Warlock

Curses, demons and fire. Damage over time and a demon of your own to help.

Damage

Armor: Cloth
Weapons: Daggers, swords, staves, wands
Resource: Mana; Life Tap turns health into mana
Leveling: Average leveling pace

Pick a race Specializations

Specializations

Damage from curses and corruption

Keeps many shadow effects on the target and fills with Drains.

TipDamage over time can now crit.

Wrack
New: channeled spell, tree capstone
Pandemic
Stronger effects
Soul Siphon
Stronger Drains
Curse of Exhaustion
Slow

What is new in Forever

Warcraft Tavern, LFCarry

Compared with Classic. Blizzard may still change the numbers before release.

No debuff limit on a target (16 in Classic).
Damage over time can crit and is calculated on every tick.
Shadow Mastery gives 2–10% shadow damage (was 1–5%).
Damage curses became Banes; Curse of Shadow was removed.
Firestone and Spellstone became weapon oils.
Drain Soul also gives shards from damage ticks.
Trolls can be warlocks, a new combination.

Races

Tap a race and the picker opens that combination: racial abilities and everything about the class.

Alliance

Horde

TipOrc for damage, Undead for survival. Troll warlock is a new combination.

In a group and while leveling

Group value

Healthstone and Soulstone
Ritual of Summoning: gathers the group
Curse of Tongues slows casting by 60%
Curse of the Elements: more magic damage on the target

Leveling

Average leveling pace

TipTailoring and Enchanting. The Tailoring faction banner gives Spirit for Life Tap.

Pros and cons

Strengths

Self-sufficient: a demon and Life Tap
Lots of group utility
Strong damage over time

Weaknesses

Fragile and immobile
Damage takes time to ramp up
No blink or sprint

Other classes

Mage