I know this is 3 years later but I found this vid to be so good when rolling my lock back at Classic launch and still helps me with my alts in Era. Thanks to you and the crew of locks that developed this comprehensive guide!
For real tho. Dudes too hard on himself. I played lock back in the day but there's a breadth of helpful tips and info here that I was never aware of until seeing this video.
Small addendum to "Resource Control" section: Due to the life tap mechanic class is built on, most warlocks will carrry 2 sets of food with them; one for the Well Fed buff for that extra stamina and other most likely fish for ooc regen, plus Bandages, no water. I've found through extensive testing that Bandages plus Well Fed food is the way to go. Just carry your stack of porkchops with a few stacks of bandages and you're set. Lvl appropriate food takes 30 secs to regen 80-90% of your total health. Bandages on the other hand take 8 secs to overkill your healthbar(depends on bandage). This severely cuts your downtime and is bagspace efficient, which is something to consider as a warlock. One more thing, bandages can be used in combat as long as you dont take hits. So fear/seducce and regen to full health in the middle of a fight! You can even do this in pvp! You can use bandages as an emergency heal also; if you pop a bandage right after a mob's AA you can get 1-3 ticks off of healing, depending on mobs attack speed. Hope this helps.
I am leveling and stacking the hell out of hp regeneration with food and potions.. and bandages. It's pretty nice with with life tap talent.. i barely stop to drink
He didnt mention that because it sounds better in theory than it is in reality. I LIterally never carried Stam food.. what is +20 stam gonna do for you when you lifetap for more hp than that.. you may occasionally be able to get off one more lifetap than you normally would... but why lifetap to near 0 hp except in emergency.. thats just asking for death. Stam food is not worth the cost imo. If you're able to cook food with stat buffs, sell it... the gold will help you way more. Literally ANY level appropriate food plus bandages is fine.
The amount of info in this video if you're a warlock is astounding, thanks for taking the time to make this Kargoz, helped me a lot as someone rolling a lock for the first time.
Really an ultimate leveling guide for locks. Appreciate the time and effort that went into this ^^ Thanks for the shoutout, everything you do for the community, and being a chill dude about it all.
Vanilla Warlock here. so hyped to go back and re level my toon, warlocks were a underrated class back in O.G hope to see more nonsense and chaos around gg leveling!
Wow man! This video was impressive as hell. It made a big impact for me and my leveling outlook and I really appreciate it. The time and effort you put into this guide was out of this world. I know some people really enjoy the service, as you said, and get an artistic kick out of the research and collation of this kind of data. Regardless of where it stems, this was an impressive accomplishment and a boon for everyone out there. Amazing work and your dedication is both recognized and appreciated. I've never seen any of your work before but a friend advised me to take a look and I'm glad I did. Big shout out to the folks who helped make this happen for you. Take it easy man, cheers!
This is an absolutely incredible guide, I can't believe it took me this long to find it! Amazing production quality and information. Only 20 minutes in, but I'm looking forward to watching the rest, and grinding the next 30 levels with some top tier nahledge.
Kargoz, I just want to say that I love your videos. I often listen to them when drivning home from work, and I get so nostalgic and excited. I am still playing era on EU Firemaw cluster, which is alive and kicking. We are two guilds on alliance side who clear every raid from MC and ZG to AQ40 and Naxx every week (similar stuff is going on for the horde). A lot of people are coming in from SOM and TBC, and there are many alts, so we are able to pop 3x full world buffs every week, and have been doing so for a very long time now. We also do ranked pvp and multiple people are getting their Rank 14 by using poolboosting. I got Rank 12 on my Hunter for the gloves and is nearly BIS. This is the best game ever! -Nuxthalia from Denmark
I work in corporate and I want to say this is even better than any sponsorship proposal that I have evern seen. You will definitely be very very successful.
After grinding a priest to 50s and getting utterly burnt out on how arduous solo leveling is (and the lack of demand for healers on my server) I rolled a lock and got to level 20 in one day. Can't wait to max out I'm having loads of fun. Thanks for the guide!
You can use curse of recklessness if the enemy healpriest is mindcontrolling your meele to make them immune to the fear once they get back on target and buff their potential to burst that heal down
Nicely done :D I never played a warlock in vanilla. Started out as a Paladin...didnt make it far lol I think I made it to level 15 or so and then switched to mage. Didnt make it past 45 before TBC. Made it to 65 when Wrath came out. Wrath was the first time I maxed out a character...did it as a druid lol eventually got my mage to 80. Still, I always like watching guides. Never know when the info might come in handy :D
Leveling a warlock for BC now. Been watching a few of your videos but this one was just so damn good I couldn't not press subscribe. Thanks for all the time and effort.
Can you make a video on useful warlock macros using the coding for this client - useful pvp ones, engineering gadgets, advanced pet commands (focus target), etc
Very impressive guide! The amount of detail and knowledge is insane. You are my go to for WoW guides. Your love for Locks and this game shines brightly throughout this vid, you're a 5 Star @Kargoz! Thank you!
