Warlocks whole existence came about because of the Shaman and Mages who saw the power the Burning Legion wielded and said, ‘this could be ours.’ Demons are old news now. We’ve been through undead, old gods, forces of light and darkness, etc so why is it the power hungry warlocks just look at their demons and go, ‘nah, i’m good’ rather than attempt the schools of necromancy, enslaving faceless ones, etc.
In universe I’m sure many of them have. But those have pre-existing disciplines, even if caster necromancer is not playable.
My priest is a reformed warlock.
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Bold of you to assume that they do not. Wasn’t that the entire point of the Green Fire questline? Showing all of the different places Warlocks get their power from?
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I think this boils down to the simple fact of; Warlocks are now as much a hero of Azeroth as a Paladin or anything else. Their focus becoming less-so on gaining of power and experimenting with new beings and more-so on protecting the world like the rest of us.
That’s the way I see it with my own personal head canon with this sort of stuff. Our players as characters have far more important things to worry about then doing any of that right now.
I mean, they do, but that just makes them other classes.
Let’s be real here, Warlocks are just Fel Mages. Just like Priests are just Light or Void Mages, Necromancers are Death Mages, and Druids are Life Mages.
If he starts using one of those other power sources, he stops being a Warlock and just becomes that other class.
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Fel/Chaos is one of the six fundamental forces in the world. It is not “Old news.” It did not stop being useful when the Legion fell.
In fact, it’s probably much easier and safer to use now that there isn’t a gigantic world-destroying army hiding behind it.
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People really end up thinking that the legion have the exclusivity on the chaos force…
While the reality is that the chaos is the force that we less saw about them. Sargeras is a order being that decided to go on the chaos side. Most legion strongest force are light or titan (order) race that got corrupted.
We didn’t see that mush of chaos own creation and even less what the strongest demon are like. Like who are the demon equal of titan, naruu, void lord.
I mean, who says they don’t? Would they still be a warlock if they gave up demon powers and used void magic? Seems like they would then become a shadow priest.
Besides, even one source of magic is stronger than the rest, that doesn’t mean other sources of magic are not going to be used.
All that aside, hard to compete in terms of power with fel magic, considering it was responsible for the destruction of the titans, which the Old Gods couldn’t pull off.
They’re not warlocks once they do that, they’re necromancers or cultists or whatever.
What drew me to the warlock ever since vanilla was that hunger for forbidden and ancient knowledge, so It is a bit disappointing that we seem to be focused on just fel.
They probably do, but they also always come back to fel for a pretty simple reason.
Fel magic is by far the most potent energy in the cosmos as far as allowing the wielder to rapidly expand their powers without much time or effort. It is risky. Very dangerous. But it provides the biggest and fastest gains of all the cosmic forces.
Arcane is slow to learn and tricky to manipulate. You have to be careful when using it and you need years of study to become good.
Light requires an intense sense of faith in something greater than yourself. Your cause. Your virtues. Something. It isn’t great for someone only interested in power.
Life requires a lot of dedication. Illidan was an awful druid because he didn’t have the patience for it so I imagine most warlocks would similarly find this path waaaay too slow. On top of that nature doesn’t respond well to being dominated. Druidism is about communication and understanding. Brute forcing it would only get you so far.
Void is volatile like fel but it also has a habit of driving wielders of it insane. Still, warlocks do seem to dabble in it given their access to Shadowbolt and Voidwalkers.
In the end only fel really has what warlocks are looking for. Easy, fast power that can let them rival an archmage in power with half the practice and study.
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What you got was glowy skullface helmets and purple frostbolts.
Magic in lore is far more nuanced than shown in game, all magic uses the same eight schools, after all. Warlocks in the Green Fire quest chain are explicitly defined as spellcasters willing to yoink magical power and knowledge from multiple sources, in spite of the cost. The Black Harvest Council all earned their spots by bringing knowledge to the council, and back in the good old days of MoP Warlock, the spells they learned actually were what appeared as talents.
A Warlock in theory could use Arcane if they wanted, and many probably still can, just like a Mage could more than likely summon up a demon if they wanted to. There’s way more overlap than what we’re shown.
Warlocks use Shadow and Death Magic as well. Fel is just the most prominent one.