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Warlock DPS Abilities & Rotation Guide - WoW Classic Season of Mastery
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Welcome to Wowhead's DPS Warlock Rotation & Abilities Guide, updated for WoW Classic. In this guide, you will learn how to minmax the abilities of your Warlock for both single target and AoE scenarios. We will also go in-depth on all Warlock abilities, Warlock cooldowns, Warlock procs, everything to teach you how to make the most from them, in order to be more efficient and effective in dungeons and raids.
Besides individual strengths, this guide goes over how it all connects and how to use all Warlock abilities in combat, both in Dungeons and Raid scenarios, so you can reach the peak performance with your Warlock, enabling you to use all tools from your kit.
Our Warlock guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, theorycrafting, and logs; make sure to check our changelog to this page, by clicking on
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at the top of the page. If you are interested in more in-depth Warlock guides for WoW Classic, make sure to browse the
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just beneath the
Table of Contents
.
Overview
Leveling (1-60)
Beginners
Talents & Builds
BiS Gear
Rotation & Abilities
Stats
Enchants
Consumables
Addons
Macros
PvP
Dueling
PvP BiS Gear
Warsong Gulch Tips
Alterac Valley Tips
Arathi Basin Tips
About the Author
Terryn is a long-time wow player, having played the game since Christmas 2004, and has raided in every expansion in some fashion. Raiding experiences include: all 3 paladin specs, all 3 warrior specs, monk, and warlock, as well as regular PVP during TBC and Wrath on paladin and warlock. Previously a guide writer for Affliction Warlock in Legion, he is super excited to come back into Vanilla and relive the glory days. He will be posting guides on his
youtube
channel about all things classic, including warrior and warlocks, and his adventures running the Horde guild
<CUTE SHOES>
on an undetermined PVE server.
This guide was originally written by
ImAlive
, a long-time caster player. He has been active in the Classic WoW community for a long time and loves to theorycraft or crunch numbers! You can check him on his
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Discord Server
.
Warlock Rotation
Single Target
Basic Rotation
Assigned curse (
元素诅咒
,
暗影诅咒
,
鲁莽诅咒
,
厄运诅咒
, or
痛苦诅咒
)
生命虹吸
*
腐蚀术
献祭
**
暗影箭
* Only if
暗影易伤
is up. Leech effects snapshot external modifiers.
** In the first phase a most of the raid targets have inherent high fire resistance, making it so you should not be casting Immolate.
(Keep DoTs and curses up, Shadow bolt for the remainder of the time)
However, there are ways to improve your performance further. During any given boss encounter warlocks often find that their DoTs do not always align with their Shadowbolt casts, meaning corruption may fall off in 1.5 seconds, but Shadowbolt takes cast 2.5 seconds to cast. To optimize your gameplay for the least amount of downtime as possible, the warlock player can opt to use a life tap to replenish mana while properly timing their corruption reapplication.
暗影灼烧
is another spell that can be timed properly to optimize warlock DPS.
暗影灼烧
is an instant cast spell that has a spell power coefficient that is nearly half that of
暗影箭
, yet takes over half the cast time of shadow bolt (3/5 the time of shadow bolt since global cooldowns are 1.5 seconds). However, Shadow burn cannot apply
强化暗影箭
, but consumes a charge. This results in lower uptime of ISB and a loss of raid-wide shadow DPS. It also requires a
灵魂碎片
every time cast it. Knowing all of this,
暗影灼烧
seems as if it is not worth it to cast. However, the amount of an impact it has on ISB uptime can be offset by timing the use of Shadowburn. In an ideal world, you only use Shadowburn when there is a max stack of ISB up (or only 1 charge remaining and there is a shadowbolt in-flight already). This results in the lowest amount of ISB uptime loss at the biggest DPS gains. For more information see this
chart from Yazpad
, you can also join the
Classic Warlock Discord
for more in-depth info.
Lastly is how to maximize damage at the very end of a boss fight. Often a warlock's shadow bolt casts will not perfectly align with when the boss dies. A player might realize that the boss might die before they can get one last shadow bolt cast off. To maximize your damage output, the warlock can opt to cast a
灼热之痛
(unless the mob is fire immune) if there is just barely not enough time for a shadow bolt plus the shadow bolt's travel time. Following searing pain should be a
死亡缠绕
immediately followed by one last
暗影灼烧
. This same ending sequence can be used with shadow bolt as well if the warlock's shadow bolt casts just so happen to align with the boss' death. The goal here is not to have any dead time where the boss is alive and the warlock player isn't casting. A perfect ending to any boss is having the boss die precisely when your last spell damages the boss.
AoE
Basic Rotation
Run into melee range and cast channel
地狱烈焰
or from afar cast the less damaging but more safe ability,
火焰之雨
.
AoE scenarios, unlike single target, do not have a clear spell rotation, varying depending on how many enemies there are if the enemies have threatening melee range abilities that could damage you, and if the warlock player needs to move into
地狱烈焰
range. Typically
地狱烈焰
should only be used if there are 3 or more targets that can be damaged. If there are two targets, warlock players are better off multi-dotting (with what dots their raid allows them to use) followed by using the single target rotation. When there are 3+ enemies to AoE and the enemies are already on top of the warlock, the warlock player will gain the most DPS by merely starting to hellfire and not take the time to apply dots first. However, if there are enough enemies to warrant using hellfire and the enemies are
not
in range of hellfire, Warlock players will want to use either
腐蚀术
or
痛苦诅咒
on each enemy while they are moving into hellfire position (deciding which of the two dots to use depends on how long you believe the enemies will live). Once in hellfire range, stop casting dots even if you are unable to put a dot on every target and proceed to channel hellfire.
