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Warlock DPS Talents & Builds Guide – WoW Classic Season of Mastery
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Welcome to Wowhead's DPS Warlock Talents Classic Guide, updated for WoW Classic! In this guide, we will cover every Warlock Talent in their talent tree, how useful it is in both PvE and PvP situations, as well as covering the best Warlock talent builds and best Warlock specs in both PvE and PvP environments.
In WoW Classic, Warlocks must visit a
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in order to change their talent tree selections. This process has a cost attached to it, which starts as a small fee but increases every time you perform it, up to a cap of . This cost is reduced by per month, to a minimum of .
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Overview
Leveling (1-60)
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Talents & Builds
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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
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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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WoW Classic PvE Talent Builds for Warlocks
Demonic Sacrifice / Ruin (9/21/21) Warlock Talent Build
The Demonic Sacrifice or "
DS
" spec is the best spec for "Patchwork style" fights, where there are no forced movements. The spec revolves around summoning your Succubus to use the ability
恶魔牺牲
to sacrifice it for 15% more shadow damage and the talent
毁灭
. This allows the warlock to have the biggest critical hits possible with their primary spell, Shadow Bolt. Not only does Demonic Sacrifice buff your damage, but it also gives you better mana generation via
生命分流
. It just so happens that the damage you do to yourself with Life Tap is shadow damage! So, while Demonic Sacrificing your Succubus, your Life Tap will generate 15% more mana!
Filler Talents:
邪恶强化
恶魔耐力
Optional Talents:
灾变
can be swapped for
强化灼热之痛
镇压
can be swapped for
强化灼热之痛
. However, if you don't have a significant amount of hit it might not be optimal due to curses, and corruption potentially missing.
You can take only 1 point into
强化治疗石
in order to have more different healthstones.
Notice:
强化虚空行者
,
恶魔支配
, and
召唤大师
are NOT optional or filler talents! These three talents can be utilized in any fight that damages the warlock, causing spell pushback. Before pulling a boss that has these sort of effects (ie:
堕落的瓦拉斯塔兹
,
费尔默
, etc) the warlock can summon their Voidwalker, use
牺牲
for a large bubble, then
恶魔支配
along with
召唤大师
will allow you to almost instantly summon a
召唤魅魔
to
恶魔牺牲
. Keeping the Voidwalker bubble.
Shadow Mastery / Ruin (30/0/21) Warlock Talent Build
The Shadow Mastery or "
SM
" spec is usually the more uncommon spec to raid with. This spec sacrifices a bit of damage for more utility. A warlock with this spec is able to have a pet out while raiding. Usually, this pet is the
召唤小鬼
, to use its
血之契印
ability while in the tank's group.
The most notable abilities this spec contains are probably the ability
夜幕
and
生命虹吸
.
夜幕
feels great when it procs, and it will proc often on cleave fights.
生命虹吸
gets a spot as well in the rotation now that the debuff limit is removed. Due to it being a leech effect (life-stealing in other words) the DoT snapshots. Meaning if you apply it whilst
暗影易伤
is up, it will keep dealing the 20% higher damage even if Improved Shadowbolt falls off.
Filler Talents:
疲劳诅咒
(most raid NPC's are immune to its effects), though still really useful for PvP.
Points in
镇压
can be dropped once you have more hit on your gear.
Optional Talents:
强化虚弱诅咒
can be taken if your raid group uses the curse.
强化火焰箭
only matters for fights where you can use your imp outside of
相位变换
(not often). Instead you can opt for
灾变
or
强化灼热之痛
Master Demonologist / Ruin (0/30/21) Warlock Talent Build
The Master Demonologist or "
MD
" spec is for raids where the warlock consistently finds themselves at high threat and needing to stop their DPS due to being at the threat cap. This build sacrifices the damage bonuses from either
暗影掌握
and
恶魔牺牲
. It also does not gain the luxury of having stronger
生命分流
and the utility of instant cast
腐蚀术
. Warlocks should only be using this spec if they absolutely have to because doing lesser damage is better than not being able to do any damage at all due to being threat capped!
