Warlock

• Summon Imp at 1–4 through Vile Familiars: ranged damage without tanking. From 10, mostly for groups, where Blood Pact grants everyone Stamina.
• Summon Voidwalker at 10–12 through Gan'rul's Summons → Creature of the Void → The Binding: your tank through 30. Torment holds mobs; Sacrifice, a level-16 grimoire, shields you; Consume Shadows at 18 heals out of combat; Suffering, a level-24 grimoire, pulls nearby mobs off you on a 2-minute cooldown.
• Summon Succubus or Summon Incubus at 20 through quests: considerably more damage, but weaker threat. Use Succubus for one mob while healing yourself with Drain Life; Voidwalker for several mobs or elites. Seduction controls a humanoid for 15 seconds, but requires Grimoire of Seduction at 26.
• Summon Felhunter at 30+ through a long chain: Seeking Strahad from Gan'rul Bloodeye in Orgrimmar, then Tome of the Cabal from Strahad Farsan in Ratchet. For PvP and groups; unnecessary for leveling.
• Game files list grimoires at demon trainers, but this has not been verified on beta. Priorities: Grimoire of Blood Pact (Rank 1) at 4, Grimoire of Sacrifice (Rank 1) at 16, Grimoire of Consume Shadows (Rank 1) at 18, Grimoire of Torment (Rank 2) at 20, and Grimoire of Seduction at 26. Do not delay Grimoire of Torment (Rank 2): the old rank quickly stops holding threat.
• Summoning a Voidwalker or sayaad costs a shard. Your old demon is stunned while you summon another, making a mid-fight swap ineffective, according to October 8 beta notes.

• Bane of Agony: 72 damage over 24 seconds for 25 mana, your most efficient spell. Damage ramps up toward the end; skip it on mobs that will live less than 10 seconds.
• Corruption: 40 damage over 12 seconds for 35 mana; from 14, 65 over 15 seconds. Always apply it.
• Immolate: immediate damage plus a burn for long-lived enemies. Do not open with it before the demon uses Torment, or the mob will attack you.
• Shadow Bolt: three times as expensive per damage as your bane. Cast with excess mana or a Nightfall proc.
• Add a curse over the bane: Curse of Weakness against hard-hitting mobs; Curse of Recklessness from 14 against humanoids that flee for help.

Life Tap, Drain Life, and food

• Life Tap grants 30 plus Spirit as mana per use, rising to 75 plus Spirit at 16. Use it with more than half health while the demon tanks. Spirit on gear means mana in Forever.
• Drain Life at 14 drains 10 health per second for 5 seconds at 20-yard range. Hits can interrupt the channel, so keep the mob on your demon.
• Between fights, eat rather than drink: food restores health to convert into mana and grants 5% experience in Forever. Bandages cost no mana either.
• Health Funnel heals your demon using your health. A tester measured roughly a minute to fully heal a level-20 Voidwalker. If you have a shard, summoning a new one is faster.

• Drain Soul generates a Soul Shard if a mob dies during its channel. Forever also gives every tick a chance, increasing after an unsuccessful tick. The mob must grant experience.
• Shards do not stack: each occupies a slot. Carry 3–6 for a demon, Minor Healthstone, Soulstone, and reserves, adding one for Ritual of Summoning from 20. Delete extras.
• Minor Healthstone at 10 heals 120; Lesser Healthstone from 22 heals 300. A 2-minute cooldown, and only one in your bags. Create a replacement after combat. Warcraft Tavern says it does not share a cooldown with potions.
• Soulstone (Create Soulstone) at 18 resurrects you with 400 health and 700 mana. Apply it to yourself before elites or risky quests.
• Conjured stones disappear after more than 15 minutes offline.
• Small Soul Pouch, a 14-slot soul bag, rewards the Succubus quest at 22 (step) and the Incubus quest. Warcraft Tavern says it fits the new reagent bag slot; check in game. More space: Old Toolbox, 12 slots, from Stone Steps → On the Alert in Stonetalon; Spidersilk Pouch, 12 slots, from Stronger Than Steel at 29.

