25 Awesome Warlock Tricks
Warlocks have a lot of tricks, and while they might not always require much skill to play (talking about SL/SL mostly), there’s always things which separate skilled players over casual ones.
Perhaps you know all of this already, perhaps you don’t. But it’s always good to have an open mind and a few uncommon tactics so you can adapt to almost any situation.
I’m like Athene of the warlocks, giving away free tips. Read on to find out what hides in the warlock’s trick bag!
1. I’ll get this out of the way: use macros. There’s plenty of them to be found, and a good place to start is my Useful warlock macros post.
2. I’ll get this out of the way also since it’s related to one of my previous posts. Get the Felguard Legionnaire. Enslave Demon is not completely useless - you can check this topic to see a list of cool demons which can be enslaved.
3. In PvP, always buff yourself with Detect Invisibility and Unending Breath. It’s 2 more magic effects, meaning it might take 1 more priest’s dispel or shaman purge to get your Fel Armor off of you. And those pesky Arcane Shot spamming huntards need to spam even more!
4. In PvE, you can break Fear on mobs by casting Curse of Recklesness (CoR) on them - use rank 1 CoR, it won’t do much threat nor waste much mana, and the attack power bonus is negligible. When the mob is coming back at you, just throw another curse and he will run in fear again without the need to recast it.
5. If you send your pet to attack a rogue (or druid), even if he stealths the pet will attack him and break his stealth.
6. If you’re using Succubus to CC in instances, pull with Searing Pain (or Soul Fire) for max threat. This is especially important for heroic instances: if your succy gets attacked it will probably get one shotted; if the mob goes after you it will give your pet enough time to reseduce the mob.
7. You can keep players in combat in arenas by sending your pet after them - they won’t be able to drink. Also, if you didn’t know, Star’s Tears is the only drink you can use in arenas. Buy a stack, you never know.
8. You can banish druids in Tree of Life.
9. Always have your Felhunter’s Paranoia buff on. There’s no reason not to, and a lot of invisible reasons why you should.
10. You can summon yourself with Ritual of Summoning. Helps also if you get stuck behind objects in instances (happened to me in Shadow Labs on first boss when he feared).
11. You can Devour paladin’s Hammer of Justice. Obvious, but often overlooked.
12. Spend 1 talent point in Shadow Embrace (affliction) if you can - it’s one more magic debuff on your target - one more cleanse/dispel.
13. Use your felhunter to dispel Unstable Affliction on you - he won’t take damage.
14. Banishing a warlock’s pet will get rid of his Soul Link.
15. Get Boar’s Speed.
16. You can cast curses on mages - some of them are retarded (sorry but it’s true).
17. Spam Rank 1 Corruption to get that paladin OOM faster! Also spam it when the rogue pops Cloak of Shadows - it might stick on him and break his vanish.
16. Cast Siphon Life on hunter’s pet - free healing ftw. Also, you can either cast Curse of Weakness to reduce it’s melee damage, or Corruption (rank 1 is fine) for Nightfall procs if you specced.
17. If you have Dark Pact: when buffing up in raids, get your imp out of phase shift - tell your priests and paladins to buff him with spirit/mp5.
18. You can carry 3 healthstones of the same rank, if they are from 3 different warlocks, depending on how many talent points they put into Improved Healthstone. Also, you can make different ranks of healthstones for yourself in arenas, which is useful if the fight lasts a bit. Note: all healthstones share the same cooldown.
19. In arenas, summon Voidwalker first. About 12 seconds before the match starts, start summoning Felhunter/Felguard - spam Sacrifice and you should get the shield after about 5 seconds. If you have talent points in Master Summoner, it’s a bit tricky - you can still get the shield, but it’s really hard if you have latency above 300. Start casting about 8 seconds before the match then. This way, you should have the shield for the first 25 seconds of the match.
20. If you’re low on health, use lower ranks of Life Tap.
21. If you’re facing a wipe in instance, Life Tap to low hp and use Hellfire. You will kill yourself, but won’t loose any durability.
22. You can cast Curse of Tongue’s on mage’s Water Elemental. If you’re banishing the Elemental, try to Spell Lock the mage first (maybe also Fear if you’re sure he won’t break it instantly) so you don’t get Counterspelled. You can also CoT + Siphon Life + Corruption to kill the pet.
23. If you see a warrior pop Spell Reflect, cast Curse of Recklessness. Congratulations, you’re now immune to fear - not warrior’s Intimidating Shout though. You can also cast Siphon Life - it will basically heal you a bit due to Fel Armor bonus.
24. Hellfire triggers Prayer of Mending - if you’re on full health, life tap and use Rank 1 Hellfire.
25. Recast Fel Armor on yourself before using bandages or Cannibalize.
Help me with more tips - that’s what comments are for.
Did you know all this, or did I just make a totally useless post? Got any tricks for your own class, or did you find a way to beat warlocks?
What’s your tip?
Ty for the tip about buffing the imp while he’s out of phase shift, I didn’t know that one
A warlock has several ways to crowd control.
Seduce, Banish, Enslave, Fear,Off tank.