NOTICE
地狱烈焰
drains life from the warlock periodically when channeled and can often time pull aggro. Make sure to have a
有限无敌药水
ready to use in case of pulling aggro off of the tank.
Furthermore, some enemies have abilities that damage their surrounding area. If this is the case, stay back and cast
火焰之雨
instead.
Learning Warlock Spells and Warlock Spell Ranks
Instead of having abilities passively grow in power as your character levels up, in Classic WoW each ability is split out into many ranks. That means that most Warlock abilities will require you to visit a Warlock Trainer in order to learn higher ranks as you level up. Some abilities even have special ranks, only learnable via special tomes found around the world.
As you level to 60 in Classic WoW, new abilities will unlock every two levels. In order to train them, you must visit a
Warlock Class Trainer
, usually located in a major city. In this rotation guide, when talking about abilities, it is usually implied that we’re talking about the max rank unless stated otherwise.
However, in our Classic WoW Spell database, you can browse all available ranks for Warlock abilities, seeing what level you can train each rank at, as well as how much damage each one does.
Click here to see all class ability ranks for your Warlock
Warlock Offensive Abilities
腐蚀术
. The primary DoT used by warlocks in PvE.
暗影箭
. The most used and most damaging spell used in single target PvE.
暗影灼烧
. An instant cast burst spell typically used to finish off enemies.
灼热之痛
. Used to generate threat or for single target damage if the warlock player is unable to fit in a Shadow Bolt before a target dies.
献祭
. One of the DoT staple spells. Note that a lot of the early content has high fire resistance.
死亡缠绕
. Can be used as a small amount of burst damage or as a crowd controlling effect.
火焰之雨
. Secondary AoE spell used if Hellfire is too dangerous.
地狱烈焰
. Primary AoE spell. Does more DPS than Rain of Fire, but puts the player at more risk.
痛苦诅咒
. If all other primary curses are taken care this is one of the remaining DPS curses. This spell can also be amplified to deal more damage. However, if a target lives long enough Curse of Doom should be used instead.
厄运诅咒
. More powerful than a non-amplified Curse of Agony.
吸取生命
. Rarely used due to its low DPS. However, can come in handy during tricky situations where the healers don't have the possibility to heal you.
生命虹吸
(For SM/Ruin only). Ideally, this debuff is only applied once ISB is up as well. This is due to the nature of leech spells snapshotting on debuffs. The self-healing can also help offset the health loss from life tapping.
Warlock Defensive Abilities
牺牲
. A voidwalker ability that can be used to absorb damage that could cause spellcasting pushback or keep the warlock alive.
防护暗影结界
. Useful on fights where the warlock will take shadow damage.
特效灵魂石
. Used on other raid members to enable a battle-rez type effect or prevent a full wipe. Typically used on healers.
特效治疗石
. Very useful to all raid members. Do not share a cooldown with potions.
恐惧术
. Single target crowd controlling effect, but the target runs unpredictably.
恐惧嚎叫
. AoE crowd controlling effect, but the targets run unpredictably.
放逐术
. Used often in raids to take one enemy Demon/Elemental out of the fight (Can break early).
特效法术石
. Can be used to absorb extra damage in a boss ecounter, but is generally not needed.
Warlock Utility Abilities
元素诅咒
. One of the core debuffs used on every boss.
暗影诅咒
. One of the core debuffs used on every boss.
鲁莽诅咒
. One of the core debuffs used on every boss.
语言诅咒
. Can be used on threatening caster trash mobs to give your raid more time to interrupt.
虚弱诅咒
. Some bosses, such as Chromaggus, have unavoidable enraging effects where the tank will take heavy damage.
火焰之盾
. A buff that is used on tanks so that they can generate more threat. Primarily for AoE tanking.
血之契印
. A buff that is used in the tank group to give the tanks more health.
召唤仪式
. Allows team members to be transported to the warlock from anywhere in the world.
Debuffs in Classic WoW
Be mindful when using Warlock spells that apply debuffs on enemies that they may only have 16 debuffs on them at a time, including raid bosses. With this limitation, usually large raid groups will assign specific players to apply certain debuffs, while others refrain from using them. Learn more about Debuff management in Classic and what are the sought-after debuffs for a raid in our
Classic Debuff Management Guide
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评论
评论来自
Jaylock
Wow the warlock class rotation is highly complex in classic!
评论来自
KrelianLock
So like, you didn't list the biggest nuke in their spellbook? Soul Fire is not an offensive ability?
评论来自
Thranduel
Can you explain how
灵魂碎片
s work? It appears you get them from using
吸取灵魂
on a mob just before it dies, but I don't see any mention them on the rotation page. I remember back in the vanilla days our Warlocks used to spend a bunch of time before raids filling their bags with
灵魂碎片
s to make
特效治疗石
etc. Do you need to farm these during a dungeon or a raid too, if so how do you work this into your rotation?
Thanks.
评论来自
Lawkstarz
Why did we say: " Shadowburn is an instant cast spell that has a spell power coefficient that is nearly half that of Shadow Bolt, yet takes over half the cast time of shadow bolt..." ? Who proofread this guide?
I was hoping to get some detail on things like how is wand damage calculated and comparing wands to staves and things like Does bonus spell damage affect the spell school of my wand.. You know, basic stuff..
评论来自
Lawkstarz
Why did we say: " Shadowburn is an instant cast spell that has a spell power coefficient that is nearly half that of Shadow Bolt, yet takes over half the cast time of shadow bolt..." ? Who proofread this guide?
I was hoping to get some detail on things like how is wand damage calculated and comparing wands to staves and things like Does bonus spell damage affect the spell school of my wand.. You know, basic stuff..
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