Fear: 20 yards, 1.5 seconds

• Useful when a second mob joins, your demon dies (DoTs, Fear, then wand while it runs), or health gets low (Fear, then bandage or Healthstone).
• Feared mobs run unpredictably, often into another pack, then return with it. This is the main leveling cause of Warlock deaths. Avoid Fear near camps, guards, or inside caves.
• Damage can break Fear early. Targets affected by Curse of Recklessness are immune to Fear.
• In dungeons, use it only to save the healer, with a warning.

• The wand is your key item before 30. Start with Lesser Magic Wand at 5, then Greater Magic Wand at 13 with 17.5 DPS, crafted by Enchanters or bought at auction. Alternatives: Flaring Baton from Escape, or Katis's Gloom Wand at 16 and Dusk Wand at 20 with 17.7 DPS, listed in game files. Next: Charred Wand from Dangerous! in Hillsbrad at 26, with 22.2 DPS; Gravestone Scepter from Blackfathom Villainy at 29, with 29 DPS, requiring a group. Without a group, Combustible Wand at 29 offers 25.9 DPS. Earlier group option: Sizzle Stick from Wailing Caverns.
• Staves provide spell power: Makeshift Stormcaller from Stormy Potential at 11; Staff of Orgrimmar from Hidden Enemies at 16 with a group; Wind Rider Staff from Cry of the Thunderhawk at 20, with 12 spell power; Crescent Staff from Leaders of the Fang with a group, with 26; Gnarled Necromancer's Staff from Rathmaul's Wrath at 24 in Ruins of Lordaeron, with 26 and 10 Spirit; Staff of Soran'ruk from The Orb of Soran'ruk at 29, with 34 Shadow and Fire damage. Hanashi in Orgrimmar teaches staves; Warlocks start with daggers and wands. Quilboar Toothpick, with 16 spell power, plus Expended Apothecary Vial or Witch's Finger is just as good as a staff.
• Stats: spell power, particularly Shadow for Affliction or Demonology and Fire for Destruction; then Stamina and Spirit, then Intellect. Affliction need not chase hit because Suppression covers misses. Other builds skip that talent, so hit gear helps them.
• Cloth rewards along the route: Soft Wool Boots, Soft Wool Vest, Ripped Pants, Dirt-trodden Boots, Banshee Armor, with 3 Stamina, Mogra's Friendship Bracelet, with 1 Spirit, Wayfaring Gloves, with 3 Spirit, and Barkeeper's Cloak. At 20–30: Grassland Sash, Harlequin Robes, Ghostly Mantle, Tattered Mittens, Tabitha's Cuffs, Firewalker Boots, Windseeker Boots, Desert Shoulders, Traveler's Shawl, and Soft Willow Cape. Rings: Seal of Sylvanas, Skull Ring, and Harpy Claw Ring.

• Berserking grants 10% attack and casting speed for 10 seconds on a 3-minute cooldown. Use it when you can stand and cast; it does not add spell power.
• Rapid Regeneration restores 50% maximum health over 6 seconds on a 3-minute cooldown. After combat, use Life Tap, then the racial in a safe spot. Movement, actions, or incoming damage interrupt it.
• Regeneration increases health regeneration by 20% and allows 20% of normal regeneration during combat. This October 15 change does not increase Drain Life healing by 20%.
• Beast Slaying adds 5% to your damage against beasts; Trolls have no separate pet damage bonus.
• Trolls start with daggers and wands. Hanashi in Orgrimmar teaches staves for 10s; the route trains them at 12.

