New Warlock, weapon questionFollow

Hello ,Welcome to lockdum : )



1. It really is not important to keep the weapon skill up on your staff and swords.You are looking for the stats on the items.Stamina,intellect,spell damage
etc..Basically what benefits your lock. As for the wands I would recommend skilling up.Eventually you will get to where you won't really need to use it, but that is always an emergency at early levels of running out of mana.

2.You obtain soul shard bags to keep as many as you can on you.it is said to at least have a minimum of 10 shards on you at all times. If you need to create a healthstone for yourself, create a soulstone to put on you or targeted party member,to summon up your demon in case he dies or if you die and also summoning targeted party members to your area. Depending on which route your going on the warlock tree lines some spells require a soul shard to use.So having these in abundance is a good thing : ) .

3.Now alot factors in this one. 1. your current level you won't see big results from it.2. Which skill tree did you choose? The affliction line actually boosts this spell up. At early levels I would suggest the drain hunting method. I assume you have gotten big blueberry "voidwalker".

1.Send in blueberry "let him build up aggro"
2.begin your cast sequence of corruption,curse of agony,immolate if you want and then use siphon life to continue draining while your demon tanks for you.
3.If you should draw aggro from voidwalker I would then one-use my wand until he dies,fear then drain life until dead. But if the mob is still hitting you I woudln't recommend using the drain life because he'll just break your channeling. Now in later levels as well yes it does get even better for you : ).

Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 11:17am by Jiggeyferg

I really don´t like the idea of drain hunting. i find draintanking alot better, and faster.

I would spec like that at level 35

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IVMrVMfk

Always have you imp out.

Dot 2-3 mobs up and than drain-tank them yourself, replenish your mana by using Drain soul every now and than. Finish your cast once nightfall proccs and than hit
your SB button, with 2-3 mobs DoT´ed with Corruption Nightfall should proccc fairly often.

Of course you want to spend your next 5 points into Shadow Mastery,
than Dark Pact than into Contagion

Welcome to the "dark side." A lot of us started out in FFXI. You may not want to leave, either...


Keeping melee weapons at cap isn't really necessary, as a warlocks aren't at their best in melee. We aren't red mages here.

Keeping wand capped is an excellent idea. The wand lets you keep your distance while still doing a bit of damage.


If you're not using them fast, don't worry about it, especially at your level. Keep enough on hand to make health stones and resummon your minion as needed. It's no fun trying to kill something with the imp just so you can get your voidwalker back...

The number of stones kept on hand tends to go up as you level, and if you end up grouping for a dungeon (a.k.a. "instance") you'll want as many as you can get your hands on, since handing out health stones and soul-stoning the healer makes people like you.

Later on, you get access to soul bags. These bags can only store soul shards, but they tend to have more slots than normal bags. The first one you get is a 12 slot one as a reward when you get your succubus (around level 20), and you get a 16 slot one along with your felhunter (level 30). There's a 24 and a couple 28 slot ones that can be made by tailor later on, but they're not exactly cheap...


The best way to improve Drain Life is with the Soul Siphon talent, in the Affliction tree. With that talent, each affliction effect on the target causes Drain Life to drain a bit more.

Are you trying to drain-tank? That's where you basically act as a tank and your minion just is additional damage (usually done with the succubus or felhunter later on). The goal there is to drain life equal or better than what's being dealt to you. This isn't really possible until later on, when you can get enough talent points for 5/5 Fel Concentration, Siphon Life, and 2/2 Soul Siphon .

Again, welcome to the dark side. :D

Thank for all the advice.

I've gone back to using my blue snot of death pet, and letting him tank instead of trying drain tanking right now. So that lets me keep my wand up since after I DoT the mob I ust shoot with my wand. Its not very mana intensive at all.

I took a look into the soulbags, so I should get one in the next day or so when I get succy.

Again, thanks for all the info.