A Warlock's Guide to Curses

[ChrisC]

A simple guide of when/where to use curses.

• Curse of Weakness-
  • PvP- Use when fighting rogues and warriors that you can't get off of you.
  • PvE- some guilds will ask you to put this on bosses to reduce damage.
• Curse of Tongues-
  • PvP- Use on casters. Very useful in arenas on healers with no decurser.
  • PvE-This can occasionally be used to slow down caster damage in instances.
• Curse of the Elements-
  • PvP- This isn't really useful in PvP unless it's on drek/van
  • PvE- This is to be used on boss fights when you have plenty of fire/frost mages (90% of mages). In raids, usually there will be a warlock using elements, a warlock using shadow, and maybe a warlock using weakness
• Curse of Shadow-
  • PvP- Not really useful
  • PvE- This is to be used on boss fights for shadow priests, arcane mages, and other warlocks.
• Curse of Recklessness-
  • PvP- Helps the other faction, giving them fear immunity and more AP, not something to be used
  • PvE- Rank 1 can be used to stop runners, and break fear to prevent extra pulls
  • Only rank 1 should be used
• Curse of Exhaustion-
  • PvP- Extremely useful again melee classes and for running away from others
  • PvE- useful when kiting mobs
• Curse of Doom-
  • PvP- Cannot be used on enemy players /cry
  • PvE- Increases overall DPS on long boss fights
• Curse of Agony
  • PvP- High damage dot, useful
  • PvE- High damage dot, useful

[Aradroth]

Easier guide to warlocks -
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[Syra2k]

Curse of Shadow:
PvP: Useful against other warlocks. Put it on the fel hunter, and get it wont resist your banish.

[ChrisC]

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Curse of Shadow:
PvP: Useful against other warlocks. Put it on the fel hunter, and get it wont resist your banish.

Mhmmmm, I would rather use CoA for DPS on the lock.

[killjoy]

ha some1 sounds upset about warlocks and their ability to kick the poo out of everything else in the game :P

but it is kidna true i could do that adn still end up killing alot of people out there

[Syra2k]

Please don't spam a serious thread.

Mhmmmm, I would rather use CoA for DPS on the lock.

CoA or CoT on the lock yes ofc.. But on the FelHunter! cuz it has like 70shadow resistance.. =Banish fails alot

[Lahtin3n]

Easier guide to warlocks -
Bind all your keys to random letters on your keyboard and roll your face across them.

I lol'd

[raddo]

A simple guide of when/where to use curses.

• Curse of Weakness-
  • PvP- Use when fighting rogues and warriors that you can't get off of you.
  • PvE- some guilds will ask you to put this on bosses to reduce damage.
• Curse of Tongues-
  • PvP- Use on casters. Very useful in arenas on healers with no decurser.
  • PvE-This can occasionally be used to slow down caster damage in instances.
  
  - and help meleé/mage/spriest/shaman lock a casting school with better ease
• Curse of the Elements-
  • PvP- This isn't really useful in PvP unless it's on drek/van
  • PvE- This is to be used on boss fights when you have plenty of fire/frost mages (90% of mages). In raids, usually there will be a warlock using elements, a warlock using shadow, and maybe a warlock using weakness
  
  -aslong as it's two decentgeared mages it's enough to cover the dps gap that coa would otherwise provide - or cos if you're a single lock, ofcourse you always cos if you have a spriest grouped, even if 3! firefrostmages
• Curse of Shadow-
  • PvP- Not really useful
    -Forgot drek or van?
  • PvE- This is to be used on boss fights for shadow priests, arcane mages, and other warlocks.
• Curse of Recklessness-
  • PvP- Helps the other faction, giving them fear immunity and more AP, not something to be used
  • PvE- Rank 1 can be used to stop runners, and break fear to prevent extra pulls
    -CoR highest rank gives a nice armor debuff that my guild so 1337 used pretbc, however the ap buff can get tremendously overbuffed on certain bosses, and then it should be avoided to be used
  • Only rank 1 should be used
• Curse of Exhaustion-
  • PvP- Extremely useful again melee classes and for running away from others
  • PvE- useful when kiting mobs
• Curse of Doom-
  • PvP- Cannot be used on enemy players /cry
  • PvE- Increases overall DPS on long boss fights
  
  -overall dps? Well no, just an supplement to CoA on bosses I'd like to say, aswell as some nice dps-like utility with the 1min blow effect, think Curator in Karazhan
  Does not increase overall dps in some way.
• Curse of Agony
  • PvP- High damage dot, useful
  • PvE- High damage dot, useful
    -CoA/CoS for trash CoD/CoS for bosses in a standard affliction lock build
    Imp CoA actually exceeds CoD's dps on bosses if everything is like it should be.

/70 raiding lock, Ravencrest

[Edge]

Nice guide, pretty easy to read...

I was about to start a warlock, I guess this will help me. +Rep'd.