• 1: Tainted Tablet appears in your bag after Cutting Teeth; turn it in to Nartok. Vile Familiars → Vile Familiars grants Summon Imp (step).
• 10–12: Gan'rul's Summons → Creature of the Void → The Binding grants Summon Voidwalker. The Burning Blade Cache containing the tablet is in Skull Rock; summon in Orgrimmar's circle (step).
• 20–22: Succubus requires eight quests, beginning with Devourer of Souls from Gan'rul Bloodeye and ending with The Binding, through the Crossroads, Malaka'jin, and Camp Taurajo (start, binding). Rewards: Summon Succubus and Small Soul Pouch.
• 22–28, optional: Incubus through Unrequited Love → If We Were Together... → The Binding (step). The handkerchief drops from level 25–27 Ashenvale mobs. Same abilities, different appearance; whether the chains exclude each other is unverified.
• 20–29: The Orb of Soran'ruk from Doan Karhan near Camp Taurajo, requiring groups for Shadowfang Keep and Blackfathom Deeps (step).
• 30: Felhunter begins with Seeking Strahad from Gan'rul Bloodeye in Orgrimmar (step), leading to Strahad Farsan's Tome of the Cabal in Ratchet. Three more quests follow through Undercity, Hillsbrad, Thousand Needles, and Wetlands. Plan for 30–33, the next guide segment.

• Recommended: Affliction: DoTs and wand, with instant Corruption by 14, Nightfall by 26, and Siphon Life at 30. Alternatives: Affliction: Drain Life, Demonology, and Destruction for groups.
• All builds, trees, and talent orders are in Leveling talents.

• Hidden Enemies → Hidden Enemies - ThrallOutside the dungeon, at 12: step
• Hidden Enemies → Hidden Enemies → Hidden Enemies - ThrallGroup only, at 16: step. Reward: Staff of Orgrimmar
• Slaying the Beast - Neeru FirebladeSame location
• Searching for the Lost Satchel and Testing an Enemy's Strength - Rahauro, Thunder Bluff; The Power to Destroy... - UndercityOff your route: it reaches those cities after 20

Without a group, skip all these quests.

• Deviate Hides and Deviate Eradication - at the entranceImmediately before the run: step. Rewards: Deviate Hide Pack bag and Sizzle Stick wand
• Smart Drinks - Mebok Mizzyrix, RatchetAfter Raptor Horns: step
• Trouble at the Docks - Crane Operator Bigglefuzz, RatchetAny Ratchet visit from level 14
• Serpentbloom - Apothecary Zamah, Thunder BluffAfter the timed Apothecary Zamah quest: step
• Leaders of the Fang - Nara Wildmane, Thunder BluffThe chain starts with The Forgotten Pools at the Crossroads. Reward: Crescent Staff, with 26 spell power
• The Glowing Shard → In NightmaresMutanus the Devourer drops the Glowing Shard

• Rathmaul's Wrath - Deathguard Kristoff, the post near UndercityBefore the run, at the Ruins entrance: step
• Justice of the Light and A New Plague - UndercityBefore the run at 24: step
• A Troubling Request - Tabitha Captiveheart, the SepulcherFirst Sepulcher visit: step

Rathmaul's Wrath rewards Gnarled Necromancer's Staff, with 26 spell power and 10 Spirit. Run the dungeon at 24.

• The Book of Ur - Keeper Bel'dugur, UndercityAt 22: step
• Lost Deathstalkers and Arugal Must Die - the Sepulcher, Silverpine ForestFirst Sepulcher visit: step
• The Orb of Soran'ruk - Doan Karhan, the BarrensFrom 20, only if you will group for both this dungeon and Blackfathom Deeps: step

Run it at 23–24. For The Orb of Soran'ruk, Shadowfang Darksouls in Shadowfang Keep drop the large fragment, and Twilight Acolytes in Blackfathom Deeps drop three small fragments, only while the quest is in your log. Choose Staff of Soran'ruk, with 34 Shadow and Fire damage and 14 Stamina, or the Orb of Soran'ruk off-hand.

• Trouble in the Deeps - Tsunaman, Sun Rock RetreatAt 27, even without a group: step. Required to unlock Allegiance to the Old Gods
• The Essence of Aku'Mai and Amongst the Ruins - Je'neu Sancrea, Zoram'garOn the day of the run: step
• Blackfathom Villainy - inside Blackfathom DeepsTurn in at Thunder Bluff: step

Blackfathom Villainy rewards Gravestone Scepter, a 29-DPS wand with 6 Shadow damage. It is worth assembling a group at 27–29 for this alone.

