ive seen a few guides on it , some are sl / aff specs and others are something else.
which leveling spec for a lock do you think is best?
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Affliction if you ask me.
You can practically go without stop, and get some +shadow gear in the 40s and just drain tank everything non-stop.
Now, there may be better strats these days, but that is what I used back in Vanilla.
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I thought Demo was the leveling spec. All buffs to the pocket tank.
i was looking into demo but i was thinking demo/ruin for a solid succubus.
Demo or Affliction are solid choices. Demo is a faster spec but you can pull the entire world and survive as Affliction.
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hmm you make a solid point there.
I was affliction in vanilla. I preferred that play style.
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ya. im leaning to that side.
anyone have any classic .db talent calc links?
In BC I leveled as a healing priest with an affliction lock. We could literally butt pull everything with no risk. Moonbrook? All the mobs everywhere running to get more mobs. Still fine. The warlock could manage about three himself. Add a pocket healer and we were unstoppable.
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man wouldnt the casters like 3 shot someone though?
My preferred method is actually the same as the SM/DS spec, people have suggested that also.
Go ahead down the aff tree first to 30 SM, then do DS. But this means you’re going to drain tank.
If you DONT want to drain tank and just be lazy voidwalker leveling? Level your voidwalker stuff (and unholy power). it is slower though.
Here ya go…happy reading
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Warlock_builds/Level_60
ty i dont know if ive seen that one before.
It is faster to just kill things with drain tanking. You can use a succubus (when you’re leveling, succ actually does decent damage) and you’ll get a rhythm with dots/fear along with your pet smacking things around.
It isn’t as good as hunter leveling which is super lazy but…it’s still pretty good…
Well, we did have to be moderately smart and LoS when we got too many casters and whatnot. And prioritize kills. And get some fear action as interrupts (if we were pulling via “runs away in fear”, fearing the mobs didn’t really bring extra).
All 3 are fun and different.
Really cool one is Destruction with DS. You can sac pet for regen, and then blow things up fast.
Affliction is the easiest, just dot things up and let pet tank them.
Demo is probably the worst of 3, since you have no spells, and it’s very boring.
I always preferred affliction leveling. It may not have been the absolute fastest but it’s what I liked.
I was going to do Demo up until Improved Voidwalker and then switch to Afflction, but after watching tons of streams…even with that talent VW is atrocious at holding aggro, so there’s really no point.
I’ll probably just get the Improved Imp talent in Demo (which makes the little guy hit pretty decently) and then go affliction using an imp to burn enemies down.
If you plan on doing any PvP while leveling up, I’d suggest Affliction.
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Void really can’t hold agro worth a crap if you touch the mob. But you can use it to target one mob while doing others. There are various drain tanking strats that sometimes use voids on one mob just to “waste time” while you finish them off later.
I prefer succubus.