And with 4 of these you can level really fast around demonds.
Banish one, Enslave another and sick it on another demon, Dot and Fear one more, Drain Tank another one.
You can also get mages to buff your imp with Arcane Brilliance. Forgot to add that
Makazradon (spelling?) In SMV can be enslaved, and makes a great pet.
Just make sure you don’t pull him too far from his spawn point on the mountain.
If you have a flying mount then follow this trick
Enslave Makazradon and drag him over several demons. Once he has agro land and lay one dot each of the demons around him. Then have him do his rain of fire.
Watch the xp build and start looting up.
This is a great way to collect Marks of Sargeras.
Great tip, thanks.
Too bad I didn’t see it sooner - I’m already exalted with Aldors
Oooh neat trick on Makazradon! My 70 lock isn’t yet revered with Aldor
Also, great tricks list. I’ve been thinking about PVPing on my Affliction Lock, but I’m not 100% sure I can afford to divide my time between my PVP Frost Mage and my PVE Pally Tank
I need more time in the day!
If your imp is not phased shifted, whent he raid/group buffs you, the imp will get buffed also as long as its group buffs and not single target. Even works when pallys buff you, the pet will get buffed also. Just remember to turn phase shift back on or your pet will die really quickly. It really helps if you are a demon spec’d or dark pact spec’d
Use Curse of Shadows on the target you want to seduce with your Succubus. Her seduce is based on shadow resist.
Put Unstable Affliction on hunter pets. Improve Pet mend will hit the hunter with the dispell penalty on UA.
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VERY cool tips! My (current) warlock is still 21 or so, but those are really cool tips for later use!
Great post, most impressed, and one more post idea I can cross off my list…
Only comment I’d make is that the pulling with Searing Pain to protect the succy can lead to tears with a resist when she recasts it, so its often a good idea to follow it up with a CoS to lower the chances of that happening (as katjia said, seduce is shadow based). Probably obvious, but also make sure you get as close to max range from the seduced mob as possible to give your succy every chance to do her business when it wears off; in heroics we can be one- or two-shotted with the right (wrong) mobs as well. Personally this is something I’d only really do if my cc mob wasn’t high on the “next to kill” list, otherwise I’d just straight out CoS/seduce, even with mobs going straight for her she’s *almost* guaranteed at least one recast before they get to her if you have seduce macro’ed.
Put Unstable Affliction on hunter pets. Improve Pet mend will hit the hunter with the dispell penalty on UA.
Thanks didn’t know about this! I’ll have to respecc UA someday to try this
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Use Curse of Shadows on the target you want to seduce with your Succubus. Her seduce is based on shadow resist.
True; same goes for Fear. Also very useful when banishing SL/SL warlock’s felhunter.
Buff yourself with a Soul Stone before leaving the game for 30 minutes or longer, especially if you will be raiding or PvP’ing upon your return. The buff will remain at it’s full duration upon logging in, and you can conjure up another for a tank or healer.
Minor tip, but sometimes it has come in handy!
If you do daily quests then take off anything that does not have a durability, i.e. wear Trinkets, Cloak, Rings, Off Hand.
Doing this will save you on a repair bill.
This can easily be done for warlocks because we are known for having a high stamina. This is really easy if you do the Ogrila Daily Quests involving Demons.
Here is a neat trick if you have Demonic Sacrifice.
You can sacrifice one of your demons then enslave another and still keep your sacrifice bonus.
If you’re in a dungeon with a Frost Trap-laying hunter, stick a CoElemants on his target, just before it gets in range of the trap - that way, you help to keep the mob trapped, and you don’t get too much aggro and drag the mob off to hit on you.
Cast Rank 1 Hellfire if you know a CC that breaks on damage is incoming. Often it’ll tick as the CC hits you, breaking it instantly.
Wow and I thought I knew all the tricks to play a lock..but these are def nice…especially:
“20. If you’re low on health, use lower ranks of Life Tap.”
since I love to PvP I thought this would def help out just when I need a tad of mana instead of life tapping to kill myself faster….nice!!!
Lol..I’ve actually banished a druid transformed into tree of life in Warsong…it was hilarious but he was so dumb he got that form again and I banished him again.,..lmaoooo
>>> “16. Cast Siphon Life on hunter’s pet - free healing ftw. Also, you can either cast Curse of Weakness to reduce it’s melee damage, or Corruption (rank 1 is fine) for Nightfall procs if you specced.”
I alwaaaaaysss do this…I put siphon life on everything and anything…it’s so easy for a geared lock to do awesome
overall dps in BGs because you just run around DOtTing up everything and sometimes I came out on top in healing..lol!!
I suggest an enslave first, so the agro is drawn the the enslaved mob, and banish and pick up on the other mob
Just learned this one…
In an instance, you can cast Ritual of Summoning on yourself, then hearth and repair, buy food/drinks/mats/whatever, and then accept the summon.
awesome tips, btw i got another one.
when buffing up in arena start summon imp and give everyone fireshield. just an extra buff to dispell, fire resistance and a little dps.
btw banishing a tree of life is pretty awesome never knew it before.