• Willix the Importer - inside Razorfen KraulGroup only, at 29–30: step
• A Vengeful Fate - Auld Stonespire, Thunder BluffFrom 29, if you already have a group: step
• Blueleaf Tubers - Mebok Mizzyrix, RatchetThe route does not visit Ratchet before the run; skip it

Willix the Importer rewards Snake Hoop, with 6 spell power. A Vengeful Fate rewards Berylline Pads, cloth with 10 Intellect.

• Lesser Magic Wand: Enchanting 10, Lesser Magic Essence, and Simple Wood. You need a Runed Copper Rod, made from a Copper Rod.
• Greater Magic Wand: Enchanting 70, essences, and Simple Wood.
• New in Forever: game files list Lesser Magic Essence and Strange Dust at enchanting suppliers, including Kithas in Orgrimmar, with limited stock. Check whether they sell them on beta; if so, buy some each city visit.
• Wands bind on equip: a friend can craft one and give it to you before you equip it.

• Enchanting: Jhag and Godan in Orgrimmar.
• Tailoring: Kil'hala at the Crossroads, Snang and Magar in Orgrimmar. Tailoring supplies: Rakk and Borya.
• First Aid: Rawrk in Razor Hill and Arnok in Orgrimmar. Cooking: Cook Torka through Camping 101: Cooking.
• Herbalism: junior trainer Zor'la in the Valley of Trials and Jandi in Orgrimmar.
• Apprentice caps at 75. Journeyman requires skill 50 and caps at 150. Expert requires skill 125 and caps at 225.

• Galgar's Cactus Apple Surprise at level 3 rewards a gathering manual: Mining for Dummies, Wild Harvest, or Pelt Collecting for Beginners. A Warlock needs one only if choosing gathering.

• Camping unlocks through Seeking Adventure → The Great Outdoors → Camping 101: Cooking. Brakk south of Razor Hill teaches resting by a campfire, and Cook Torka teaches Cooking.
• Brakk also offers profession Camping 101 quests: Tailoring, turned in to Snang; Enchanting, to Jhag; First Aid, to Rawrk; and Herbalism, to Jandi. They teach camping buff items once your skill is high enough.
• For Warlocks: the Tailoring banner gives Spirit, which determines how much mana Life Tap restores in Forever, according to Warcraft Tavern. First Aid's medical kit grants Stamina. Localized names may differ in the client.
• Sit for a minute at any campfire, even another player's, for an hour-long buff.

• In Forever, any cooked food grants 5% bonus kill experience for 15 minutes. Keep it active. Warlocks need food more than water because it restores health spent on Life Tap.
• First Aid also crafts healing potions in Forever. Bandages: Linen Bandage from Linen Cloth, Heavy Linen Bandage at skill 40, then wool bandages. Bandaging costs no mana.

• Humanoids drop Linen Cloth at 1–20 and Wool Cloth at 20–30. Use it for Tailoring and bandages; auction surplus.
• Keep meat for Cooking; sell gray items at every stop.

• Warlocks need money early: around 2g 74s for training through 20, another 11 gold at 20–30 if learning everything, or around 9 for essentials, plus about 2 gold for grimoires. Trainer steps list what can be skipped.
• Skip Imp grimoires after 10 if playing solo. Prioritize Voidwalker grimoires; see the Warlock section.
• Sell gray items at every stop and cloth and herbs at Orgrimmar's auction house. Aim for around 10 gold in reserve at 30, then save for riding at 40, likely around 100 gold as in Classic.

• The old Durotar, Orgrimmar, and Barrens quests remain, with the same coordinates and unchanged experience requirements for leveling.
• Trolls could not be Warlocks in original Classic; Forever allows it. The new Tainted Tablet starting quest sends you from Gornek to Nartok. Afterward, the Orgrimmar chains are available: Imp from Vile Familiars, Voidwalker and Succubus from their respective Binding quests, and Felhunter from The Binding after the 1–30 route.
• There are no new Horde flight points for 1–30. Hearthstone has a one-hour cooldown.
• Mounts still unlock at level 40.