Filler Talents:
None
Optional Talents:
None
WoW Classic PvP Talent Builds for Warlocks
Soul Link/ Nightfall (20/31/0) Warlock Talent Build
This is a fantastic starting pvp build that focuses on survival.
灵魂链接
is the bread and butter of this build. This ability makes the warlock so incredibly difficult to kill that many enemies may not want to engage in fighting you at all! Soul link is not only the tanky talent in this build. Players also have access to
恶魔学识大师
. Against any melee, the voidwalker's bonus of 10% damage reduction is an incredible benefit to have. When fighting any casters the Felhunter's addition of 60 bonus to all resistances can make or break the fight. Since this build puts all of its remaining points into the affliction tree it tends to lack single target damage output and ways to execute targets. Instead, this build allows the warlock to play the roll of battlefield manipulation by fearing a target, putting your felhunter on another spellcaster target, pressuring their healers with multi-dotting, and more!
Soul Link / Nightfall is particularly useful early game since the only stats the build cares about are stamina and spellpower. This means it does not require much gear to be effective.
Filler Talents:
恶魔智力
Optional Talents:
Fewer points can be put into
镇压
based on the amount of hit you have on your gear (or if you are only ganking lowbies).
Soul Link/ Shadowburn (8/31/12) Warlock Talent Build
Similar to the previous build, this spec also has incredible durability from the demonology tree. However, this build trades off the deep affliction talents in favor of becoming more of a single target threat that can actually finish off opponents quickly.
灾祸
allows the warlock to cast their single-target damaging spells faster. Not only will this apply more pressure, but it also makes interruption of your cast more difficult and allows you to be a bit more mobile.
暗影灼烧
is a great way for the warlock to finish off any low health targets or combo together after casting a
暗影箭
for potentially large burst damage.
Since this build focuses less on DoTs and more on single target damage, critical strike rating gains value on top of having stamina and spellpower. Since more stats are necessary to make this build optimal, it requires a bit more gear than the previous Soul Link build.
Filler Talents:
恶魔智力
Optional Talents:
As soon as you have 1% Spel Hit chance you should drop a point from
镇压
in favor of
强化生命分流
.
Shadow Mastery/ Ruin PvP (30/0/21) Warlock Talent Build
The previous Soul Link based builds are tanky builds that either rely on multi dotting to apply pressure or utilizing single target damage. This build sacrifices the tankiness you would get from the demonology tree to be able to have both multi dot pressure and single target kill potential. Naturally, this means that with this build the player will not be able to get into the thick of the fight as much but instead will be looking to play in the back lines. There are some abilities in this build that keep the warlock from being too vulnerable which are
疲劳诅咒
and
生命虹吸
. Warlocks can get increasingly difficult to kill when they are able to apply Siphon Life to more and more targets. Curse of Exhaustion is a great spell to use to slow down enemy flag carriers or just an easy way to be able to kite melee players.
The Shadow Mastery / Ruin build is a damaging build that utilizes both DoTs and single target damage. This means that the player will want large amounts of spellpower and some crit rating. Additionally, stamina is needed for any pvp build so the player is not susceptible to burst damage. Thus, this build can require quite a bit of gear before it reaches its optimal state.
Filler Talents:
None
Optional Talents:
None
Conflagrate (19/1/31) Warlock Talent Build
The last build is the most fragile build of them all. Although it is fragile, it has the highest damage capability. Having
夜幕
,
暗影灼烧
, and
燃烧
all in one build means the death of your opponents. In fact, with the proper gear and a little luck, you can burst an enemies full health bar! Sadly since this build is so fragile it is best not to use it against multiple enemies. It excels against fighting 1 or 2 enemies that can be locked down with either
恐惧术
,
诱惑
,
地精火箭头盔
,
侏儒撒网器
, etc. If you are playing this build in a team fight scenario it is very important to stay on the backlines just looking for enemies to pick off.
