WARLOCK in Cataclysm Classic: Was It Any Good Though? 

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I loved the Staysafe corrupted ashbringer reference 😂

Hi! Great video. I have around 20K~ hours in Cata alone. (OG retail and multiple private servers over the years.) With a big part of that being maining warlock in PVE. I could provide some additional information for those few who are interested but have never played Cataclysm warlock. I am, by no means an absolute, total expert, but I have did a fair bit of research and put a lot of time into playing this class. 1. If you decide to play Warlock in pve, prepare to practice your snapshotting. It is used on every single spec, and can make or break your dps. It is very important to get good snapshots. 2. All three specs are PVE viable, but 99,9999% it's either gonna be Affliction or Demonology, if you feel like being competitive. Affliction for, obviously, cleave or long multi-target fights. But I have seen some skilled affliction locks do some serious ST dps as well. And Demonology for ST / Burst AOE situations. Destruction is... Well, far more simple, and can do some /okay/ cleave with Bane of Havoc, but it is, as one would say 'Jack of all trades, master of none.' 3. Demonology warlocks also use what's called mastery snapshot before pull. = Gather gear with as much mastery as possible, and set up 2 item sets. One is with mastery gear, the other is with your normal gear. And before pull (1-2 seconds) You use your mastery gear, pop everything, including meta and swap back into the normal gear. Metamorphosis snapshots the mastery value and can give you some ridiculous % damage boosts. But, it can also mean that if you do this late, it can brick you completely for the rest of the fight. (No hit%, no haste%... often even non-int items). 4. Demonology warlocks have 3 major variations of spec that I know of / I played. Shadowbolt filler spec that's very, very slightly better on multi target but with slightly more complex rotation (Switching to Incinerate when Molten Core procs, + You play with Glyph of Corruption for occasional instant SB procs.) Then there's Incinerate spec that pretty much just eliminates the complexity of SB spec at the trade off of very small dps difference. (You Swap Glyph of Corruption for Incinerate). And a variation of Incinerate spec, that takes away 2 talent points out of Improved Corruption and instead puts them into Doom and Gloom talent which Improves Bane of Doom crit chance. (That dot by itself can have some disgusting crits if snapshotted right. But on its own, since Demo doesn't really stack crit, the crit chance is pretty low. 5. Demonology actually weaves between demons during the rotation! For burst, You use Fel Guard, for the Demon Soul Buff (And felstorm), And then, You shadowburn-swap into Fel Hunter because it simply beats Felguard in Single target damage. Yes, that means, when your cooldowns (and procs) are coming up again, Demonology hard-cast-summons Felguard again for the Demon Soul buff, and repeats the process. 6. All three specs benefit (but are not forced to) being in the melee range so they can weave in Shadowflame. 7. You very rarely actually get to use Fel Flame. There are instances, but more often than not, Warlocks take use of the movement time to squeeze in a life tap or two when needed. 8. Affliction Warlock has by far the best execute phase of all three specs. Not only you get 12% bonus damage bellow 25% health for basically all your spells, your Drain Soul also does double the damage bellow 25% health. Drain Soul, Haunt and Drain Life refreshes your Corruption with each tick. (With a good Corruption snapshot, you're peachy with Corruption for the rest of the fight.) *A good Demonology Warlock would still probably pull ahead, simply just because of how good their single target is. 9. And one more thing, Alysrazor flying. Affli only. But so much fun! That fight by itself would convince you to learn Affliction.

Appreciate the coverage!

This is such a good in depth guide thank you

Cata Demo is pretty awesome. Shame that they ruined the spec in Legion when adding Demon Hunter

great vid as usual, I personally like the look of the first and third set - the second one doesn't look fiery enough for the theme of the raid

16:18 look at that gnome psycho smile under the tier set helm, nice lock looking 😂

Shaman please!

WillE, Im having a hard time deciding who to level and warlock is one of them. Dont care about if the spec is good or bad. Torn right now with Shadow Priest, Demo Lock, Feral tank druid and rogue. But was really excited to see this video to help out. Thank you for saying demo is gonna be really good

I remember arenas as Aff with Tarecgosa staff and the AoE Shadowbolt trinket from Dragon Soul....probably the most fun I've ever had in WoW.

