Warlock with sword?!?Follow

Weapon skills are trained (bought) by Weapon Masters in all the capital cities across Azeroth. Warlock can use Daggers, Wands, 1h Swords (with training) and 2h Staves (with training).

Each trained skill will run you 10 silver, so if you're *brand* new to the game, this might actually be a bit of an investment for you, but I suggest you get all your skills so you can equip whatever items have the best stats for you at the time.

For you, Archibald in the Undercity will have the weapon skill you're looking for. Ask a guard about the "Weapon Master" and he'll point you in the right direction.

In the end, weapon types become totally irrelevent, and what you're really looking at is stats and practicality. The only skill I would say you need to have kept up is wands, and even wands become less about DPS and more about firing speed and magic type and of course the stats.

Let me expand a bit on what IponemaGirl said: Weapons are irrelevant. Weapon DPS means absolutely jack. Weapon speed means absolutely jack. Whether it's a sword/off-hand, a dagger/off-hand, or a staff means absolutely jack. I would rather wield a .000000001 DPS lollipop with +STA, +INT, and +Spell Damage than a 150DPS sword that gives +STR, +AGI and +SPI - all useless to a warlock.

I beg to differ, when a lvl 70 warlock goes against a lvl 70 shamman, and his weapon skills is at...say....150, that totem will not go down in one shot. Those swings will miss, they will do 1 point of dmg, they will do 4 points of damage, and if you're lucky to see this, that totem will dodge.

totem dodge? no way. I want to see a screen shot of that.

You train swords in undercity.

ya but you can do that with daggers or staves.
if I was to lvl in one weapon type I would go for staves, cause they (very often) give good stats and are a lot better than daggers...BUT with a 1hand sword you can use a offhand thingy that gives extra stats, etc.

Don’t laugh too hard, your… lack of insight might show. People have a very bad habit of judging everyone else by their own experiences. And I must admit to being guilty of this myself. But we should all keep in mind that there is nearly an infinite number of ways to play our characters. One of my hunters, for example, sat at level 55 for over a year. He gathered herbs and killed mobs that got in his way, but I wasn’t actively leveling him. Money spent on cool looking enchants would have been a good investment, as they would have lasted over a year. All I’m trying to get at is that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions when we see someone doing something differently than we ourselves do, seeing as how we don’t have all the facts.

As for weapons, I almost always use staves on casters. I have nothing against using a 1H weapon and an off hand weapon. I’d actually like that for a change. But I’ve never found anything better for any of my casters. This may have to do with the fact that I don’t PvP, I don’t raid and I almost never go into instances with my casters. So I’m left with quest rewards, world drops and the auction house.