This build focuses on crit, spellpower, and stamina. In that order. While this build sometimes allows you to instantly cast
暗影箭
or hard cast
灵魂之火
, which both have good spellpower ratios, you will mainly rely on your instant cast spells for burst which has very poor spellpower scaling. Additionally, this builds main focus is to kill one target quickly. For these reasons, crit rating is very important to pull this build off successfully. I recommend only trying to pull this build off once you have required a significant amount of offensive raid gear.
Filler Talents:
None
Optional Talents:
None
WoW Classic Overview of Talents for Warlocks
Affliction Tree Talents
镇压
While this talent point does not affect all of the warlock's spell or even their primary DPS spell,
暗影箭
, it is still very useful for applying any of the warlock's curses and dots. Examples of spells affected by this talent point include
暗影诅咒
,
元素诅咒
,
鲁莽诅咒
, and
腐蚀术
. Missing any of these abilities can severely affect a warlock's DPS since all abilities have a 1.5-second global cooldown.
强化腐蚀术
While you technically only need 3/5 points (2/5 would put you at 1.6 seconds) in this talent to cast faster than the 1.5-second global cooldown, essentially making the cast "instant," it is still useful to get the full 5/5 points. Maxing this talent out allows the warlock to be able to put
腐蚀术
while moving which is a massive benefit.
强化虚弱诅咒
虚弱诅咒
is not used often since the damage it mitigates is not significantly impactful or necessary in most circumstances, it still has some niche roles to fill. Some bosses, such as
克洛玛古斯
, have unavoidable enraging effects where the tank will take heavy damage. During these times guilds may opt to use
虚弱诅咒
if the damage output is too difficult to heal through.
强化吸取灵魂
This talent sounds stronger than it is. Not only do warlocks severely lack the spirit to make it work, to trigger the effect of this ability the warlock has to not only get the very last damaging blow on the target, but the target has to die from
吸取灵魂
specifically! In a 40 person raid the likelihood of your drain soul doing the very last hit of damage is so unlikely that this talent rarely ever triggers, making it not worth picking up.
强化生命分流
This talent is a
MUST TAKE
ability. In any given raid warlock players will find themselves using
生命分流
dozens of times. Even if you are using mana regenerating consumables. Improving the amount of mana that life tap grants mean that the player will be able to cut down on the number of times they will need to cast life tap throughout a raid. The fewer life taps used means more global cooldowns saved, thus increasing overall DPS throughout the raid. Moreover,
生命分流
scales with shadow damage, further increasing the benefit of this talent.
强化吸取生命
吸取生命
does not have amazing DPS from the get-go. Increasing it further means you only get marginal gains. Most often this talent is not worth picking up.
强化痛苦诅咒
The issue with this talent is that it only affects the base damage of the spell. Resulting in very minor gains compared to other talents.
恶魔专注
In raids you will not be draining often, and you should especially not be needing pushback reduction. However for leveling this a core talent for drain tanking. As is this incredibly valuable for PvP.
诅咒增幅
This talent really only comes into play any time the warlock is permitted to use
痛苦诅咒
. It however is a significant buff and only requires a single point to pick up.
无情延伸
Talents that increase the range of your abilities are very strong in Classic WoW. With these sorts of talents, warlock players will be able to not only position themselves better, but will also be able to avoid some abilities that players without extended range cannot. A good example of this would be
恐慌
used by
玛格曼达
.
夜幕
夜幕
is one of the primary reasons people spec deep into the affliction tree. During a single target boss fight, this talent may only get you 1 or 2 extra
暗影箭
. However, this talent really starts to shine in scenarios where warlocks are can multi-dot.
强化吸取法力
吸取法力
is only used in extremely niche situations such as draining mana from
莫阿姆
, but even on this boss draining mana is not absolutely necessary to kill him. Since this ability is so situational, it is not recommended to invest points into it.
暗影掌握
This talent is the bread and butter of speccing deep into the affliction tree. Almost all of a warlock's damage in PvE is going to come from shadow damage except their AoE. This talent is essential for any affliction build.
