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Originally Posted by Therion  Haven't played a warlock, but I love my mage. Lots of fun to play. |
I am the exact opposite, i have a lvl 32 warlock and i love him.
They are a complex class, but if you choose the right specs that best compliment your play style, they can be great for leveling fast and helping control multiple enemies while playing in a group.
I have been told many times before that warlocks are one of the more exciteing classes to play, as they have many roles to play. Some examples would be:
You drain souls to get souls shards and use the souls shards to make healing items (health stone: instant 300 hp) or buff items (fire stone: (warlocks only) adds higher damage % to equipt weapon and to fire spells) and (soul stone: when use on target (ally or self) gives the player a choice to rezerrect on the spot if killed within 30 mins of stone being cast). this can help in the middle of a battle and can prevent a wipe by keeping the main rezzer alive to revive the others in the group.
Warlocks can cast DOTs (damage over time) which are great for fighting multiple enemeis at once, just cast them on each enemy and then stand back and finish off the first target by useing high damage spells, continue on to the next till they are all dead, and if you run low on mana from casting spells switch to your melee weapon or wand to reserve mana. Not to mention you can summon pets to get up close to the enemy and keep the damage off you. Great for leveling solo!
Warlocks also use crowd control to keep other vital group members (e.g. tank, healer) alive. You do this by casting fear which causes the enemy to run in fear (use carfully, as it can run off and drag more enemies back with it once the spell wears off) or you can cast other types of DOTs that gives the enemy a boost of courage preventing it from running and getting help while lowering his armor effectivness. You can banish (causes that targeted demon or elemental to be unable to do anything for 20 secs, but can not be harmed as well, great to get that extra damage off you for a bit to kill your other targets or to heal yourself), blah blah blah blah blah... the list goes on...
If you want a class that requires a lot of focus and dedication then a warlock is the way to go, you can put talent points on your different types of specs to create the type of player you want to be (e.g. putting talent points on your destruction tree basically makes you a mage with a pet, putting it on your affliction tree makes you a medeocre tank with a side kick and a very deadly arsenal of DOT spells, and putting talents on your demonology tree makes you a very slick puppeteer who uses their minion to do the main tanking while you cast DOTs and high damage spells in the distance and the enemies dies not knowing your the one to blame.)
Basically the only thing that a Warlock is not good for is Tanking for a group and healing others (you have many ways to heal yourself and your pet though)
I have never played a Mage but from what i've seen they are very powerful! and they can make thier own drink/food to restore mana and health.
Most of the other classes i have only played breifly.
I hope this helps.