[Guide] Some Warlock tips

[Bloodyme]

I wanted to give some tips for the locks who are not sure what enchants and gems to pick and some other tips.

I'll start with gems.

Meta gem: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41285 Is probably your best bet. A nice amount of crit rating and 3% crit damage is a nice boost.
Red slot: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40113 Again, warlocks should stack a lot of spellpower.
Yellow slot: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40155 Haste is also a very useful stat for warlocks. Haste means shorter cast time and shorter global cooldown.
Blue slot: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40133 If you want to get the socket bonus this is your best bet. As warlocks do benefit from spirit from Fel Armor and the Life Tap glyph.

Always try to get the socket bonus if it's spellpower. If it's not better stack some http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40155 or http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40113.

Major Glyphs:

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42453 As Incinerate is your main nuke spell, a 5% damage increase is a huge boost.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45785 Each time you use life tap you 20% of your spirit as spellpower. Try and keep this buff up all the time with Life Tap rank 1. If you do so your dps will be boosted by a few hundred. Or you can use http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42464 Instead if you don't have so much spirit.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42454 You no longer have to worry about your Immolate disappearing from your target when you use Conflagrate. You can use Conflagrate about 2 times per Immolate.

Minor Glyphs:

The only one I recommend is http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43390, because it simply makes farming soul shards a lot easier. You can choose yourself for the other slots.

Enchants:

-Head: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44159 Best and only choice, requires Revered with the Kirin Tor.
-Shoulder: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44135 Exalted with Sons of Hodir, OR [item]44129[/item] Requires Honored with Sons of Hodir.
-Chest: Depending on how much money you can spend either http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44465 OR http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38989
-Bracers: Depending on how much money you can spend either http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44470OR http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38997
-Hands: Only one choice really, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38979
-Belt: Not really an enchant but another gem slot: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41611
-Legs: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41602 OR http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41604 Depending if you want spirit or stamina.
-Feet: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38986 OR http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39006 Depending if you want run speed or crit/hit.
-Weapon: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38991 OR http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44467 Depending on the money you can spend.
-Rings: Rings can only be enchanted by Enchanters, enchant them with 23 spellpower ofcourse.

Talent Builds:

The most popular build atm is Destruction with this spec:
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

Demonology can also be a nice spec:
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

Or Affliction:
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

It's all your choice and the dps doesn't vary so much between each spec. Just play what you like the most I once had a demo warlock in the raid that put out even more dps than me in Destro and I asked him why he was Demo. He answered:

"It doesn't matter which spec you have, it does however matter how you play your spec and like it."

Rotations:

For Destruction it's really simple:

CoD OR CoE (Don't use it if there is a boomkin or unholy Dk in the raid, they provide a similair buff that doesn't stack) > Immolate > Chaos Bolt > Conflagrate > Incinerate till Conflagrate is up > Conflagrate > Immolate and so on.

Affliction:

Demonology:


Well the guide is almost done, if you have any questions at all or like to add anything please feel free to ask. I hope this guide is actually useful for anyone at all I just thought we warlocks could share some ideas and help eachother.

[ReAcTiOnZ]

I sniff copy + paste...

[Bloodyme]

No I made this myself... Why can nobody believe that someone actually wants to put effort into something?

[Fiberoxide]

Most of this is common sense for a decent warlock, but taking the time to put it together in a convenient package.. nice.. nice

thanks

[LindeCutah]

Defenetily replace that meta gem with Chaotic Skyflare Diamond (for destruction at least) 3% increased critical damage is way better and your threat shouldn't be a problem. Even if doing 7-8k dps shouldn't get you agro, if they do, tell your tank to l2p.

Decent summary but yeah, if you want to learn to play you don't go to here but to ie EJ. At least I do.

Edit: And, if glyphed Life Tap, the best (DPS) chest enchant you can get is +15 spirit, not the stats. Just for maximizing it ;-)

[Disphotic]

Why would you want -2% threat.. instead of 3% more crit dmg in meta gem...fail
Also you might wanna consider getting Glyph of Immolate instead of lifetap, as immolate glyph also gives 10% more dmg to conflagrate. Depends how much spirit you got for, I try to get as less as possible

EDIT: someone stated meta gem 1 sec before me :P

[Bloodyme]

Thanks for the tips! I will edit them in the guide

[KingYoshi9]

Additionally. Destro is more gear dependent then the other two specs, and currently DOES put out the highest dps.

If you want to know some of the best specs for your classes go to simulationcraft - Project Hosting on Google Code

It calculates the highest DPS for a given dps with given gear, using a given rotation.

It's a really nice program, but does require some setting up.

[Romulis2000]

a large factor for any of this is +hit if you dont meet ur hit requirement your spells are gonna miss or hit for smaller amounts a lock not specced into suppression needs 446 hit and one that is specced into it needs roughly a minimum of 300 before stacking anything else if ur gear doesnt get u close to hit cap id gem / enchant for hit and once u can not depend on gems and enchants then start stacking the other stats haste and such.

[boazjuggalo]

Also might want to mention that for Destro, (down to Chaos, not Destro/Demo). That you NEVER want more than the 2 Purified Dreadstones. Set bonus would have to be something along the terms of 15-20SP to make it worth it and your not going to see that. I've always seen it suggested (WoW forums/EJ) that you follow these steps...

This figures you have hit cap already and yadda yadda yadda... Basically don't follow this if your a moron about your class.



But question for any super experienced Warlocks on the forums... I have recently dusted mine off and started messing around with him. Read up on EJ as well as others and they are telling me that CoD is highest dmg potential. Spent about 3 hours on a target dummy in SW going through rotation and even solo I was getting higher dps out of CoE over CoD. Maybe it's a gear related thing? As I said I just dusted him off and he's at about 2200 gear score...

http://www.wow-heroes.com/index.php?...name=darkdread

Was pulling about 2800 with CoD, about 3k even with CoE.

[LindeCutah]

@ Boaz, CoD is your highest dmg spell for it's casting time and should always be up (except below 1 min on boss left, then agony) but you can only cast CoD if there's CoE up on the boss or you have a boomkin/unholy DK. If you're solo on target dummy ofcourse the 10% more spelldamage will overcome the CoD.

[boazjuggalo]

@ Boaz, CoD is your highest dmg spell for it's casting time and should always be up (except below 1 min on boss left, then agony) but you can only cast CoD if there's CoE up on the boss or you have a boomkin/unholy DK. If you're solo on target dummy ofcourse the 10% more spelldamage will overcome the CoD.

Thanks very much, kinda assumed the same just wasn't sure.

How exactly are curses working now? Only done 1 raid since dusting mine off so not sure. Is it 1 of each curse on each boss? Meaning only 1 CoD, only 1 CoE, only 1 CoA can be active at once? Or can 2 warlocks have 2 different CoD going at once?

[bagelmaker]

you can only have one COE & exhaustion up. You can have multiple everything else.

[t1mPan]

> Immolate > Conflagrate > that's just stupid, appearently you can't play warlock.

[boazjuggalo]

> Immolate > Conflagrate > that's just stupid, appearently you can't play warlock.

Iono, works for me too. If it's not your thing then why not shed some light instead of making a useless troll post.

Personally I think the guy did an excellent job on his thread and he's getting 3 points from me (2 i was gonna give and +1 because of you being a dick to him)