WOTLK Classic: Warlock Leveling Guide (Talents, Tips & Tricks, Rotation, Gear)

all right guys and welcome to another video today i'm going to be giving you my warlock leveling guide for breath of life king this video will be relevant for those people playing on fresh servers and people jumping straight into no friend content in this video we'll cover the five most important topics so tips and tricks to speed up your leveling the best talents and glyphs to get while leveling the best playstyle options weapon progression which means caster weapons off hands and ones to get and lastly we'll finish off with a stat priority if you end up liking the video guys please consider subscribing to the channel i'm trying to smash 100k subscribers by the end of the year and subscribers get loads of great subscriber only content you just have to go into my channel page and look at my subscriber only trailer for instance like the best 25 quests to get ready for wrath of the lich king so first of all guys there's two really good trinkets that you can get for leveling the ash tongue talisman of shadows and the airmen's ribbon of gallantry so first of all why is the ash tongue talisman so powerful well when you'll see later in a playstyle section you are using corruption a lot on multiple enemies which means it has a really really high chance to proc to the point where it's going to be active constantly so you'll have 220 spell power constantly and the same goes for the air man's ribbon of gallantry since you were killing mobs so frequently again you're going to have an extra 80 spell power constantly so that's a constant 300 extra spell power with these two trinkets combined my third tip guys is to never be full hp you're gonna have to get used to being about 80 to 100 hp maximizing your efficiency there's no point having health draining abilities like corruption and drain life going on if you are maximum health then you are wasting efficiency or wasting potential life taps which is obviously a potential manner remember that some pretty good trinkets from the burned crusade that are healing trinkets actually become dps one so if you can't get the ash tongue one of the air man's one you can't bother you know grinding that reputation to exalted fair enough remember that some of the healing trinkets are actually really nice i put a really good example on the screen there but there's other great ones out there this one has 62 spell power because it's been converted from healing power there's not a thing as healing power anymore and it also has this really good mp5 effect so if you like me and my warlock has been very unlucky with trinket drops i've only been able to get the badge one and the dark iron smoking pipe this 62 spell power is definitely going to be a big boost over having 40. remember guys you should always be taking on multiple enemies we'll talk more about this in the play style section but as a warlock you really never need to be taking on one enemy at a time honestly the second that you get your imp you can be taken on two enemies at once for a sixth tip i'd recommend to spark a demon lg for dungeons destruction is also nice if you prefer it but looking at the wall of discord it seems like most people are saying that demonology is going to be the best for cleave dps and aoe dps and therefore the best for dungeon clearing remember that you can use your pet as a distraction when you're completing certain quests so you can get your pet to pull some aggro and certain enemies you can go run around picking up certain quest items or completing certain quest objectives without having to kill the enemies it normally saves a decent chunk of time i'll also recommend getting the necrosis add-on guys it is very very very useful there's a number of things you can do in it you can summon all your demons from it you can get your soul stones up health stones you can click the actual orb and it will have you can decide what that spell that's going to do whether it's like summoning people or or using something like ritual of souls it's just a nice little add-on to have on the screen that saves you a lot of time it'll also track your soul shards tell you of certain procs with certain sound effects so yeah it's pretty good i'd also recommend preparing 25 quests for the raffle king launcher best ones for this and only daily quests if you've already completely loaded the quest while leveling your warlock in tbc again go to my channel page and look at my sub trailer in the description of that there will be a good quest list for that and a really good and fast route my last tip is to check out the rustic speed leveling add-on guys the people who made this add-on have been living in their basement now for months making this guide is made by the best world record holding speed levelers in the game so i definitely recommend you to check it out [Music] so guys let's go through the talents what i'd always recommend is a drain tank build when it comes to leveling it provides insane damage insane health regeneration and say mana regeneration to the point where you have absolutely no downtime and you become an unstoppable leveling machine now this build stats become realistic at about level 24 when we can pick up three points into fell concentration so until level 24 you can either spec into affliction or you can spec into demonology it really is up to you for me personally if i was playing a pvp server i'd go demonology until level 24 then respect to drain tank if i was on a pve server i would just go in affliction so let me tell you what that looks like so if you go in demonology go fell synergy two points improved health stone one in demonic embrace max out demonic brutality this is really great for increasing the power of the void sacrifice which doesn't have to kill the pet anymore remember and then that combined with soul link is going to be great on a pvp server for those 1v1 fights then you just get finish off fell vitality demonic ages and round about now you are going to be your level 24 so now we will respect to affliction now first of all even when we're specking an affliction we definitely want to go over fell synergy 15 of all of your damage gets converted to healing on the pair and keeps your pet alive but if you're a tier 5 geared warlock and you already have the set bonus from tier 5 you can probably skip going for fel synergy or get both of it even it will stack then from here i like to max out