I played rogue in vanilla until BFA, but I wanna switch it up now. Im thinking warlock but I am a little worried about pet management and all the spells this class has compared to mage and shadow priests (mostly talking pvp here, I know they spam SB and CoE in raids). How hard of a learning curve is there really to this class compared to others ? I’ve been going back and forth for months now trying to decide which class to play and Warlock is an interesting one for sure.
It’s really not hard.
Warlock is in the same boat as hunters.
Easy to play, hard to master.
They have a lot of depth, once beginning to understand some of the gimmicks this class can pull off.
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It was not hard. Nothing in WoW has ever been hard. It is more complex in some ways, but not hard. Also, playing mage has it’s own complexity because you don’t have a tank pet and you have to kite and " run and gun".
Warlocks “can” be easy and played lazily due to pet tanking. But to play them optimally you have to creatively juggle a lot more buttons (not nearly as much as shaman though).
In short, it is not hard, but you will have to spend some time learning the nuances compared to easier classes like mage.
We are talking mostly PvP here. In PVE,. EVERYTHING is pretty brain dead easy except for, believe it or not, hunters, which are easy to learn yet very hard to master.
There are plenty of warlock guides out there if you want to give it a go. Also, Apocalypse is our resident warlock expert so hopefully he will see this thread and give you some even better advice.
Hope to see you soon on the dark side brother. ![:sunglasses:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/sunglasses.png?v=6" ":sunglasses:")
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They are a great class, but if your rolling one for pvp, Horde has like a 65% advantage over alliance since they dont have to deal with wotf.
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Also how gear dependent are they compared to other classes? Im not sure how much time I will be able to put into the game because of life and stuff, but I’ve heard conflicting thoughts on that part. Some say they are squishy as hell without gear and die too fast to do anything, others say they can play SL and be successful right away,
Like every other class in Vanilla. Easy to play, difficult to master. For PvE, all you have to do is follow boss mechanics, use assigned curse, spam shadowbolt, and WATCH threat. However, PvE is generally easy overall for each individual. For PvP, there is a high skill cap.
For a clothie they ain’t squishy, don’t know where you have heard that nonsense. Sure they ain’t plate wearers, but as you yourself mentioned, SL build is annoying to try chew through for any class.
But it really comes down to what you want to focus on. They are on par with mages on how gear dependent they are, with the caveat that for raiding, it isn’t before BWL they can get some decent Hit. They will have slightly different priorities regarding stats when it comes to pvp vs pve / raid pve, as any other class.
Warlock was one of the more complicated classes in vanilla. Yes, it wasn’t too difficult to play - none of them really were that difficult - but there were a lot of spells to juggle and things to master.
Hunters were probably similar complexity, both are pet classes that had to juggle a bunch of abilities and pets at the same time, not to mention stuff like soul shards and ammo.
A poor warlock was a fairly easy kill in pvp, a skilled one could be damn difficult if they were in the right situation with the right pet and talents.
You have to deal with Fear Ward, though.
Undead warlocks can’t get hard, they’re a bit busy falling apart.
Niche situations though. Dwarf Priests are strong, but it’s a long cooldown and they’re not actually going to be as popular as they are on private servers where pretty much everyone knows how to min/max. Dwarves were never really popular as a race, and I doubt we’ll see that in Classic.
On the other hand, Undead are popular as a race and WotF is well known.
was second easiest after hunters to lvl so its not hard, but like all classes in classic the difference between someone actively playing there character to someone just cruising along makes a huge difference to how good they are, this is something they have removed with retail to a large degree.