黑暗契约
This talent is amazing for leveling. It may be a max-tier talent point but you get it around the halfway point in your leveling journey. For raiding this talent being a "final" talent in a talent tree, it really is not too good. Warlocks that are specced deep into the affliction tree will never usually reach this talent since that would mean they would miss out on
毁灭
, which is incredibly important. Additionally, dark pact does not scale with spell power or any other stat like
生命分流
does. For these reasons, this talent is not powerful enough to talent into.
Demonology Tree Talents
强化治疗石
特效治疗石
, the version of healthstone after the effects of this talent is incredibly useful. Particularly because this item does not share a cooldown with potions. Tanks are able to use healthstones and
特效治疗药水
simultaneously if their health dips dangerously low. Moreover, DPS and healers are able to restore health with healthstones while using DPS or mana-increasing potions. Different ranks in this talent also allow for the use of different types of healthstones.
强化小鬼
Although this talent is useful, it is only actually included in the "Master Demonologist" spec. Which is not used often. Out of the other two viable raiding specs, only "Shadow Mastery/Ruin" uses an imp as a pet. However, this talent build has is unable to use any points to put into improved imp. If they do, they would miss out on either
暗影掌握
or
毁灭
.
恶魔之拥
This talent is significantly valuable. First, let us look at the trade-off this talent offers. For every 1% spirit lost the warlock player will gain 3% stamina. Not only is this a three-to-one trade, but warlocks use health as a resource! Furthermore, out of all of the spell casting classes, warlock has the worst scaling with spirit. Demonic Embrace is a strong choice for any build that focuses on the Demonology tree.
强化生命通道
Warlocks in Classic WoW will never need to use this talent. The only three demons a warlock player typically would use in any given raid is either
小鬼
,
虚空行者
, or
魅魔
. The voidwalker is typically used for the shield it provides with its ability
牺牲
and the succubus is used along with
恶魔牺牲
. In either circumstance, the demon is not actually used for its combative prowess. The only one of the three demons mentioned that is used for its damage output is the imp and any time the imp is approaching a dangerous situation, the warlock player can simply use
相位变换
to avoid taking damage rather than trying to heal the pet through the damage it takes.
强化虚空行者
Improved voidwalker is a deceptively good talent. Players will rarely ever use voidwalker to tank anything. Making the improvement to torment, consume shadows, and suffering all useless. However, improving
牺牲
by 30% increases the bubble you receive by 571 damage! This shield can be used before a pull in situations where the warlock will be taking unavoidable damage. Not only does this improved shield help you survive, but also grants the warlock more time to cast without experiencing pushback on their spells!
恶魔智力
Out of the two talent builds that delve into the demonology tree (Demonic Sacrifice/Ruin and Master Demonologist/Ruin) only one actively has their demon out and that is the Master Demonologist/Ruin. For that talent build, this talent becomes quite useful since the primary pet used in the build is the Imp, which is highly dependant on its mana.
强化萨亚德
Improving the effectiveness of your Succubus' abilities is never necessary for Classic raiding. One could make the argument that the bonus from using a succubus along with
恶魔学识大师
could be good. However, the succubus is a fragile demon that will easily die under most raid scenarios. Especially since it has to enter melee range to be able to attack.
恶魔支配
This talent is particularly useful for warlocks aiming for the "Demonic Sacrifice/Ruin" build, allowing them to perform the "FelDom trick." What this entails is being able to summon a voidwalker normally before engaging any boss encounter that has unavoidable and consistent damage (such as
堕落的瓦拉斯塔兹
and
费尔默
). As your main tank is about to pull the boss the warlock player will use the voidwalker's
牺牲
. Immediately following, use
恶魔支配
to instantly summon a succubus to use
恶魔牺牲
on. This way the warlock player has their demonic sacrifice buff that should always be up and have a shield all without missing a single moment of the boss encounter!
