it to Hunters.
I have to agree. Hunters taming the undead makes little sense to me.