As I had mentioned, I got to play some of my lower level alts, among which was my warlock. A little bitty gnome, currently at lvl 23, that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to level up a bit since he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my engineer and I go through a lot of ammo on my hunter. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit similar to my hunter in that I have a pet to mess around with, except I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m positive his pets hate him since they have a habit of grabbing a bunch of mobs and getting my warlock killed. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what you get when you bind demons I guess.<\/p>\n
Now my warlock had access to two pet demons, an imp and a voidwalker, know affectionately as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153blueberry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In general I keep the blueberry up because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really good at holding the attention of a mob while I do all sorts of Damage Over Times spells and channels on the mob. I probably could also focus on the direct damage spells but if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not doing any DOTs, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going up to it and sticking my sword into it.<\/p>\n
Hmm, that definitely sounds Freudian doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? Anyway, the addition of a pet does change the dynamic a bit, since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a soft squishy, having something else for the mobs to focus on is terrific. DOTs are also nice in that since the damage is spread over a period, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have sudden spikes that cause you to pull aggro. They also have spells that allow you to transfer life to your pet, take life to make into mana, or drain life from a mob, which makes for an unusual rotation of spells at times.<\/p>\n
As usual, since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not as familiar with the differences between the talent builds, I just tossed points willy-nilly into Afflicition since that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where talents affecting the spells I was using the most could be located. Someday, I swear I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll sit down and work out builds for all my characters. Except that would take time, concentration, and dedication, all things I rarely have much of.<\/p>\n
Now some changes since the last time I played my warlock caught me by surprise. You no longer have to go to the demon trainer to get skills levels up for your demon, which is a change I like since sometimes it was a pain going through and figure out what skills to buy for your pet. The other was that drain soul now gives you a chance each time you deal damage to an appropriately leveled mob. Sure surprised me when I got 4 soul shards out of a tiny little dragonwhelp. Guess they got a lot of soul…<\/p>\n
Which leads to my main pet peeve about warlocks. Blizzards did an awesome thing in changing the way ammo stacks for hunters, making them stack higher and moving the haste bonus off of the quiver or ammo pouch. Which returned the bag slot to hunters. Previously, they were pretty much penalized in their carry capability because of their class. And heaven forbid if they lost their mind if they started carrying a profession specific bag in addition to their ammo carrier. Now the question to me is, why do warlock\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s soul shards stack?<\/p>\n
Okay, warlock can still do quite a bit without the shards. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as tied into their class as the hunter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ammo. But now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m able to gather even more soul shards at a time but I have no place to put them. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d probably be happy if they stacked up to only 5 instead of 20. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to be able to put aside my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153class specific\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bag and put another honking loot carrying bag in it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slot.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I really haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t played my warlock enough to get much more of a feel for him. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely fun to be back at the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153send in pet, whittle away at the mob from back here\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also trying to get used to being in an alt as short as a gnome. As you can probably tell, I normally play Night Elves, which are much taller and thus give a slightly different perspective in the game.<\/p>\n
Oh but I did go and do the chain to eventually get the succubus pet. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tried her yet, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested to see how she does. Mainly questing in Redridge at the moment, although I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m tempted to do the Kalimdor quests instead. Oh well, which I could talk more but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the extent of my knowledge and experience with my warlock. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see what other class I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll talk about tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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