• Durotar has 18 new quests. The Valley: Abandoned Weapons. South: Too Many Legs, Lost in the Shadows, Forgotten Loa Idols, Subjugating Pendants, Bloodtalon Matriarch, and Ukor's Lost Satchel. Razor Hill: For Honor, Biting Fruit, and The Missing Hand → Danger from the Deep → Danger from the Deep → Danger from the Deep. North: A Brewing Storm → Stormy Potential, and Galikor's Hoof.
• Orgrimmar has five level-15 city quests without combat: Lunch on Schedule → Favorite Food, Resting Stones, and Yelmak's Surprise → Wuut the Hasty. Around 4 thousand experience.
• Camping begins with a journal in the Valley of Trials, Seeking Adventure. Brakk waits at the campfire south of Razor Hill.
• Stormy Potential now rewards Makeshift Stormcaller, a spell-power staff and this route's first Warlock staff.

• Ruins of Lordaeron is a new dungeon above Undercity, levels 15–24 with quests at 21–22: Justice of the Light, Rathmaul's Wrath, A New Plague, A Troubling Request, Unending Torment → Unending Torment, and The Crest of Lordaeron (step).
• The Barrens: Chol'aruk the Vulture and False Accusation, Cleared Name are elite quests for two players; Her Name Is Olgra; and from the Field of Giants, Stone Steps → On the Alert in Stonetalon.
• Silverpine Forest: Stop the Infestation and Watching the Roads. Hillsbrad: Helping the Scouts → Valuable Positions. Ashenvale: Never Coming Back → A Void Path. Stonetalon: Bloodfury Trinkets and Pigments for Paint. Some new quests still lack Russian localization and appear in English in that client.
• Mulgore's Earthen Ring camp on Stargazer Plateau offers Caring for the Dead, Stronger Than Steel, A Word on Toxins, and the elite Broodmother (step).
• Class quests at 20–30 are the same as Classic: Succubus, Incubus, introduced in Classic Era, and The Orb of Soran'ruk.

• Banes: Bane of Agony is now a bane, allowing one bane and one curse from you on the target, such as Bane of Agony and Curse of Recklessness. Rank 1 deals 72 instead of 84 damage.
• Life Tap grants 30 plus Spirit as mana at rank 1, making Spirit a Warlock stat. Rank 1 Drain Soul deals 85 instead of 55 damage and has a shard chance on every tick.
• Curse of the Elements unlocks at 20 instead of 32, affecting all magic damage: 4% increased damage and 30 resistance reduction. Create Firestone at 28 is now a weapon enchant.
• Demons scale with your stats. Aggressive mode returned on October 1. Only Ritual of Summoning summons players; meeting stones do not.
• Casters are weaker overall: wands do not scale with spell power, per September 24 notes, and low-rank spells scale less with it, per October 1 notes. Testers call 6–10 the hardest stretch; Voidwalker and Drain Life nearly eliminate downtime afterward.
• On October 15, the old DoT-enhancing talent was replaced by two-rank Grim Reach. Other new talents include Improved Drains, Pandemic, Demonic Aegis, Demonic Energies, Demonic Brand, Molten Skin, and Bane of Havoc; Incinerate is a level-40 talent.

• Racial healing from Rapid Regeneration helps after Life Tap, and Berserking speeds casting. Since October 15, Regeneration grants 20%. Details are in the Warlock section.

• Choose a ruleset: Normal makes PvP optional through /pvp; PvP automatically flags you in contested and hostile zones; Roleplay uses Normal rules.
• Horde territory on the 1–20 route: Durotar and the Barrens. Contested: Stonetalon from 18, followed by Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, and Thousand Needles.
• Battlegrounds: Warsong Gulch from 10, Arathi Basin from 20, and the new 15v15 Darkspear Islands from 30. Testers report that only the level-30 battleground is open in beta.
• For Warlocks: against melee, apply DoTs before Fear. Undead Will of the Forsaken now removes Fear without immunity afterward, so fear again. Reach safety before Rapid Regeneration, because enemy DoTs interrupt it. Soulstone yourself before entering gank-heavy zones.

