Yet Another Warlock Nerf

As you have hopefully noticed, I haven’t been posting very much recently. That’s because I finally bit the bullet and decided to take a break from WoW. Playing arena throughout TBC was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in a video game. And despite not agreeing with many of the changes that Blizzard has [...]

I was originally going to write a long, angry rant about the state of warlocks (pet resilience change did nothing, etc). I’ve changed my mind, however. One of the biggest changes in the upcoming season is the change to the 2v2 bracket (no longer awards titles, weapons, or shoulders). Let’s talk about that. So with the 2v2 [...]

The WoW developers are posting a thread on several of the class forums asking for concerns from the community. They even posted one of these threads on the warlock forum (probably because of our insanely OP performance in PVP)! I suggest you all head over there right now and voice your opinion. Just in case you [...]

Warlock pet survivability is currently laughably low. Due to this significant weakness it is more important than ever that you properly manage your pet in arena matches. When playing Warlock/Healer, especially, knowing when to pull your pet back and when to send it in is a necessary skill for success. There are several comps that are [...]

So 3.1 is here and there are a whole slew of incredibly important changes to the warlock class. Let’s review the big three: 1) You can no longer reliably keep fear up on a target that is DOTed. 2) You are no longer allowed to use immolate on targets with UA. 3) Affliction has lower single target and multi-target damage. I’m going [...]

Most warlocks spend so much time getting free wins in arenas through the RNG aspect of fear that they never have any time to sit down and think about glyph selection. Thankfully, my fellow fear spamming face-rollers, help has arrived. It’s time to analyze optimal glyph selection for PVP. Let’s start by taking a quick [...]

I’ve decided to change up the format a little. Instead of making this a three part series, this will be the final installment. Additionally, rather than listening off a bunch of strategies for specific comps (which you can get elsewhere) I’m going to talk about how to develop strategies. I think this type of analysis [...]

In the next few articles I’m going to cover the basics of how to play a warlock in the new arena environment of Wrath of the Lich King, as well as go over a few specific comps and matchups and various tricks to use. If you want to see what teams I run and my [...]

With the plethora of interface mods available for World of Warcraft, it can be a daunting task for someone new to the game to setup their UI. This article is primarily targeted at helping warlocks who are interested in getting into arena, yet feel overwhelmed when they hear about all of different things they have [...]