Ok, so i started off the game as a warlock. here are things that ive noticed.
You can only equip Cloth armor. nothin heavy for you my good friend. The good news, if your undead u start not to far from an area where u can get a cloth craft skill. I will admit by the time you get there, you should have equipment better then what you can make, but, if not, i personally hold a sence of pride wearing equipment that i crafted myself.
So your first quest for a pet gives you an Imp around level 4 or 5, maby sooner, i dont remember.. A godsend at lower levels. he only does like 4-6 damage to start, but, wow, it helps.
You start off with a Dagger, you have a Wand skill, and an Unarmed skill. You can learn Staffs, and Swords to i belive at the cost of a lot of skill points. my advice, dont bother with them, wands are great from what i hear (and have seen).
If there are any questions that you wish to ask, i will be happy to do my best to answer. Because my roomate is not often home, ill probably have this website open on his computer while i play, if nothing else, but, to check stats on items that i may be able to help submit. Expect to (hopefully) see a lot of cloth/leather recipies from me. I do not wish to go against the NDA to much.
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I was just wondering does race choice change mp and if it does wat race in the evil alignment gives you more?
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Do you find yourself having a wide array of ability as a warlock ( meaning you have other spells or things like that )?
Can you solo efficiently?
How do you enjoy playing a warlock so far?
Thank you for your time....
Can you solo efficiently?
How do you enjoy playing a warlock so far?
Thank you for your time....
Race Choice change Mana: Most likely yes, i only have an undead though so i cant confirm.
Do you find yourself having a wide array of ability as a warlock ( meaning you have other spells or things like that )? Yes i do, i have plenty of debuff and nuke spells, as well as i have a pet tank.
Can you solo efficiently? it is possible from what ive seen so far. Teams are still good for exp and quests, but, you can solo if you wish, there is a pet that you can use (Voidwalker) that serves as a semi tank. at least a good distraction. usually i have monster down to 1/4th health before it turns to me.
How do you enjoy playing a warlock so far? considering warlock is the only class ive truely played, its a blast. I would like to try Mage sooner or later though, they need some serious mana batteries because thier nukes drain like no other. rarely do i have to rest for mana unless i get 2-3 monsters fighting my pet and i at once. then i will have some mana problems, but, its fun.
i apologize for the time it took to answer, forgot about this thread =P ill try to check it more often now.
Do you find yourself having a wide array of ability as a warlock ( meaning you have other spells or things like that )? Yes i do, i have plenty of debuff and nuke spells, as well as i have a pet tank.
Can you solo efficiently? it is possible from what ive seen so far. Teams are still good for exp and quests, but, you can solo if you wish, there is a pet that you can use (Voidwalker) that serves as a semi tank. at least a good distraction. usually i have monster down to 1/4th health before it turns to me.
How do you enjoy playing a warlock so far? considering warlock is the only class ive truely played, its a blast. I would like to try Mage sooner or later though, they need some serious mana batteries because thier nukes drain like no other. rarely do i have to rest for mana unless i get 2-3 monsters fighting my pet and i at once. then i will have some mana problems, but, its fun.
i apologize for the time it took to answer, forgot about this thread =P ill try to check it more often now.
thanks a lot, those answers solidify my career choice. Can't wait for open beta to test it.
this doesnt have much to do with the warlock class but maybe it does... im wondering if mages or warlocks get snares(aoe or single) and AoE nukes. One of the only things i missed from EQ is octo kiting with my wizard and making hella great xp.
"im wondering if mages or warlocks get snares(aoe or single) and AoE nukes. One of the only things i missed from EQ is octo kiting with my wizard and making hella great xp."
Umm, i never played EQ so i dont have any clue what "Octo Kiting" is, but, yes, I just got my first AOE spell at level 20 warlock. Rain of Fire or something along those lines.
Umm, not to sure what you mean by "Snares" either, this isnt a drum set... ~_^ im assuming you mean like crowd control spells? If so, then unfortunatly no, I have not seen a spell that a warlock can use to sleep/control a mob. the best they can do is have pet attack the first, and the second, and hope they can keep the hate long enough for you to work your magic.
Umm, i never played EQ so i dont have any clue what "Octo Kiting" is, but, yes, I just got my first AOE spell at level 20 warlock. Rain of Fire or something along those lines.
Umm, not to sure what you mean by "Snares" either, this isnt a drum set... ~_^ im assuming you mean like crowd control spells? If so, then unfortunatly no, I have not seen a spell that a warlock can use to sleep/control a mob. the best they can do is have pet attack the first, and the second, and hope they can keep the hate long enough for you to work your magic.
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I noticed that one of the warlocks spell lines is fear. Is it possible to reverse kite or fear kite with him? What I mean is cast fear while the monster runs for 10 secs you let your pet beat on it, and or you dot it so it's life goes down as it runs away? Or does it stop running as soon as dmg is done to it?
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For those of you who don't know EQ terms, "snare" means to slow a mob's running speed. "Kiting" Is to have a mob chase you in circles while you cast damaging spells on it (preferably the mob is snared, making it easier to get ahead of it to cast said spells). "Octokiting" is presumably doing this to 8 mobs at once, though I've never seen it done on EQ. Most AoE spells in EQ only hit 4 targets ("Quadkiting") at once unless they are point blank AoE spells, which aren't safe for kiting.
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cleric of MT, Everquest
future priest of WoW
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Octokiting was something from long long ago...before they nerfed most AE spells to only hit a maximum of 4 targets. You can still do it...but it's amazingly trickier...because the only spells that can hit more than 4 now are the point blank AE spells.
yea, fear, forgot about that one, i just learned rank 2 after never buying rank 1. 15 seconds isnt a whole lot of time, but, its enough to get you to run if need be.
