Horde Leveling Guide: Fast Leveling As a Warlock

January 31, 2009

The Warlock class to my mind is the quintessential Horde class. Its evil, you deal with demons, and you debuff your enemies using powerful strength sapping spells and curses.

The Warlock is also one of the Horde’s best solo classes for leveling fast, and because of this, I intend to give you a few brief pointers to help you level fast. If you play an Alliance Warlock, perhaps its time to consider crossing to the dark side..!

Brief pointer 1: The warlock uses pets which are completely dispensable. Most players seem to treat their pet like a real person – they hang around until its almost dead, and then, when its all too late, they flee the combat.

Remember: Warlock pets are dispensable! If you get into trouble, leave your pet behind to his fate, and live to fight another day. If we were to measure the number of hours spent by dead Warlocks running back to their corpse in WoW, I suspect we’d find days worth of leveling wasted over a week because of this fact alone.

Brief pointer 2: The warlock has crowd control spells… but they can come back to haunt you.

Remember: Fear and related spells can be great for a short time fix… but don’t lose sight of that monster. If he flees past friends he’ll bring them along for the ride, and that short term fix you needed earlier will rapidly become a long term death. Get ready to do a corpse run if you use fear without thinking of the consequences.

Brief pointer 3: Warlock pets should be matched to the surrounding circumstances. Are you fighting a raid? Are you solo speed leveling? Are you in a PvP situation?

Remember: You must select the Warlock pet which performs the best in each situation. Do not go into PvP with an Imp. Do not use the succubus to power level solo. Common sense? Yes. Commonly followed sense? No! Do your research & find the best pet for the right occasion!

Brief pointer 4: When you DO need to run from combat as a Warlock, use your pets stance to your advantage.

Firstly – this works best with a voidwalker, thanks to their taunting ability. But it can work with any demon if you haven’t accumulated aggro on the mob you’re running from.

When running, be sure to select your PASSIVE stance for your pet to ensure it runs off with you. In most circumstances you’ll need him next to you, ready to be changed onto DEFENSIVE stance when the mobs you’re fleeing from catch up to you.

This is especially true for failed pulls when you accidentally grab 2, 3 or 4 mobs that you can’t handle.

Remember: Set passive, let your demon run along side you, and then set defensive, and watch as he group taunts, or starts attacking the mobs who are the greatest threat to you!

Brief pointer 5: Use soul shards like they’re going out of fashion. Use them for health stones, upgrading weapons or upgrading spells. Make sure you’re constantly protected by a resurrection stone, and make sure you have back up stones!

Remember: You have a practically unlimited supply of stones from kills, so put them to use at all times.

Follow these pointers and you’re sure to save plenty of time, and increase your leveling speed as a Warlock… so hop to it!

Jon Weston is a World of Warcraft leveling guide expert who professionally reviews the web’s best guides, and shares them. If you’d like to find out Jon’s top picks for World of Warcraft Horde Leveling Guides, you can find his free in-depth review site, here.

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.