• Cooked food grants 5% bonus kill experience. Camping buffs come from campfires, tents, and sleeping bags.
• Dungeon quests award 2–3 times the experience of regular quests.
• There is no automatic dungeon finder, only a noticeboard. Meeting stones do not summon.
• The Legacy System unlocks account-wide bonuses when your first character reaches 25.
• Choose your group's preferred language under Languages and Communication to increase the chance of sharing a world with other players who speak it.

• 1: Valley of Trials. Around 7.5: Razor Hill; northern Durotar and Orgrimmar need no Hearthstone. Around 12.9: the Crossroads, until level 22.
• Around 22.8: Undercity, to hearth from Hillsbrad to training and the zeppelin. Around 27.5: Splintertree Post, returning from Zoram'gar toward Foulweald. Around 29.7: Freewind Post, returning from Orgrimmar to Thousand Needles.
• For short distances, death can provide a shortcut. Almost free before 10; from 11, Resurrection Sickness and 25% durability loss. A Soulstone on yourself avoids the graveyard run.

• Durotar: Ukor's Bane, an elite spider (8); Galikor, an elite raptor (12); Aggor the Young, an elite giant (11); Fizzle Darkstorm (12); and Gazz'uz (14) at the Voidwalker cache.
• The Barrens: Barak Kodobane, Hezrul Bloodmark with guards, Baron Longshore (16), and Serena Bloodfeather (20). Burning Blade casters at Dreadmist Peak stand in pairs.
• Stonetalon: Grimtotem Sorcerers, elite Besseleth, best delayed until 27 without a partner, rare Venture Co. elites at Windshear Crag, Sorrow Wing, and Sister Riven.
• The Barrens at 20–21: elite Chol'aruk with guards and the level-23 marauder from False Accusation, Cleared Name. Swinegart Spearhide fears everyone nearby.
• Hillsbrad: Syndicate shadow mages in Durnholde and Miner Hackett (29) from Dangerous! Ashenvale: Keeper Ordanus with two guards and Eck'alom.

• Using Fear beside another pack: the feared mob brings friends.
• Spending all your health on Life Tap during combat: use it while above half health and while the demon tanks.
• Using Shadow Bolt as your main attack: mana runs out after two mobs. DoTs are cheaper.
• Opening with Immolate before the Voidwalker uses Torment: the mob comes to you.
• Delaying Voidwalker makes 10–12 as difficult as 6–10.
• Not finishing the last mob with Drain Soul leaves no shards for demons and stones. The opposite problem, bags full of shards, leaves no loot space.
• Using Health Funnel instead of a new demon: a minute of healing versus a 10-second summon.
• Applying Curse of Recklessness to a target you want to fear: Fear will not work.
• Keeping dungeon quests for later without a group fills your log. No group? Do not accept them.
• Using Succubus against a pack or elite: it holds threat worse than Voidwalker. Use Voidwalker for crowds and dangerous fights.
• Casting Searing Pain and Immolate on fire elementals: they resist Fire, so use Shadow.

• Soul Shards Forever organizes Forever's non-stacking Soul Shards: displays their count on the bag button, moves them into a soul bag, and deletes extras above your chosen cap with one key, outside combat only. Set the limit with /ssf setmax 6; delete an extra with /ssf delete or the /click SSFDelete macro. Forever only, with a 1.60.1 file dated October 13 and Russian localization available.
• Shard Grid displays shards in a bag-style grid and warns below five. From 20, it collects chat summon requests into a list, tracks your Soulstone recipient, and places a Minor Healthstone in the trade window. Settings: /shards. Forever 1.60.1 file dated October 12, no dependencies, and no Russian localization.