Tips On The Best Warlock PvP Build
By Dominick G. Bironas | August 25, 2010
As a Warlock, you are the master of everything that is otherworldly. You plague your enemies with curses and diseases and hurl them down from across the battlefield to their graves with your energy shadow or bolts of fire. If you’re rolling a PvP character, a good Warlock PvP build would make you’re Warlock an adversary to contend with.
The Best Talent Spec For PvPing There’s no such thing as a bad build for your Warlock PvP, although there are some few selected builds that really wrap up with your Warlock’s core abilities. When choosing a build, it is always best to keep in mind the role that you are planning to fill in groups and the talents you wish to strengthen for combat. Also, balance your playing style and gears as these could definitely make or break the strengths of your chosen build.
Warlock talent trees are versatile enough to allow the creation of a number of builds suitable for PvPing. But again, your own style of playing remains a huge consideration. If you’re play style qualifies to what many players describe as ‘hit-and-run’, you’ll certainly do great if you focused with the Affliction talent tree. If you enjoy nuking your opponents from a distance, the Destruction tree will provide you sufficient number of talents to deliver massive damage to your enemies. Alternatively, you can choose to go down the path of Demonology and enhance your pets’ abilities.
General Tips While a Warlock PvP may prove to be a complex character, you will soon learn that there are a few tricks that could come in handy for each of the talents trees.
Affliction Warlock In PvP, an Affliction Warlock is the type that would cast a DoT spells and make a run for it. This strategy may sound a bit ridiculous but it really does work.
This works by hurling DoT spells within a Warlock’s maximum range while waiting for the damage to take down the enemy. You need not close in your enemy to ensure your win. With this talent tree, running from the battle is often the best strategy. Even if your enemy lives to catch you, you can always cast Fear to chase it away.
Destruction Warlock Destruction Warlocks have some pretty insane spells up their sleeves. The Improved Shadow Bolt, for example. It’s at Tier one only and you can already enhance the damage inflicted by your Shadow bolt spell by as much as 5%. You also have the Shadowburn, which is quite obviously among the top reasons why some PvP players choose to spec Demonology, Shadowfury, and of course the Soul Leech.
Demonology Warlock Finally is the Demonology talent tree which offers one of the class’s trademarks – minions or pers. With a pseudo-warrior imp beside you, who can defeat you? The idea behind any demonology Warlock PvP build is not to create an enhanced, more powerful Warlock but to create the best damage-dealing imp. There are also, of course, some useful talents for enhancing your Warlock as well.
A Warlock PvP build is best created with maximizing the core abilities of the class in mind. For more information on PvP builds, check out my website.
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