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Warlock Class Review for Battle for Azeroth

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Warlocks are really fun to play in the pre-patch! They received new spell animations and Demonology got a complete overhaul. In the latest Class review, Bellular goes through the Warlock overhaul in Battle for Azeroth.

Class Guides

Here are links to our Warlock guides that have been updated for Patch 8.0.1:

Warlock Talent Trees in Battle for Azeroth

Affliction

Level Talent 1 Talent 2 Talent 3
15 NightfallNightfall Drain SoulDrain Soul DeathboltDeathbolt
30 Writhe in AgonyWrithe in Agony Absolute CorruptionAbsolute Corruption Siphon LifeSiphon Life
45 Demon SkinDemon Skin Burning RushBurning Rush Dark PactDark Pact
60 Sow the SeedsSow the Seeds Phantom SingularityPhantom Singularity Vile TaintVile Taint
75 DarkfuryDarkfury Mortal CoilMortal Coil Demonic CircleDemonic Circle
90 Shadow EmbraceShadow Embrace HauntHaunt Grimoire of SacrificeGrimoire of Sacrifice
100 Soul ConduitSoul Conduit Creeping DeathCreeping Death Dark Soul: MiseryDark Soul: Misery

Demonology

Level Talent 1 Talent 2 Talent 3
15 Growing ShadowsDreadlash Demonic StrengthDemonic Strength Biliescourge BombersBiliescourge Bombers
30 Demonic CallingDemonic Calling Hand of Gul'danPower Siphon DoomDoom
45 Demon SkinDemon Skin Burning RushBurning Rush Dark PactDark Pact
60 From the ShadowsFrom the Shadows Soul StrikeSoul Strike Summon VilefiendSummon Vilefiend
75 DarkfuryDarkfury Mortal CoilMortal Coil Demonic CircleDemonic Circle
90 Soul ConduitSoul Conduit Inner DemonsInner Demons Grimoire: FelguardGrimoire: Felguard
100 Sacrificed SoulsSacrificed Souls Demonic ConsumptionDemonic Consumption Nether PortalNether Portal

Destruction

Level Talent 1 Talent 2 Talent 3
15 FlashoverFlashover EradicationEradication Soul FireSoul Fire
30 Reverse EntropyReverse Entropy Internal CombustionInternal Combustion ShadowburnShadowburn
45 Demon SkinDemon Skin Burning RushBurning Rush Dark PactDark Pact
60 InfernoInferno Fire and BrimstoneFire and Brimstone CataclysmCataclysm
75 DarkfuryDarkfury Mortal CoilMortal Coil Demonic CircleDemonic Circle
90 Roaring BlazeRoaring Blaze Grimoire of SupremacyGrimoire of Supremacy Grimoire of SacrificeGrimoire of Sacrifice
100 Soul ConduitSoul Conduit Channel DemonfireChannel Demonfire Dark SoulDark Soul: Instability

New Warlock Spell Animations

Warlocks received new spell animations in the 8.0 pre-patch. You can check them out in the video below.

And finally, here's Bellular's Class Review.

The following series of Class reviews is sponsored by Icy Veins.

Class Reviews

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Too bad they screw Demonology's damage, really fun gameplay, amazing actually, but overnerfed, I still don't know why they nerfed the spec again, it wasn't the top warlock spec on beta and now I don't know if we'll be able to do stuff with it since they really don't care at all.

But hey, Affliction is the top spec again, yay... /s

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7 hours ago, Syktris said:

Too bad they screw Demonology's damage, really fun gameplay, amazing actually, but overnerfed, I still don't know why they nerfed the spec again, it wasn't the top warlock spec on beta and now I don't know if we'll be able to do stuff with it since they really don't care at all.

But hey, Affliction is the top spec again, yay... /s

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This is why i actually switched to warrior by now. I just don't care about playing Affliction anymore.

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4 hours ago, naxant said:

This is why i actually switched to warrior by now. I just don't care about playing Affliction anymore.

Yeah, warrior is cool but still unusable in M+.. ?

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They should decidedly buff demonology again to be the top spec, on par with destro and nerf aff if needed to get it out of the top spot. Warlocks have been playing affliction for a LOT of years now, think everyone is pretty much tired of it at this point.

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On 7/22/2018 at 8:23 AM, naxant said:

This is why i actually switched to warrior by now. I just don't care about playing Affliction anymore.

It's a matter of time really. In 8.0 affli/destro are stronger but it is likely that in 8.1 this will change and so on. Don't sacrifice the toon that brings you joy to play over temporary raw numbers, you'll regret it sooner or later.

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I'm loving the new Demo Lock, very fast paced caster class where you have to think ahead as to how you should maximize the amount of demons you have. My only complaint is that Tier 30 talent: Doom is really really lack luster and I have no idea why they designed the talent to be this way. Sure it's a good amount of damage but that's until the whole 30 seconds has passed by. And the secondary effect in which you have a 5% chance to summon a Doomguard if it Dooms kills the target is utterly useless in both Raids and Mythic+. Really this talent is overall useless as it doesn't take long to kill targets outside instances in general.

Another talent from Tier 60 From the Shadows is also lackluster as well. The target takes 20% more Shadowflame damage from you when summoning Dreadstalkers is ok, but the only two abilities that do shadowflame damage are your Demon bolt and Hand of Guldan. So you have a 12 sec window to spam those two abilities to get the most of out of the debuff. And when compared to Soul Strike and Vile Fiend I have no idea why they put this as a talent to begin with or put it up against those two talents specifically. From the Shadows is a slight DPS increased, whereas Soul Strike gives you another Soul Shard generator that translates into more demons and Hand of Guldan's. And Vilefiend is a really strong low CD demon that does a good deal of damage and gets affected by Demonic Tyrant. From The Shadows is barely good enough to even compete with the two talents.

Whatever happened to the talent back in Legion when every time you summon Dreadstalkers there are two wild imps that ride both of them? I feel as though that would be a good talent to place in this section as two more wild imps on one short CD could translate into more Demon Bolts, they get affected by Demonic Tyrant, and affects Sacrificed Souls. 

Otherwise the class is really freaking fun and I might end up picking it as my main for BfA.

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