Dramatis Personae: Warlock

This is Poisonberry.

She’s my Warlock, and my ex-main.

I levelled her over Christmas 2006 and raided Kara and early SSC/TK with her. Then I went back to my first love my Paladin. But this is about Poisonberry. At the moment she’s specc’d Affliction, not because I have a great love for the spec but because it’s what my gear can allow right now. I had a go at Demonology raiding for a few weeks at the start of the year and it’s a load of fun but really needs 2 pieces of Tier 5 and a Void Star Talisman to work best. So when I saw the horrors of the incoming Lifetap nerf I reckoned it was time to switch back to the dull but reliable mana camel build.

So what do I like about Warlocks? Well initially I liked just about everything. Warlock was my first real DPS class. Well my very character was a Rogue which I got to 42, but I was dreadful and to be honest I don’t think you could consider it “DPS”. After that I had a Priest and then a Paladin, so a Warlock was a real change of pace, you can pump damage out very nicely. Levelling the Warlock was good fun, and the nice thing about Affliction was that with both Lifetap and Dark Pact you never really run out of mana and can keep going forever, and the flexibility of the pets makes you able to survive almost any situation. I remember soloing Araj in Andorhal at level 60 with DoTs and using the Voidwalker sacrifice to get the hell out of there in one piece.

When raiding a Warlock is a nice class to play for DPS. DPSing in raids is more relaxing than Healing, at least in my experience. Healing can get pretty stressful, especially if you have to play whack-a-mole, on the other hand DPS is nice and comparatively simple, focus on the mob, pop the DoTs up, Bolt bolt bolt, refresh DoTs and Lifetap/Dark Pact when you need to.

So, I like my Warlock. But that’s my problem. I like all my characters…

Next time, some kind of a healer. A Shaman or a Paladin, I don’t know!