Can a Warlock equip any sword?Follow

There are extremely few class-specific items, and most of those have to do with class-specific quests. In practical terms, the answer to your question is yes. If you can find a sword, you can use it.

However, most of the time you'll be using staves, because those have caster stats. Your real damage is from spells, not weaponry.

you will have to go to the weapon master in order to learn new weapon skills. If you really want ot use swords, u should consider getting an off hand orb, or something that gives you bonuses.To be honest with you, i'm lvl 39 ATM, and i never go close combat. I DoT the enemy as much as possible(if the enemy is strong, and worth using mana on), and use shadow bolt.. some times i use wands for combat too, but they aren't always that powerfull.. I use staves mostly.. but i'm not very experiensed with locks.. then i wouldn't have been here. x)

As other have said yes, and as others have said, sword is primarily for stats. Weapons in general are one of the best stat slots for warlocks. There are plenty of swords/daggers that raise Spell Damage by a significant portion, and usually have some Hit, Crit or Haste as well. What I normally do I carry the best Staff, Main Hand and Off Hand items I've found with me. This way, if I get a new Main Hand/Off Hand, I can add it's totals to the other that I have and see if it is better than my staff.

That being said, while we can equip the same swords as Warriors/Rogues, the stats on the swords they want are normally have Defense, Parry, attack power or expertise, stats we don't want at all. If you ever take a sword for it's DPS you are wrong, use your wand for DPS if you can't cast for whatever reason, but locks should not melee.

Edited, Nov 25th 2008 11:39am by Lathais