World of Warcraft Cataclysm Warlock Leveling Guide

The Warlock class is quite easy to level. With an arsenal of different pets that can tank, increase health, silence targets and stun people, leveling in cataclysm is easy. The warlock's main damage come from the socalled DoTs (Damage over Time) as well as their pet. They also have an ability named Life tap, which converts some of your Hit Points into mana which is great for when you're at 100% Hit points and under 100% mana. There are some AoE (Area of Effects) that the Warlock have, not as many as a mage but still useful.

Remember to always use the Create Healthstone and Create Soulstone abilities, The healthstone works just like a health potion, it will restore your health. The Soulstone will make you able to ress at the place where you died, in other words you won't have to corpse run, this is a real timesaver and you should have this on you at any time possible.

I recommend that you stay with the Affliction tree until you hit level 70.

The Affliction tree is focused on increasing your DoT damage, as well as giving you some nice extra spells and improved versions of your other DoT spells. You should get the Improved Life Tap, Improved Corruption, Soul Siphon/Siphon Life for starters, max out the amount of talents in these (3/3, 2/2, 5/5 etc).

Now put 2/2 in Doom and Gloom, get the Curse of Exhaustion and then put 3/3 in Eradication. Go ahead and get Soul Swap after this, and 3/3 Shadow Embrace and the 2/2 Improved Howl of Terror. Put 2 Talent points in Nightfall and get Soulburn: Seed of Corruption (SoC) Then put 3/3 in Death's Embrace, 3/3 in Everlasting Affliction, 2/2 Pandemic and then the last thing in the Affliction tree, Haunt. Now you should either start putting talent points in Demonology or switch spec completely because of the Metamorphosis talent in the Warlocks Demo tree.

If you decide to change your spec (talents) from Affliction to Demonology, then use these talents:

3/3 Demonic Embrace, 2/2 Spell Synergy, Then go ahead and put 2/2 in Mana Feed and 2/2 Demonic Aegis and 2/2 Demonic Rebirth. Then go ahead and get Demonic Empowerment, 3/3 Impending Doom, 3/3 Molten Core, Hand of Gul'dan and 2/2 Aura of Foreboding.

Then choose Inferno, 2/2 Decimation, 2/2 Ancient Grimoire, 2/2 Cremation and Demonic Pact. Now you'll have 1 point left for the Metamorphosis, put the last point in Master Summoner, then get Metamorphosis and put the other point in Master Summoner, after this you should just spend the remaining points in the Affliction tree in the same order as I showed you a few lines above this.

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