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have a question which is kind of like one someone else asked. as far as kiting/reverse kiting goes, whether or not there is a 'snare' type of spell in the game now or in the future - when you are soloing, which in this class seems you could do quite easily, do you have to use mana stones frequently? do the pets hold up pretty well and allow you to regen mana back at the end of the fight or do you find yourself resting often?
too cheap to me, running and turning to cast spell just seems to boring, i like ff cause ppl use diff strategies if all warlocks do same thing, all warriors do same thing etc then ill quit this game fast but im hoping that wont happen as i love blizzards games EXCEPT for diablo and diablo II they are the most hacked games EVER and i will nover touch either again ive already broke my cds and thrown away. as for eq, i had friends that loved it at first cause it was new but now not a single one likes it anymore and the same crew is makin eq II....inlcuding the artist who made the characters look horrible again so i wont touch eq II
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As for everyone using the same strategies...don't really get what your getting at. Do you mean bashing a mob to death? then no one will use the same strategy. If you mean fear kiting/agro kiting/pet tanking/tap tanking and such for warlock(from EQ experience not from WoW, dont know all the strategies there.) then of course its going to happen. No ones ever going to have a "unique" strategy unless it doesnt work as well as others.
As for diablo 2. Its a free game. It doesn't have as many things that keep it as unhackable as MMOs. You can always play the game solo, or make friends who you play with, Hacking you shouldnt really be a problem then.
Graphics should be the last thing on a list of reasons not to play a game. Unless the graphics effect gameplay or are extremely sub par, then its really not a reason to not play a game that might have good gameplay(take EQ. Has mediocre graphics to todays standards but the gameplay and friendship is enough to keep people playing. then take FFXI, which has somewhat better graphics(except grain quality), but the gameplay is subpar).
As for everyone using the same strategies...don't really get what your getting at. Do you mean bashing a mob to death? then no one will use the same strategy. If you mean fear kiting/agro kiting/pet tanking/tap tanking and such for warlock(from EQ experience not from WoW, dont know all the strategies there.) then of course its going to happen. No ones ever going to have a "unique" strategy unless it doesnt work as well as others.
As for diablo 2. Its a free game. It doesn't have as many things that keep it as unhackable as MMOs. You can always play the game solo, or make friends who you play with, Hacking you shouldnt really be a problem then.
Graphics should be the last thing on a list of reasons not to play a game. Unless the graphics effect gameplay or are extremely sub par, then its really not a reason to not play a game that might have good gameplay(take EQ. Has mediocre graphics to todays standards but the gameplay and friendship is enough to keep people playing. then take FFXI, which has somewhat better graphics(except grain quality), but the gameplay is subpar).
Warlocks are one of the classes with pretty low downtime, from what I've read and seen. Fear kiting is not a preferred soloing strategy because using your pet to tank is more efficient, but fear kiting is a matter of life and death in PvP. It's a preferred strategy for the PvP warlock, since no good player will be distracted by the pet. (Exception: Succubus' "Seduce" ability. Heh, heh. Just remember that any damage breaks the mez.)
Also, warlocks have two very nice AoE spells: Rain of Fire and Hellfire. Be very careful when using Hellfire, however, because it also hurts YOU!
Sadly, the only true snare a warlock has is Curse of Exhaustion. This is only available through the expenditure of talent points, and you can only have on curse on a single target at a time, so it's not without cost.
Also, warlocks have two very nice AoE spells: Rain of Fire and Hellfire. Be very careful when using Hellfire, however, because it also hurts YOU!
Sadly, the only true snare a warlock has is Curse of Exhaustion. This is only available through the expenditure of talent points, and you can only have on curse on a single target at a time, so it's not without cost.
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As a former addict of quad kiting in EQ ala druid, I can tell you to forget it in WoW. In EQ your fights last much longer on average than in WoW. WoW doesn't depend on inflating a mobs HP the way that EQ does. Also, in WoW mobs have a much larger melee range. If you get much outside that melee range, you are also outside of casting range. A few steps farther and you are so far away the mob forgets about you and regens.
Yes you can fear mobs as a warlock, but it is very ineefective. You don't have a 'snare' line. They run really fast along whatever odd pathing is there. Also, fear doesn't last long. Quadding is possible with the ae lines, but they really aren't mana effecient the way they are in EQ. And you don't have the kind of crowd control options that EQ has.
Forget the old strategies from there. Most of the accepted EQ strategies, were actually design flaws that the developers never fixxed because they became standards of the game. WoW didn't make the same errors. Don't count on feigning, quadding, reverse kiting, stuck mobs, etc. Looks they actually did this one right.
Yes you can fear mobs as a warlock, but it is very ineefective. You don't have a 'snare' line. They run really fast along whatever odd pathing is there. Also, fear doesn't last long. Quadding is possible with the ae lines, but they really aren't mana effecient the way they are in EQ. And you don't have the kind of crowd control options that EQ has.
Forget the old strategies from there. Most of the accepted EQ strategies, were actually design flaws that the developers never fixxed because they became standards of the game. WoW didn't make the same errors. Don't count on feigning, quadding, reverse kiting, stuck mobs, etc. Looks they actually did this one right.
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Fear has worked great for me for soloing and for PvP. It cracks me up when someone challenges me to a dule or I am in a contested area and someone attacks me and I cast fear on them and they run around while I cast 3 or 4 debuffs on them, while my summon is attacking them. That is mainly what I use fear for. I will cast a curse, then fear while it is running at me, get all my debuffs in. Then start attacking. At the same time my summon is attacking. Great for soloing. And a life saver for PvP.
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I have a question here. Will DD spells(like shadow bolts) break the "effect of fear"? 'Cuz during OB, i noticed that sometimes the effect of fear wear off very quickly. I thought it is because my shadow bolts "wake" them up, but i am not sure.
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