Warlocks and their place in the bracket.

[Viin]

From experience warlocks seem to be one of the least played, and depending on the bracket one of the weakest classes of twinks around. I don't yet have a level 10 warlock and I'm interested in making one for the upcoming changes in MoP, but does anyone have any experience or information on a Warlock they could share?

My initial perception was to build them as a tanky flag carrier who could sustain their own CC and when MoP hits could take a large burst hit using Metamorphasis to buffer their survivability (provided there aren't large changes to the way meta works.) I haven't received my beta invite yet so I can't test whether or not the spell is itself the same or completely different, and I figured asking the community wouldn't cause any harm. If being able to "tank" isn't possible, then is there a viable way to build warlock damage? They always seem to lack the toolkit that mages and priests bring to fights, and the 10 bracket doesn't seem very different.

 

[l30t53dd6p]

I don't find having 1600-1700 hp weak for a level 10 caster, and no, no gems or satchel bug gear with that. The thing they are missing is fear

But then again, what am i talking about, we don't even have games here in the EU.... yet ^^

 

[Viin]

I don't find having 1600-1700 hp weak for a level 10 caster, and no, no gems or satchel bug gear with that. The thing they are missing is fear

But then again, what am i talking about, we don't even have games here in the EU.... yet ^^

Well level 14s can pick fear. I'm more interested in the tanking capabilities of Demo than the CC. Having even minor damage with the amount of armor they'd have if Metamorphasis stays at 600% armor should make them formidable as an FC. Throwing a pet in just makes the mix more hectic. Felguards hit hard.

 

[Healstrong]

warlocks do great damage, and on a LB cd drain life heals pretty fast

 

[threesets]

yerp, haste and locks were made to be together

also heals, can you log on nao? plz,

 

[Manaki]

Reem @ Runetotem - Game Guide - World of Warcraft -- i WAS also working on a 14, but gave up due to giving up on life altogether. I'm getting tired of spending so much effort on twinks to just have nothing back in return --- i've made 3x 10 twinks, deleted/leveled apart from one, and made a 39 which also has pretty lame game so unfortunately unless the games really hit off, i think i will stick with the 19s and 70 bracket

But yes, i also had the idea of metamorph in MoP and i think in max stam gear @ level 14 it's possible to attain over 1600 (assuming the imps life buff gets nerfed down to 4 stamina) and with rumsey rum. You'll miss out on a large amount of spellpower though.. i'm guessing 1700 hp in the 10s bracket isn't half bad especially if meta does still grant 600% armour bonus - oh, and i think i read that health stone heals 30% of your hp.