25 Awesome Warlock Tricks

Warlocks have a lot of tricks, and while they might not always require much skill to play (talking about SL/SL mostly), there's always things which separate skilled players over casual ones.
Perhaps you know all of this already, perhaps you don't. But it's always good to have an open mind and a few uncommon tactics so you can adapt to almost any situation.
I'm like Athene of the warlocks, giving away free tips. Read on to find out what hides in the warlock's trick bag!

1. I'll get this out of the way: use macros. There's plenty of them to be found, and a good place to start is my Useful warlock macros post.

2. I'll get this out of the way also since it's related to one of my previous posts. Get the Felguard Legionnaire. Enslave Demon is not completely useless - you can check this topic to see a list of cool demons which can be enslaved.

3. In PvP, always buff yourself with Detect Invisibility and Unending Breath. It's 2 more magic effects, meaning it might take 1 more priest's dispel or shaman purge to get your Fel Armor off of you. And those pesky Arcane Shot spamming huntards need to spam even more!

4. In PvE, you can break Fear on mobs by casting Curse of Recklesness (CoR) on them - it won't do much threat nor waste much mana, and the attack power bonus is negligible. When the mob is coming back at you, just throw another curse and he will run in fear again without the need to recast it.

5. If you send your pet to attack a rogue (or druid), even if he stealths the pet will attack him and break his stealth.

6. If you're using Succubus to CC in instances, pull with Searing Pain (or Soul Fire) for max threat. This is especially important for heroic instances: if your succy gets attacked it will probably get one shotted; if the mob goes after you it will give your pet enough time to reseduce the mob.

7. You can keep players in combat in arenas by sending your pet after them - they won't be able to drink. Also, if you didn't know, Star's Tears is the only drink you can use in arenas. Buy a stack, you never know.

8. You can banish druids in Tree of Life.

9. Always have your Felhunter's Paranoia buff on. There's no reason not to, and a lot of invisible reasons why you should.

10. You can summon yourself with Ritual of Summoning. Helps also if you get stuck behind objects in instances (happened to me in Shadow Labs on first boss when he feared).

11. You can Devour paladin's Hammer of Justice. Obvious, but often overlooked.

12. Spend 1 talent point in Shadow Embrace (affliction) if you can - it's one more magic debuff on your target - one more cleanse/dispel.

13. Use your felhunter to dispel Unstable Affliction on you - he won't take damage.

14. Banishing a warlock's pet will get rid of his Soul Link.

15. Get Boar's Speed.

16. You can cast curses on mages - some of them are retarded (sorry but it's true).

17. Spam Rank 1 Corruption to get that paladin OOM faster! Also spam it when the rogue pops Cloak of Shadows - it might stick on him and break his vanish.

16. Cast Siphon Life on hunter's pet - free healing ftw. Also, you can either cast Curse of Weakness to reduce it's melee damage, or Corruption (rank 1 is fine) for Nightfall procs if you specced.

17. If you have Dark Pact: when buffing up in raids, get your imp out of phase shift - tell your priests and paladins to buff him with spirit/mp5.

18. You can carry 3 healthstones of the same rank, if they are from 3 different warlocks, depending on how many talent points they put into Improved Healthstone. Also, you can make different ranks of healthstones for yourself in arenas, which is useful if the fight lasts a bit. Note: all healthstones share the same cooldown.

19. In arenas, summon Voidwalker first. About 12 seconds before the match starts, start summoning Felhunter/Felguard - spam Sacrifice and you should get the shield after about 5 seconds. If you have talent points in Master Summoner, it's a bit tricky - you can still get the shield, but it's really hard if you have latency above 300. Start casting about 8 seconds before the match then. This way, you should have the shield for the first 25 seconds of the match.

20. If you're low on health, use lower ranks of Life Tap.

21. If you're facing a wipe in instance, Life Tap to low hp and use Hellfire. You will kill yourself, but won't loose any durability.

22. You can cast Curse of Tongue's on mage's Water Elemental. If you're banishing the Elemental, try to Spell Lock the mage first (maybe also Fear if you're sure he won't break it instantly) so you don't get Counterspelled. You can also CoT + Siphon Life + Corruption to kill the pet.

23. If you see a warrior pop Spell Reflect, cast Curse of Recklesness. Congratulations, you're now immune to fear! You can also cast Siphon Life - it will heal basically heal you a bit due to Fel Armor bonus.

