Right now, I open up with CoA to pull (assuming single target), send voidy in to intercept mob, apply Corrupt and Immolate and wand.
Occasionally I drain life if I have recently tapped, or DS if I need the purple candy.
Anything different I can do, or am I pretty well there? I find myself running low on mana, maybe that’s just the nature of it. I’m level 19.
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Play it by ear with your dots.
-If mobs are dying too fast for agony to run the duration, use immo + corruption only before wand.
-wand more and utilize the “5 second rule” (you regenerate mana at the full out of combat rate when you don’t cast anything for 5 seconds) dot dot wand
-get your Succubus asap after hitting 20, Voidwalker is terrible
I’d actually probably recommend the succubus for single target and the Blueberry for multi target. Make a pet attack macro and send the pet in before you do anything else, just sit back and wait for the pet to get that initial aggro, then pop your dots up and start wanding. If you somehow lose aggro a fear into Drain Soul should finish up most mobs. Keep very good track of that aggro though, this isn’t retail where the mob is only 1 Torment away from never losing aggro, nah like 70% of your blueberry’s taunts with either miss or resist.
My warlock is 27 and I find it to be pretty dreadful. I do CoA, Corruption, and immolate. You have a second or two of leeway (good time to tap) before the second torment hits and then I start wanding. I generally pull aggro around 50% and the mob gets to me around 30-35%. Use wand and face tank until it dies.
I’ve been using my voidwalker this whole time. I tried my succubus for a few pulls but that didn’t seem ideal. I might have to give that a go again.
Drain life costs too much mana and does too little dps to make it worthwhile for now.
The troll’s blood potions are pretty helpful. They offer HP/5 like demon shield so that is a bonus (goes for all classes). They are cheap.
I’m nearing in on siphon life which should help a little bit but it’s really waiting for dark pact at 40.
Yeah last time I played a lock was Wrath, and then I just used fellguard. Just hit 20 as we speak and going to get that hooker pet
Mana can be an issue till your mid-20’s. Once you start getting blue gear it gets much easier. Hit Shadowfang Keep and Blackfathom Depths as soon as you can. SFK has crap from the last 2 bosses for you and BFD has a staff you want.
The oversized Voidwalker is annoying in the way that he constantly clips my preferred camera viewing settings in Classic. Makes it hard to want to play the class for me. Back in Vanilla, before they changed it later on, you were able to edit/swap the in-game models on your client-side & I had fun making my Voidwalker a little dark gray murloc, a little critter squirrel, etc.
Recommend macroing a pet attack key bind to send your void walker in to attack first. Give it about 4-5 seconds to get aggro then, depending on the situation I would immolate>corruption>wand. At least at your level
Practicing a bit, and finding a tempo, you can start pulling two mobs. Corruption>agony>fear on the second mob while void walker and your dots tick on the first, then start sanding/drain life/life tap accordingly.
At low levels yeah you’ll be out of mana a lot. Life tap>bandage or food. Healthstone when you need
Just to add I switch pets depending on situations. Succubus is really nice for most things but if I’m in an area where there’s a chance that I’ll pull multiple mobs, I use voidwalker. If the mobs are casters, I use felhunter.
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Don’t be afraid to use fear also. It can bring adds, but if you pull a little back you’re usually okay. This will let you dot up multiple mobs and keep them feared while the void can even tank another.
Sometimes it ends up sending them too far and they re-set, though.
Fear is also amazing for when you need to solo some kind of elite quest. No need to find help in EPL for Borelgore or Duskwing.
Thanks for the tips. I’m actively trying these suggestions out and its working out quite nicely! Heading out to get the hooker pet now.
So I have a warlock at level 36 atm, it is fairly twinked with mostly shadow wrath pieces (like 20g worth of gear, nothing incredible), my spec is full affliction until I max shadow mastery.
I fight mobs by opening with immolate - then depending on their level (= to me or higher gets CoA then corruption, lower just gets corruption) I rarely use siphon life unless they’re going to live the full 30s on it.
Make sure you have first aid as high as possible, it’s a lifesaver because you will be life tapping alot, you are very mana inefficient as a warlock and life tap is your primary source of mana generation.
Drain Life is relatively mana inefficient for a few reasons. If you get pushbacked on it at all, you are already losing mana efficiency to push you into net loss. You need either talents or shadow damage gear (ideally both) to push the damage and life gained per tick higher so that you can actually net profit off of it as far as life/mana goes. With some shadow damage gear and the 70% pushback resist talent in affliction this is fairly easy to do. I have rather high shadow damage at 36, about 140, but you’re netting profit as low as 50.
*Note: Mana efficiency is relative to the amount of LIFE:MANA conversion, if you aren’t at LEAST breaking 1:1 on life to mana you are losing mana in terms of life tap efficiency
For pets, I suggest succubus, she does magnitudes more damage than voidwalker, the CC she can do is amazing for adds/unexpected pulls and, if you’re on a server for it, she is a godsend in pvp (rogue jumps you? not on my watch). Even with NO shadow damage gear AND demo spec to buff him by 30%, with a full round of dots and just drain life, voidwalker won’t hold aggro, he can offtank something you have partial or no dots on but that’s it, his main use is honestly just to offtank something you can’t CC and to be sacrificed to give you an emergency bubble.
For gear, Shadow DMG is more important than everything else by a LARGE margin because not only does it increase your kill speed but it increases your return on life drain abilities AND the mana gained from life tap, reducing your downtime. Next up try to get a fairly decent balance of stam/int, every other stat is irrelevant while leveling.
If you can afford to twink yourself try to get some +stam enchants on your gear, +7 to bracers/boots and 50 health to chest are super cheap and make life alot easier, you’re gonna be low on stats if you’re using damage gear so it helps even it out. This setup has me able to comfortably fight 2-3 mobs at a time, completely murder people in pvp, and to take out elites of my level and below quite casually.
Always keep healthstone ready, if you have extra gold lying around, health potions of superior and below are dirt cheap (at least on my server) and I keep them around for emergencies.
Lastly a tip - don’t be afraid to fear, I can full dot something and fear it, and it’s going to die, you can also fear a mob off you defensively, and if they’re in danger of running into mobs, you can curse of recklessness them to break fear, same goes for mobs fleeing in fear when they get low on health, you can use this to manage mobs both solo and in dungeons.
I didnt even consider recklessness for mobs that run in fear at low health. Adding that to my toolkit now lol (in redridge fighting murlocks and orcs).
Oh yeah recklessness is the best for that. I keep rank 1 for that purpose on the bar and the full rank if I actually want the other effects too.
I might be an ok warlock after ya’lls advice lol
Google ‘Dive’s drain tanking guide’ and follow it. I switched to drain life over wand at 38 when you get r4 drain life. Before that point, lock is a bit slow. After 48 when you get rank 3 siphon life and have r5 drain life is when it really picks up. I absolutely blasted from there until 60.
Try putting your pet attack and return on your mouse wheel. Trick I picked up from a hunter. Once you get nightfall open with corruption. You should have improved corruption the entire time you level no matter what your spec.
Yeah that was my first priority! Im gonna try the pet attack and pet return bind. That sounds genius.