Back in the day I played Destro, but requires to stand still, but you can hardly ever just stand there and cast for seconds on end

Demonology will unfortunately be using Felhunter as its primary pet outside of activating the better buff for Dark Soul CD. Your opener is starting with Felguard, commanding it to do Felstorm, using Dark Soul for its much better buff with Felguard, then when Felstorm is over, you instant summon Felhunter with Soul Burn.

bruh, the human is level 86 at 2:27

Ty for adding tier sets lol

If I remember lock had waaay too many buttons to press in cata but if you wan't to play a dot class Cata was it.

If we go off of the logs of private Cataclysm servers, Demonology warlock at the end of the game is by far the strongest burst DPS in the game to the point that they're stacked in guilds going for speed clear runs. During progression, however, they'll still be incredibly powerful but it remains to be seen how they fare in lower levels of gear

Is hunter or lock or mage better in cata

Missing the streams mate 😢 @WillE

Hi Will!

Just can't beat this class fantasy especially with those great looking raid sets :)

what you said about soulburn: soc and nightfall isnt correct. nightfall has a pretty low ppm which isnt increased if you spread corruption. this hasnt changed until somewhere in shadowlands when nightfall scaled with several corruptions up to a specific amount.

I gonna have fun in Cata will main a Blood DK :D I can't die through melee attacks :)

The Goblin jump racial ability is *so good* for warlock in raids, it's for sure my go-to race/class combo. Just get Kalytha's Haunted Locket so you don't look like a little snot creep ;)

Willie you didn't mention how hard felhunter shadowbite hits as demonololy in cata -.-

Do you still need to snapshot dots in Cata Affliction?

I stopped after Wotlk but im just here to see if my old guildies are still missing Azeroth, anyone here fom Rivendare from back in the days? I was with "Final Chapter" "A Naga Stole My Bike" "Mindless Misfits" "Unhappy Circus"

13:00 thank god

Warrior next please good sir.

That or shaman...the classes I'm interested in lol

So is dark intent equivalent to mage focus magic?

Rogue next please :)

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2:25 Am I the only one who's gonna mention that they were 86?

I hope they add the new feature from the war within to cataclysm known as the arachnophobia filter because i am deadly afraid of spiders yet want to play a game filled with spiders and blizzard needs to hold my hand instead of figuring out how to make a good game for once

Do warlocks have owls for pets in the fictional world?

Have there been any news if we are getting any fresh servers for cata?

Warrior next pleae

I'm gonna make a worgen warlock called Wargen. Get it? Don't you steal my idea now!

bummed you didnt talk about the meta glyph that lets you tank

Voidwalkers had stealth detection in wotlk and grimoers were last used in TBC

Really enjoyed Affliction warlock in Wrath. The changes are making me look elsewhere for Cata

soul harvest is a great example of how wow completely went in the wrong direction 55% health heal every 30 seconds? the entire point of warlock in vanilla was that they had amazing sustain, that you balanced with your abilities. now they just press a button? idiotic design was on the fence about cata but after seeing these changes i will def not be playing it

Tomes weren't even a thing in Wrath 😅

chaos bolt got heavily nerfed in cata

I look forward to hearing from the Demo tryhards that will farm for the Moonwell Chalice trinket in 4.2 content and complain about the mastery clown set into meta before pulls. That's when Demo and fury warriors reached their peak ridiculous min-max.

dear god these tier sets look horrendous.

I originally leveled my warlock during Cataclysm. I loved demonology but disliked Metamorphosis.

will people play cata ?

Jealous of anyone getting to play do Spine un-nerfed as a Demo lock all over again.

Demo lock here i played demo since end of bc i liked demo in wrath and i cant wait for demo in cata going to finally pump!

It's pretty great, but all classes are in Cata. It's no wonder Cata was the peak of class design until Shadowlands and Dragonflight.

Did he skip explaining destro or am I tripping

1 more expansion until we get to literally the best iteration of every warlock spec to date. Who else is excited?

Looking forward to making a gobbo warlock, n make him look gobby AF

Cata is the game

Deleted my warlock F

NO LEGION PLEASE, Separate Legion server . keep cata / MoP

You're using "though" incorrectly.

I hope meta snapshot gets removed, I really don't want to have to get a whole different set of gear for mastery snapshotting lol

bro just STOP bringing up demon hunter going to take warlock meta away please it's just so depressing ,, blizzard is stupid for removing warlock meta, we can just keep 2 kinds of metas it really doesnt change anything. everyone will be Tmogging Corrupted Ashbringer , who really cares about lore now, we can run around in classic with 2 types of Metamorphosis it's absolutely fine

I'll unalive anyone who says it wasn't.

Super hyped for aff PvP