24. Hellfire triggers Prayer of Mending - if you're on full health, life tap and use Rank 1 Hellfire.

25. Recast Fel Armor on yourself before using bandages or Cannibalize.

WoW Warlock Macros

By Ahriman

Hi ive been searching around and I realized that we do not have a macro specific thread, so I thought i might make one, because I use macroes alot to uptimize my gameplay :)

I think that good preparation is what makes an outcome of a battle, so first the "passive" macroes :)

Buffing:
This is quite good to have in the preparation time before the Arena starts, it's very fast to buff and quite easy. For selfbuffing just spam the button, for buffing other, select a friendly target and hold Ctrl while spam the button



/castsequence reset=N [nomodifier, target=player] Soul Link, Fel Armor, Detect Invisibility, Unending Breath /castsequence reset=N [modifier:ctrl] Detect Invisibility, Unending Breath


Healthstone:
This is good for raiding and Arena, hold Alt to create single Healthstone, hold Ctrl to create a Soul well.



#showtooltip Master Healthstone /Use [nomodifier] Master Healthstone /cast [modifier:alt] Create Healthstone /cast [modifier:ctrl] Ritual of Souls


Spellstone:
This is a macro to create, equip and use a Spellstone in one macro.


#showtooltip Master Spellstone /use [nomodifier] Master Spellstone /equip [modifier:ctrl] Master Spellstone /cast [modifier:alt] Create Spellstone



Soulstone:
This creates and use the Soulstone on your current selected target.



#showtooltip Master Soulstone /use [nomodifier ] Master Soulstone /cast [modifier:alt] Create Soulstone


Now we head on to the �aggressive� spells.


Curse of Exhaustion:
This will use the Amplify Curse and Curse of Exhaustion, which will reduce your target�s movementspeed by 50%



#showtooltip Curse of Exhaustion /cast Amplify Curse /stopcasting /cast Curse of Exhaustion


You can use Trinkets in the macros by apply /use 13 and /use 14 - this is trinketslot 1 and 2.

Shadowbolt:
Use this macro when you are spamming shadowbolts.



#showtooltip Shadow Bolt /use 13 /use 14 /cast Shadow Bolt


Damage over Time:
Using this macro will apply all DoT�s which have no cast time.



/use 13 /stopcasting /use 14 /stopcasting /castsequence reset=combat/target Corruption, Siphon Life, Curse of Agony


Fear �mouseover�:
This macro fear the target which your mouse is over, If you do not have a mouseover target it will fear your current target.



#Showtooltip Fear /cast [target=mouseover] Fear; Fear


Drain Life:
This macro will help you safe mana, It will only cast Drain Life if it is not channeled.



#showtooltip Drain Life /cast [nochanneling:Drain Life] Drain Life


Drain Mana:
This macro will help you safe mana, It will only cast Drain Mana if it is not channeled.



#showtooltip Drain Mana /cast [nochanneling:Drain Mana] Drain Mana


Now we head on to pet macros.

Fast Summoning macros, these macros will only use Fel Domination if you are in combat, but will summon normal if you are not.

Summon Imp:



#showtooltip Summon Imp /cast [combat] Fel domination /stopcasting /cast Summon Imp


Summon Voidwalker:



#showtooltip Summon Voidwalker /cast [combat] Fel domination /stopcasting /cast Summon Voidwalker


Summon Succubus:



#showtooltip Summon Succubus /cast [combat] Fel domination /stopcasting /cast Summon Succubus


Summon Felhunter:



#showtooltip Summon Felhunter /cast [combat] Fel domination /stopcasting /cast Summon Felhunter


Summon Felguard:



#showtooltip Summon Felguard /cast [combat] Fel domination /stopcasting /cast Summon Felguard


Petattack/Totem kill:
This macro will order your pet to attack totems, the script runs from the bottom and up.


/petattack /petattack [target=Searing Totem] /petattack [target=Wrath of Air Totem] /petattack [target=Grounding Totem] /petattack [target=Windfury Totem] /petattack [target=Mana Spring Totem]


Seduce/Spellock/Sacrifice:
This macro is the best pet macro of them all, it will uptimize your gameplay by 10!, Spell lock your focus target, Seduce your mouseover target, and use Sacrifice. Ofcourse in order of which pet you use.


/focus [modifier:alt] /cast [pet:Succubus, target=mouseover] Seduction /cast [pet:Felhunter, target=focus] Spell Lock; Spell Lock /cast [pet:Voidwalker] Sacrifice; Sacrifice


Smart Devour:
Devour the members debuffs, runs from top to bottom.



/cast [pet:Felhunter] Devour Magic /cast [pet:Felhunter, target=player1] Devour Magic /cast [pet:Felhunter, target=player2] Devour Magic /cast [pet:Felhunter, target=player3] Devour Magic


Some additional macros:

Bandage:
Will bandage youself


/use [target=player] Heavy Netherweave Bandage


Swap Bars:
This macro will swap between action bar 1 and 2 when pressed, very nice because warlocks use so many different spells all the time.