What makes Each of the 3 Warlocks specs fun for you in Pve or Pvp?
Just asking before leveling my old Vanilla Warlock that still sits at 60…
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To be honest - fun wise they are not in the best spot at the moment. They have decent numbers, you can do siper good in arena/BG/raids, you can do stuff, but the hardcasting and ramp-up of the class is very high, and it gets old very quickly. Also spell interupting is beyond joke, you have to sacrifice good pet to get it. Just play hunter, it does everything better and you have a freedom of movement.
Demonology - Love the fantasy of summoning a bunch of demons. It feels powerful to do big implosions and various combos with your demons. It very much feels like it rewards you for timing things right like with nether portal getting a load of demons and increasing their uptime or with demonic consumption creating a tyrant of extreme damage.
Affliction - In pve the damage can feel redundant but in battlegrounds and arenas where you’re basically running around with everything in sight being pressured by your dots, waiting for your perfect chance to melt something it’s just a very powerful feeling!
Destruction - In all game modes destruction can feel frustrating when nothing’s proccing, but when you get an extremely strong chain of chaos bolts off watching the massive damage rack up to the insane levels is just an amazing feeling.
Overall if a warlock is played well (and in many cases allowed to do their job without being battered by raid mechanics and interrupts), you’re going to have an amazing time.
Warlocks are appalling. I’m sorry to say this but they are atrociously designed specs across the board.
Destruction is a badly designed Ele Shaman and Demonology is a badly designed BM Hunter. Affliction being a trainwreck in a class of its own.
Imagine an Ele Shaman where you have to talent into Chain Lightning and where Flame Shock doesn’t proc Lava Burst. Imagine an Ele Shaman where your mobility and self healing is non existent - That is current Destro Lock.
Imagine a BM Hunter where your pet is made of paper, you have to talent into Kill Command and your multishot/beast cleave has a cast time - congratulations you have Demo Lock.
Not only this but imagine an Ele Shaman and BM Hunter where your only real damage comes every 3 minutes… yeah that’s Destro and Demo.
Destro needs the following as an absolute minimum to feel fun.
- Soul Fire baseline, procs on Immolate ticks. Generates two Soul Shards.
- Chaos Bolt becomes an absolute nuke, risk and reward ‘treat’ spell that costs 5 Soul Shards.
- Cataclysm baseline and can proc from Rain of Fire damage
- Backdraft gives two charges by default
- Fire and Brimstone baseline
- Channel Demonfire baseline and generates soul shard fragments based on number of targets hit with Immolate.
Demo needs the following
- Soul Strike baseline
- Demonic Calling baseline
- Summon Vilefiend baseline
- Hand of Gul’dan instant cast
- Doom changed to tick instantly. Each tick has a small chance to summon a Doomguard. No more 30 second DoT.
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not fun at all, suggest play BM hunter or fire mage
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As Affliction:
This moment when you realise that Moonfire does the same amount of damage as Corrption but can hit up to 2 targets while regenerate your astral power and does instant damage on hit
And for Sunfire it´s literally a instant seed of corruption that you dont even need to pop to do damage
All in all Affliction feels like its designed to challenge 2~3 mobs at the time
with massive button spam.
Even when i try to cast haunt while more than 3 mobs have my dots on them i am probably sacrificing my dots on one mob to increase my damage by 10% on another
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Destruction is fun if you like spamming the same button that’s supposed to be your great special spell. It is so ridiculously bad designed right now. You barely make use of your other abilities anymore, which have been turned into blank filler that does nothing and Chaos bolt has been reduced to “spender” and your damage is very dependent on Infernal windows with Infernal having pretty big CD. Then it depends you either do high damage in PvP or low damage if in PvP.
Demonology is fun if you like loosing out DPS because your dreadstalker AI is too dumb to attack the target immideately. The whole spec is pretty poorly made too even more so than Destro because Destro can still be changed. The rotation is incredibly repetetive but your it’s apparently good in M+ with burst AoE and Tyrant being relatively accessible. If you wanna do M+ the spec works but it probably isn’t ideal, still I guess not bad as an alt I guess.
Affliction I don’t know that much about it but if Im not mistaken they’re the best warlock raid spec rn but Affliction warlocks aren’t happy with the spec either, but I will leave that to affliction warlock.
Tbh not gonna lie this sounded bit sarcastic but it’s all true Warlock hasn’t been really great since MoP and good since Legion.
Nothing gives fun playing WL nowadays. Just habit and class fantasy keeps me somewhat.
I cant speak for destro or demon locks, as ive only ever been interrested in affliction.
I can however say with All my heart: STAY AWAY!. For your own good. Its in a terrible state currently. Its simply boring, uninspired and toenail cringy.
The class fantasy has gone to the crapper.
Last time IT was really fun, was in Mists of Pandaria.
And it seems like the Shadowlands iteration is going to be just as bland, Borring and messy as the past expansions.
I am seriously disappointed by the answers, seems almost nobody is actually fun playing Warlocks…
Maybe the unpruning will help for shadowlands… but so far it seems they arent changing that much to the core of the class specs
Started in Legion so never seen the “golden age” of Warlocdom (is this a word?)
But totally loved the affliction then and have ton os fun with an Infernal lumbering around, waiting my comand to gracefully kill anything like Oddjob serving Goldeneye 
And of course, Bro’sull… man I loved Thal’kiel, even the spec was a torture to play, it was more or less funny
I’m a bit sad and dissapointed we stuck with that damn Darklare (is that even a Demon? And what the hell it is doing in the aff spec?!)
Tastes are different, but I love BfA Demonolgy… its more fun for me than it was in Legion
u didnt play legion then… in bfa they RIPed the artifact ability, the “imps riding dreadstalkers” talent, the AOE ability through ur active summons…
And they are what to do exactly about my prefered style or idea about fun?
Demonic Empowerment was so damn anoying I could tear my eyes out
Not fun? Im having a blast as a Desto Warlock.
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I guess the big blasts of your bolt feel rewarding while leveling?
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Havoc that makes Destro fun to me.
Strangely in earlier expansions I hated managing Havoc, so I did not play much destro (or lock in general), but rolling havoc azerite makes it really rewarding.
Also, you can make some nasty things with bane of Havoc in bgs.
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I see all these comments about people not really liking their warlocks anymore…
Is this specifically for all caster specs? Mages, shadow, ballance, Ele? Somehow even to me as a typical caster and healer player, they all feel lackluster compared to some of the more fun melee dps like Unholy, windwalker, Survival and Fury…
I was hoping to find some fun with Warlocks, and while all 3 specs are fun around level 70, that doesnt say to much about 120, or even if they will still be fun in 3 weeks…
Maybe its us the players expecting to much?
My main is and always will be destro lock. I lvling now other race after one of previous hit 120. Idk im addicted to this class 
I can see how its fun, now at level 70+ while leveling, i find all 3 specs unique and fun…
Sadly Affliction is so low damage in groups, it has a huge rampup and no direct aoe dps at this level… so for a dps class it trails other classes so far in numbers, that i got kicked from a dungeon today just before the finall boss with the remark, my dps was so low that i dont deserve the reward for finnishing the dungeon…
Clearly shows how much there is wrong with the l3veling ballance