Warlock - Puppet Master (Tank Spec)

In advance i want to apologize for miss spelling stuff, since english is not first langauge!

Warlock - “Puppet Master”
Crit haste vers goes as usual

Mastery (Hatefull Bond) - Increase damage from your pet and also decreases pets damage taken. A percentage of incoming healing on the Warlock also heals the Warlocks pet.

A needed passive would be: “Personal Bodyguard” - All threat created by the warlock will instead go to the Dreadlord

Now i get that this would be hard to manage, but it would also be fun to learn and use

In this spec i imagine the Warlock not really focusing on the regular dmg like Chaos bolt and stuff like that, but more in the direction of (Hurting the Demon, forcing it to fight for the warlock)

First talent on the tree: Summon Dreadlord - This would be an AoE instant cast summon with 0 cooldown. (Like Demonology has Felguard, except this cast is a placeable one like Death and Decay and deals damage upon impact) The Dreadlord lasts untill combat ends or KIA.
The Dreadlords autoattacks are Frontal cone

One of the main moves would “Fel Burst” which would be the warlock inflicting slight damage to his demon, this angers the demon making Demon burst out a wave of fel energy. (Not explode i hope you understand what i mean) dealing X amount of fel damage to all enemies around the demon, damage reduced above 5 enemies. (has 2 stacks like Blood DK’s Blood Boil) - putting point into a connected talent “Two as One” will also make the Warlock Burst a wave of fel energy for (30% / 60% / 100%) of the original damage done by the Dreadlord.

There would probably also be a need of a passive bleed to help with keeping the aggro build: “Wounds of Fel” - Abilities done by the Dreadlord applies a bleed to all enemies hit for X% of the initial damage over 15 seconds

Once of the 30 sec or 1 min cd’s could be “Torture” which would ofc Torture the Dreadlords mind for 10 seconds, making it enrage increasing the Dreadlords attack speed, dealing more damage and now the Dreadlords attacks are all AoE around the Dreadlord.

From here the warlock should have more abilities involving tortuing the Dreadlord, but also some of the classic abilities like Shadow bolt etc to keep up damage while other things might be on a little cd or single target dmg like bosses.

Defensives would be somewhat what warlock already has in his posession, but these will now also apply to the Dreadlord.

I hope you like the idea, there would ofc be more work to do with this spec, but for now i think im putting the idea out good enough for people to understand the idea behind this spec!
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This does not seem like it would be very fun to play. Demon Hunters took the fun parts of warlocks to created a lot of the their tanking build. Personally I could see warlock minions being used more as a healing or support build. For warlock tanking I would like to see the warlock possess their demon. Warlocks are greedy and always looking for more power so it would make sense for at least one to want to possess a demon instead of having a demon possess them like in the case of demon hunters…it would probably be a gnome too.

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