So great...this guide was awesome no need to down yourself ..its a 2hr video ..you made a movie bro ..awesome..awesome guide ...i played lock in vanilla and im currently at lvl18 now ..been following you from retail for the hunter vids ..keep up the great work
for people who want a bit of easier time early about 9 and up best setup for wand use macros /petattack /Castsequence reset=15 Immolate(Rank 2), Corruption(Rank 1), Curse of Agony(Rank 1), !Shoot change shoot to attack if u have melee
@@akasha1211 make it so that u can cast all the spells with 1 button instead for pressing 1 234 u make the macro ur Number 1 n your bar and press that instead just casting immolation
48:07 When you're talking about health funnel, you say it interrupts the 5 second rule. It doesn't. Just like life tap, since it costs health to cast and not mana your mana regen continues.
Dang it I miss classic vanilla. Nostalgia hits when I go back to these videos. Def and Mel, Dunedain, kargoz for the gma pods. Running up to release. Beta streams. This game hits home for me.
Awesome content man. I can see you put a lot of work into your video’s! I mained a Hunter since 2006, but I’m also going Warlock this time around. What an enjoyable class to play man.
Sick guide dude! Picked up a few great tips from this. One thing I will say though Chillnail Splinter is technically soloable at 40. I did it on beta. You need 5/5 suppression and 4/4 imp CoE and you will die if you get 2 back to back resists on CoE. Kite him around the big wagon with CoE and if you jump over boxes and carts in the right way it messes up his pathing and gives you breathing room to handle a resist. Only corruption and siphon life for dps never stop running. Takes a long time though, probably not worth... but it was fun to do.
great info man!! old school lock where, coming back..and these are invaluable..thx to you and all the pro locks out there helping out us plebs trying to climb the lock ranks!! lok'tar ogar!!
EXCELLENT GUIDE, ONLY PROBLEM IS YO MIGHT CONSIDER IN THE FUTRE DROPPING OR MAKING SMALLER THE VIDEO OF YU TALKING IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER BECAUSE YOU COVER UP A LOT OT DATA, BUT VERY NICELY DONE THANKS
after hitting 60 i realized i bought almost 0 of the grimoires. Just use succy from 30 to 60 with drain live and cruise all the way with next to no downtime.
About the curse of Recklessness... in classic tbc I found that Recklessness makes mobs immune to fear, but it doesn't remove the fear debuff, so if you switch from Recklessness to Elements or another curse, the mob will run in fear again if the fear debuff is still on it.
Locks use Eye of Kilrog to pull bosses from really far away during Dungeon solo runs. It lets them avoid sneaking through mobs, as long as pulling the boss doesn't pull the mobs along the way.
In vanilla I used the eye the most in AB. I could defend the mill or something and scout down when our side left another flag open. It would let me have a better chance to get back there while my team attacks something else. Or I could hide behind something and see the flag at the base where I was.
At work and just finished listening to my 2nd playthrough of this. So much shit to take in. But, I saved to my playlist and will definitely refer back to this. Very information heavy guide. Great work 👍
Nice guide! Planning to drain tank as well. Just wondering if Felhunter might be better overall. It does almost as much damage as Succubus and is much more durable. I believe Felhunter has better mana regen too for more DP usage. Thanks for this. Very useful.
Ready to start! Kinda unsure how to feel since I'll be playing alliance for the first time. Joining a few friends who used to be horde but their guild moved to alliance. Now I kinda feel like a traitor, once horde, always horde. I'll just have to join a second server for solo play I guess. Thanks for the videos man!
After your other pre-official release guides, I came here to watch this newest video and after ten minutes of you trying to persuade me to play warlock and then realizing this presentation is two hours long... I think I'm going to go watch an earlier version or just refer to the presentation, which I don't want to do. I like hearing what you have to say and the information you're imparting on top of what's in the presentation but I was hoping to start playing right now and I'm not too keen on sitting through two hours for a pve, alt, unfortunately. I do love your guides but I personally preferred the much more straight forward style of your previous guides. Keep it going man, I'm sure you'll find the perfect balance somewhere. I trust your guides because you're the only one who gathers information from the community rather then just your own opinion and I think that's awesome.
kind of disappointed that i didnt watch your videos before i started my first priest when you said dwarf is the only real option haha. i chose night elf and didnt think twice and i wish i didnt do that. but im glad i found you for the warlock. Thanks!
12:00 The thing is that when you are for example in a dungeon when you are tapping your life away the healer needs to focus you instead of the tank wich is a problemd^^
You helped me solve my class crisis with this, have been planning to go hunter for months now but now I know how much utility locks have I’ve made my choice😀😀
Shout out to classic warlocks discord moderators Dave and Inarva. The two idiots banned me from the discord for saying that drain tanking is not a zero downtime build before 40 and Dark Pact.
This is an amazing guide, tons of info to digest, two hours... damn My only problem is that I cant see 1/8th of the screen due to your face. Why have slides if they are blocked?
@@johnsmith-rl1th he did, but if i want to look at them I need to change tabs from this youtube video so I can't see his face anymore. So wtf was the point of putting his face in the video???? At least he's not reading donations and talking about stream viewers for this whole video...