恶魔耐力
Fel stamina, unlike Fel Intellect, is not a talent used for Classic warlock raiding. The stamina gained through this ability is not significant enough to allow your demon tanking to be noticeably more impactful. Furthermore, the only demon commonly used actively in classic raids is the imp, which can use its
相位变换
to avoid damage.
召唤大师
Master Summoner is needed to be able to do the "Fel Dom" trick previously mentioned. This talent, along side
恶魔支配
, allows the warlock player to summon a demon in just 0.5 seconds!
邪恶强化
Although this talent directly increases the damage of your non-Imp demons, it is actually not that useful. The only two viable raiding talent builds that actively use pets will primarily be using the imp. However, this talent is mandatory to get if the player is planning to spec into
恶魔学识大师
.
强化征服恶魔
Unfortunately in Classic WoW warlocks are unable to bring enslaved demons from the open-world into any given raid. When the player tries to, the demon will simply stay outside of the instance portal. Warlocks could technically enslave a demon within a raid, but demons within raids are typically level 63 which is over the level cap of
征服恶魔
.
恶魔牺牲
This talent is a must for the "Demonic Sacrifice/Ruin" raiding build. Hence why the build is named after it! Typically, raiding warlocks will want demonic sacrifice their succubus granting them 15% increased shadow damage! The succubus is not the only demon that utilizes the demonic sacrifice talent though. In situations where the warlock is looking to primarily AoE with either
地狱烈焰
or
火焰之雨
, then he/she will need to demonic sacrifice their imp for 15% increased fire damage.
强化火焰石
Firestones are not too useful in Classic WoW since they take up the warlock's offhand slot and there are other choices for the slot with better stats (such as
火焰魔法宝典
). Therefore, this talent is not optimal to put points into.
恶魔学识大师
Master Demonologist is only viable in the PvE spec "Master Demonologist/Ruin", hence why it is named after the talent! The primary reason anyone would go this far down in the demonology tree in PvE is to reach this talent so that they could use the imp to reduce threat reduction. However, there are some niche areas that will allow players following this spec to swap to succubus for added damage if they feel that their pet will be able to live through the boss encounter and their threat will not be an issue.
灵魂链接
Soul link is an extremely menacing ability. However, it is not used in raiding since anyone going far enough in the demonology tree to reach this ability will miss out on too many crucial other DPS increasing talents. Even though it is not so viable in PvE, it is one of the absolute strongest abilities to have for pvp!
强化法术石
Spellstone is useful in some niche scenarios in PvE. However, this talent only grants
制造特效法术石
270 extra damage absorption which is good, but not worth committing the number of talent points necessary to reach this far down in the demonology tree.
Destruction Tree Talents
强化暗影箭
Although this talent is in the first tier of the destruction tree it is immensely powerful! Actually, this talent is one of the reasons why warlock players value critical strike rating so highly for PvE! With
暗影箭
leaving this debuff on a target, it will not only affect your damage, but any shadow damage done to the target! That means that the more warlocks that are in the raid and the higher the crit rating that those warlocks have the more the warlocks' and shadow priests' damage will increase!
灾变
All forms of mana cost reduction is useful in Classic WoW. For warlocks, the more mana you save the less amount of times you will have to
生命分流
. The fewer times you have to life tap the more time you will have to cast
暗影箭
!
灾祸
Although Bane effects three spells,
暗影箭
,
献祭
, and
灵魂之火
, the two used in raids are
暗影箭
primarily and a
献祭
from time to time. One of the best parts of this talent besides simply reducing casting time is that it keeps the spell's spellpower coefficients intact! Normally in Classic WoW, the longer the cast time or duration of a spell the better the spellpower coefficient is. Even though this talent reduces cast time, the spell's affected by this talent still scale off of their base cast time.
清算
Aftermath is a talent that is not too impactful in Classic raids. The dazing effect this talent applies a slowing effect on enemies. However, all bosses and some trash mobs are immune to slowing effects. Even when certain enemies do need to be slowed, other classes have more effective ways to do so.