suppression just to ensure that i'm not missing my spells i'm going to get two points in agony because that's a better dps increase for point for point the vanguard into improved corruption then you're gonna max out soul siphon improve life tap and then put one point and improve drain silver and start putting points into fell concentration and now you can do the drain tanking then you finish off improve drain soul and get amplified curse amplified curse is slightly different now in wrath it just reduces the global cooldown of your curses by 0.5 seconds which is great from here i like to get grim reach and nightfall within a cheeky point in powered corruption definitely wants sci-fi life siphon life is now not a unique ability its effect is combined into the corruption ability so all of the damage you deal with corruption will heal you for 40 of the damage done you can buff that further with the glyph increases it by 25 we can get it in a pre-patch unfortunately so we can have it for rough launch however we can use demon armor which obviously has great synergy without because it's going to increase the amount of health that we get from drain health effects i like to put one point in shadow embrace this does count as an affliction effect which will mean we'll get the extra six percent healing from sulci from when we have shadow embrace corruption and agony but it's capped to 18 now which means you can't also put a fear up to gain an extra six percent healing from it just bear that in mind then just to get us down the tree i'm just gonna put points in empowered corruption and also improved corruption just bear in mind that when you don't have spell power gear low level then empower corruption is going to be much benefit to you so you probably just want to put points and improved corruption instead another man definitely gonna max out shadow mastery and contagion just flat damage increasing abilities gonna get i prefer to go for improved halo terra as soon as possible because i like having it as an instant cast then you also want dart packed male diction until you can get unstable affliction and then we get pandemic when you give a talent pandemic this is when your dots start really really pumping now from here you can go further down if you want to get things like everlasting affliction and haunts but i prefer to go for soul link as soon as i possibly can you may want to continue speccing into affliction to get the increased damage talent until you can get soul link but you can get soul inc at level 62 and that's when you definitely should be respecting to get soul link in my opinion then i'm going to get three points in demonic ages and from here at level 65 i don't really want to get any more talents in a demolitory to be honest i'm just gonna finish off with certain talents and the affliction tree so we can finish off improved corruption empowered corruption finish off getting everlasting affliction and then at this point we should be yeah level 73 so when you're leveling level 70 to 80 you can just finish off getting points in the affliction tree while you want you can get them in the demonology tree also you know you might want to get a fellow domination just for the reduced cast time and stuff just one thing to bear in mind like you may think on holy power is really good and mana feed is really good they're just not really needed you're not really going to be using your pet that much honestly when you're high level because you're going to be running around dotting everything and just keeping your void walker on passive to sacrifice it from time to time and mana feed it it's a great talent but you just get so much mana you you really don't need it because you're just going to be gaining so much health that you can life tap infinitely so mana feed just isn't in fact useful so personally i'd rather just go for increased damage so i can kill them ops faster now when it comes to glyphs you're limited honestly what you can get before raph launch what you can get in the pre-patch but these are the best ones that you can really get glyph for the health stone 50 extra healing on your health stone and when you stack that with improved health so much 50 extra healing so that's quite nice glyphosate corruption basically adds a shadow trans effect to corruption like the talent here nightfall now it doesn't double the chance of it procking it roughly gets it to about 7.64 percent because it means you'll have two different chances occurring on every single tick it's complicated you don't i don't really need to explain it basically it's going to increase the chance of shutter transprocking and then get glyphofear also if you want i'd i'd probably quite like to have this one low level over glyph of corruption because low level you will be using fear a little bit more when you're trying to take on multiple enemies and we don't want that fear to break as often and for minor glyphs there isn't really that much you can get but the unending breath one is quite nice for levelling because it's going to increase your swim speed when you're underwater but guys let's say you're leveling a warlock in the future you can get any glyph you want the best glyphs are going to be glyph of siphon life and quick decay [Music] so let's cover place down now but let's start with all the basics so the best in slot pets now for rough electric king leveling is definitely going to be the void walker or a fell hunter now you're probably going to use the void walker low level and then when a fel hunter is available you go to the fell hunter however when you've got really good gear and when you're high level you know jumping into northern content to be nice even jumping into tpc content the play style largely is about running around dotting and just letting the mobs die while you're running around and your pet doesn't really get much use to be honest so it's best just to have the void walker on passive and sacrifice it doesn't actually kill it like i said before so it's a great defensive boost you may also want to go for the imp as well it's not that bad when you have it talented and also have a glyph of imp it's it's not too bad he does pump quite a lot with his fireball and he has much more health and mana now in wrath of the lich king remember that spell stones are actually much better now they work a bit like a weapon oil so you have them in your bag you click it apply it to your weapon it's going to increase your