Warlocks

[Lissa]

My Warlock Elleneor is nearing lvl 20, and so on the fly I decided to follow the road already travelled and recommended (At least for my first warlock).

Here is what I am planning now;

Destruction (31)
T1 Improved Shadow Bolt (5/5)
T2 Bane (5/5)
T3 Devastation (5/5)  Shadowburn (1/1)
T4 Intensity(2/2)  Improved Seering Pain (5/5)
T5 Pyroclasm (1/2)  Ruin (1/1)
T6 Emberstorm (5/5)
T7 Conflagrate (1/1)

Demonology (2)
T1 Improved Imp (2/3)

Affliction (16)
T1 Improved Corruption (5/5)
T2 Improved Life Tap (2/2)  Improved Drain Life (3/5)
T3 Improved COA (2/3) Amplify Curse (1/1) Fel Concentration (2/5)
T4 Nightfall (1/2)

Leaving 1 for Nightfall (2/2)  or when they fix Pyroclasm (2/2)

There are many Warlocks here with tons more experience than I, so whatever tips and pointers you might share would be appreciated.
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Ok, some notes on talents you have.

Improved CoA is not worth taking in all honesty. As you level you will use CoA less and less depending more on other curses like Shadows and Elements, especially since you plan to go down the Destruction tree, save the 2 points for else where.

Amplify Curse is only useful if you plan to go for Curse of Exhaustion. If you are not going to go for CoEx, skip Amplify and go with something else on the points.

As such, with these 3 points saved, I would put them towards Fel Concentration. Better to have 70% avoidance of interruption while draining than just a mere 28%.



If you want to get Conflagrate, you're going to have to take Improved Immolate. You cannot get Conflagrate without 5 points into Improved Immolate.

If you plan to group a lot, having Improved Searing Pain will cause problems. Searing Pain already has a high agro effect and having it crit more often (between Devestation and Improved Searing Pain) means you are going to get agro more often. If you combine in Curse of Elements, things will get silly quickly (you haven't seen the crazy crits as yet, but when you do, you'll be amazed at how quick you take agro, I've personally done 4k damage in 4 seconds by casting Curse of Elements followed by Immolate for 1.6k damage on the front load followed by 2.4k damage on the Conflagrate because of how negative resistance, Ruin, and criticals react).


I also think you're overlooking the biggest gem talent the Warlock gets and it comes at T1 in Demonology, that being Demonic Embrace. The loss of 5% Spirit is negligible to a Warlock because a Warlock depends on their health to regain mana. As such, having a higher Stamina through Demonic Embrace will also increase your Mana pool (along with your pet's health and giving you a breather when casting Hellfire, the highest damage AoE in the game with the best damage to mana ratio of any AoE).


Also, something to note for later in the game when you start running instances, due to the 8 debuff limit, Nightfall may be of limited use as your corruption and your drain life may get pushed off the mob by other players adding in debuffs as well. So while Nightfall is a good talent, be ready to see it's effect diminish as you get into the high end game.