强化火焰箭
Both "Shadow Mastery/Ruin" and "Master Demonologist/Ruin" talent builds use the imp not only for buffs to their group, but additional DPS as well. In both of these builds players will want to take this talent to reduce the cast time of
火焰箭
by half!
强化剧痛鞭笞
While this talent is similar to the previous one (improved firebolt) in which it reduces the cooldown of the ability by half, players will not want to put talent points into this. The succubus is a much more fragile pet compared to the imp due to it not being able to
相位变换
to avoid damage as the imp can. Moreover, the succubus is a melee range-based attacker which can oftentimes put it in even more danger.
破坏
This talent is an absolute
MUST
have talent! Critical strike rating is a wonderful talent to have for any spellcaster DPS class in Classic WoW, but to add to its value warlocks will also have
强化暗影箭
to make this talent even more useful! Let us not forget that Devastation is also a prerequisite talent for
毁灭
.
暗影灼烧
This ability is important to pick up in any PvE talent build. Warlocks do not have many instant-cast abilities and this one even deals shadow damage! Instant cast abilities allow the warlock player to continue to use damaging abilities any time they need to move during an encounter. Even though instant cast abilities have poor scaling with spellpower, the fact that this one deals shadow damage allows spells to deal significant damage when proper debuffs are applied to the target.
强烈
The majority of the time that warlocks are channeling their AoE spells there won't be any abilities that cause too much of a pushback. However, if your tank is not confident in their AoE tanking abilities and you over aggro this talent will come in handy (if you don't die..). This talent is a prerequisite for a more useful talent in the next tier of the destruction tree.
毁灭延伸
Having increased range on your abilities does not affect the warlock on every single boss, but on some bosses, it can make or break your performance. Many bosses in Classic WoW have various different abilities, such as AoE fearing effects that warlocks are able to completely outrange only if they have this extended range.
强化灼热之痛
灼热之痛
is not a spell that warlocks will want to use frequently. Its DPS is not nearly as high as
暗影箭
. However, oftentimes there will be enemies that die too quickly to fit in a shadow bolt, but not quick enough to warrant only using
暗影灼烧
. That is where searing pain comes in! Searing pain is a great filler spell for scenarios just like that to maximize your damage output. Improved Searing Pain can be a great filler talent to put a few points in to progress further down the destruction tree.
火焰冲撞
In every single raid in Classic WoW warlocks will find themselves able to AoE in multiple different scenarios. Having Pyroclasm can help mitigate incoming damage to tanks and sometimes even interrupt spell casts from enemies.
强化献祭
While the talent would normally be great, it is not viable to spec into it. In earlier raids (
熔火之心
and
黑翼之巢
) enemies have such high resistances to fire that they will either resist a large portion of the damage from immolate or be immune to it completely. Furthermore, speccing this far into the destruction tree forces the warlock to sacrifice other great talents in other trees.
毁灭
This is the talent that is required by every single viable raiding spec in classic wow and for good reason. Spells in classic wow have a critical strike multiplier of 150%. With Ruin the critical strike multiplier is increased by a whopping 50%, up to 200% increased damage! Having this talent is essential towards maximizing your damage output.
灰烬风暴
Out of all of the talents throughout all three of the warlock talent trees Emberstorm has some of the best point-for-point values. The only problem with speccing far into destruction tree is that a warlock's fire spells do not have enough support to make it a viable raiding spec.
灵魂之火
has a great spellpower scaling, but has a 1-minute cooldown and uses a
灵魂碎片
every time.
灼热之痛
has no cooldown, but has poor spellpower scaling and also generates an increased amount of threat.
献祭
also does not have great spellpower scaling and is not spammable since the player will be constantly overwriting their own DoT. This leaves Emberstorm truly only making you AoE stronger, but that is not enough to warrant spending talent points into it.
燃烧
Conflagrate, another instant cast spell is useful, but is essentially a lesser version of
暗影灼烧
. Conflagrate deals fire damage and not shadow, meaning it will have less % damage multipliers than a shadow spell would and it also requires the warlock to spend time casting
献祭
. Conflagrate can be great in PvP, but is simply not a viable talent for Classic WoW raiding.