dart damage and either your spell haste or your spell crit depending on which you prefer my advice will be to go for spell haste as your dots do now benefit from haste and having haste low level is very very good and obviously remote to keep yourself soul stoned get a weak aura to remind you that your soul stone isn't currently up because when you do dive because you are going to make mistakes you will die from time to time obviously just resurrecting there and then with a saw stone is much faster than doing a corpse res now i've also put my soulshard farming macro on the screen there what it does is it's automatically going to assist your pet whether it's um you know a void walker or whatever and it will also automatically acquire a new target so say for instance you using drain soul the target's kind of like getting very close to dying and there you know the tank is going to die and then you have to quickly click the new one well with this macro you can just keep spamming it and it's just going to automatically keep targeting new enemies i use this in the little ad phase on the kil'jaeden and somewhere plateau and i can get like six shards per pull which is pretty nice just by quickly using drain sole on the little limbs at spawn so the play style is going to be different depending on whether you're low level or high level obviously what you want to be trying to do is taking on two to three enemies as much as you can and as soon as you can in your leveling journey so this is what you want to do on the first target you want to apply a curse of agony and corruption and then get your pet to attack avengers leave it then on the second target you again use cursive agony and corruption but instead you face tank fat one with drain life if you haven't unlocked drone life yet i don't have a fair concentration talent at level 24 then you can just face tanker with a wand just bear in mind that you won't be able to do that every single pull because your health will get dropped down i remember to go back to the first mob with drone soul to obviously get the 15 of your maximum mana return to you and then use it on the the second mob also and then if you want this is optional when you're really trying to pump you can also put a third target in a fear and put it in agony just be mindful that it might pull more enemies when you become powerful enough to be honest you could probably face tank 2 mobs without any issues now like i said this drain tanking strategy becomes available about level 24 where you can get the maxed out points in foul concentration however you can definitely take on two enemies at once around about level 16 when you do unlock the avoid walker sacrifice because then you can get your void walk to attack one mob put agony on it and then you attack a second mob all your dots and your wand ever needs your pet sacrifice and all of the dark damage on the second target and the first tag is going to regenerate the healing of that void walker but eventually when you get powerful enough when you get enough spell power you get enough talents enough abilities the leveling experience becomes much much faster and much easier and all you have to do is run around dotting everything depending on what level you are you really have to fill the waters of how many mobs you can deal with i'm not going to tell you oh at this level you can deal this many mobs because it all depends on your skill as a player and your preferred play style but my advice is always try and take on as many enemies as you possibly can when you get to a point where your dots will finish off an enemy like two dots meaning corruption and agony and you that will guarantee killing an enemy that is when you could start running around dotting everything and then when you start to get hit by too many enemies you can pop a hollow terror we've got instant halo tara and the affliction tree to make it even easier you're really going to use that when you're in trouble though you can use void sacrifice death coil and hellstone to stay alive these are great healing abilities which are dramatically buffed in wrath of lich king we can obviously also use shadow bolts about shadow transprocs since it makes the shadow ball instant and then remember to use drain sole to finish off your enemies to top up your mana if you're doing like really big pulls like when you pull in like five to ten enemies you can very easily like use drain sole on two to three enemies at the end of the kind of kill phase to get like a big chunk of mana back when it comes to weapon progression guys my friend nick is making a huge behemoth weapon progression document and it has absolutely everything on it has melee one hands shields and obviously also has caster weapons all the way up until level 80 and also some really good offhand options you know these are from quests that you can get in the open world so guaranteed actual loot but then there's also you know dungeon options if you want to go for those kind of things for an access to the weapon progression list to subscribe to the channel go to my sub trailer and it's in the description of that video now let's go through your start priority while leveling as a warlock your biggest priority is to always get spell power as early as you possibly can low level spell power pieces are very very impactful what it can do and what definitely recommend for you to do is to buy spell power greens off your auction house if you can remember that the mount caster dramatically dropped in raffle lich king so you can afford to buy some gear pieces from the auction house at higher level when you're in tbc and northrend content you start to get really good gear pieces from quest rewards and the priority really is spell power then haste then crit for the biggest dps increase and you also want to prioritize spirit after that since with the foul armor ability part of your spirit is actually gained as spell power anyway guys that's where i'm going to end the video over my name is manny goblins in the next video ciao [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: world of warcraft, tbc classic, fresh classic wow, season of mastery, the burning crusade, mmo, class, guide, leveling, raiding, phase 1, phase 2, phase 3, phase 4, phase 5, phase 6, wrath, wrath of the lich king, classic wrath, wrath of the lich king classic

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Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 23 2022