Leveling WoW Classic Warlock Talent Builds
For leveling as a Warlock you can't go wrong with leveling as Affliction. Drain tanking is by far the best Warlock specialization in Classic:
Affliction
- Affliction is widely considered to be the best talent tree for leveling warlock as it gives you access to instant cast
腐蚀术
, as well as
生命虹吸
. You will have a lot of passive damage as Affliction through placing damage over time effects (DoTs) on your enemies; between these DoTs, your pet, and your class' toolkit, killing several enemies at a time will be possible.
Drain Tanking
- As you gain stats from leveling and gear, your pet will be struggling to keep threat off of you. Unfortunately, even with points in
强化虚空行者
, your blueberry will struggle with keeping threat off you for very long. So, drain tanking is the most appropriate build - Using talents to increase the effectiveness of
吸取生命
, you are able to maintain yourself healthy while taking on enemies. With talents like
黑暗契约
to supplant your Mana, you will have little downtime from mob to mob.
For an in depth look at leveling talents for Warlocks, see our guide,
Warlock Leveling Guide & Best Leveling Talents 1-60 - WoW Classic
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评论
评论来自
BigBadDad
SM/DS pvp build is a real thing but I don't see it listed here with the other pvp specs.
You get some sweet dot damage on it. It's great for players not interested in raiding since it is focused on dot damage. You sac your succy for the increased shadow damage. You just keep corruption, agony, and siphon life on as many targets as possible and mana tap/drain health to sustain. Non crit shadowbolts still hurt. The burst isn't anything like Ruin builds but the spread rot potential is amazing.
It's just a fun and a different spec for those not interested in raiding.
评论来自
MattSinz
You forgot sm/ds.
评论来自
Maxim84
But what about sl/sl?
评论来自
Wardom
"You technically only need 3/5 points in this talent to counteract the 1.5 second global cooldown"
Is this saying that Corruption's 1.5 sec GCD becomes a 1.0 GCD after 3 points in Improved Corruption? Because if its just talking about making the cast time shorter than the 1.5 sec GCD than you only need two points in the talent for a 1.2 sec cast time.
评论来自
Kapulio
i can't see the DS Ruin build - there's only a pic of the affliction skill tree.
may you re-upload that? thanks!
评论来自
TeeLoW
Drain soul does NOT have to be the killing blow damage to trigger the imp drain soul mana regen. I just wanted to correct this because this is a great talent. The target has to die from the casting warlock yes but the only requirement is that drain soul is channeling on the target when it dies. Any source of the warlocks damage while channeling (CoA, Corruption, Siphon, Immo) can kill the target and proc imp drain soul.
评论来自
Wholol
I don't know where everyone keeps getting their info from but as a reviewer I have to put things out there to rectify some of the misinformation floating around these guides.
1) Improved drain life is a bait talent and should never be taken, here's some math to back up my claims
Let us assume you are max level and are using drain life rank 6, with somewhere between full pre-raid bis to early raiding gear netting you an average of around 300 shadow spell damage give or take.
Drain life spell co-efficiency is 50% due to it's healing component, as such you would only benefit from half of your shadow damage, in this case only 150.
150/5= 30.
30+71 = 101 dmg/sec before %s.
(without improved drain life): 101*1.1= 111 dmg/sec
(with improved drain life): (101*1.1)*1.1= 122 dmg/sec
The difference of using 5/5 improved drain life is only : 122-111= 11 dmg/sec ; or a total of 55 damage/health gained, that is 11 extra damage per talent point, as you can see, it is abysmally weak even given optimal gear state for phase 1 as well as having shadow mastery, so it is advised to invest your points elsewhere, especially if you aren't going deep enough to get shadow mastery or maxing out improved drain life, in such cases where only putting a few points into it just for filler purposes would merely be throwing said points down the drain.
Highly recommend dumping filler points elsewhere.
2) Improved life tap is a MUST HAVE, in any scenario. Even in pvp the talents are picked, the less you have to hurt your hp to get mana back the better, this is especially useful when attempting to outlast players or when subjected to mana draining effects. Wasting points into garbage talents like improved drain life while keeping 0/2 in life tap is folly.
3) Fel concentration is a better "filler" to dump points into if you don't know where to put them,if you value having some form of emergency drain in case you need it, it is always better to put the points in concentration as having drain life pushed back even once will hurt you far more than having 10 extra hp on a tick, drain life is only slightly more efficient than it's mana cost at max rank and getting a single pushback on it shifts that into the negative value, since hp and mana are both resources warlocks have to manage, spending more mana to heal an amount that you will have to life tap into again will only bring you back to square one, it is always better to gain resources when using drains than to lose them.
4) curse of exhaustion is never worth taking at base value, if you choose to pick this talent up you should at the very least put 1 point into improved exhaustion so that when you amplify it your slow will be above 30% value, since the breaking point between a regular jog speed and walking is at 28% speed, a 30% slow on a person with movement speed enchant on boots will not break their stride and they will still catch up to you, at the very least you need 1 points into improved exhaustion to avoid this, though in most cases going down this path often leads to 3/4 improved exhaustion until you unlock shadow mastery. If you do not wish to invest down this path , do not pick the base curse of exhaustion talent period and instead dump your filler points into fel concentration.
5) Aftermath is a type of talent you either max or skip, 2/5 as a "filler" isn't worth it, 4% chance that your destruction spells will daze is abysmally low and an unreliable way of slowing someone as most of the time locks are either 1-2 shotting people at range while they are CCed or a melee is already on top of you with no room of actually benefiting from the slow, there is no in between where you will kite using this.
A better allocation of points for a pvp lock would be 2/5 improved searing pain as that increases your crit chance and searing pain has immense value when fighting melee classes that are in your face as it provides a 2nd school upon which you may bait interrupts on.
6) Going for a Nightfall/conflagrate build is dedicating yourself to the glass-canon playstyle, putting 1 point into demonic embrace instead of maxing out emberstorm is silliness at best, that 3% extra stamina is not going to save you if you fail to kill your opponent before they kill you, getting that extra 2% fire damage could be anything from 50-300 extra damage on a conflag or soul fire crit, which vastly out-weighs 1 point into demonic embrace...
7) improved firebolt for your Imp is only tolerated as an MD/ruin build, in any other situation ( especially a pve version of SM/ruin) you would be better spent using those 2 points into cataclysm since you will most likely be keeping your imp phase shifted so it doesnt die of collateral damage and most of your damage will be from chugging shadowbolts so reducing the mana cost of those will in fact be a much bigger dps increase than upping your imps' firebolts in this build.
I hope I've cleared up some of the misinformation in this guide so that people looking for help can get the proper info.
评论来自
highelfguy
So, while Demonic Sacrificing your Succubus, your Life Tap will generate 15% more mana!
No it does not. Whether you Sac your Succubus or not, life tap generates same amount of mana.
评论来自
kve1
if you are going into affliction tree for Shadow Mastery:
do not put points into improved drain life - drain life is useless without fel concentration, and amount of increased life drained is a joke
do not put points into improved CoA - 6% damage increase equals 80 damage per 15 sec, doesnt worth it
better put points into fel concentration: this talent allows you to fish for nightfall procs with drain life and makes your PvE life much better (drain tanking)
here is the best way to put points in affliction tree:
https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/warlock/3500200512201135
评论来自
Rothia
Don't forget about this
Pure-Destruction PvP
spec:
https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/embed/warlock/-205-0555005122525151
评论来自
xoxox
There is another allround option if you are fresh 60 or only want to raid occasionally, but still want to farm 19/21/11:
https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/warlock/05002305022-2050300152201-50500001
You'll get the key talents for raiding AND farming. Bane for faster shadow bolts, fel concentration for farming, demonic sacrifice for farming OR raiding (sac void or succubus). Put the points in improved drain life in suspression if you dont' have enough hit for farming.
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