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Warlock Leveling Spec - The Best Talent Spec For Leveling a Warlock Fast

Warlock is one of the fastest leveling classes in the World of Warcraft. Now as far as what kind of Warlock leveling spec you should be going with, your best bet is to go for an affliction based build.

Affliction build is a build to maximize your damage over time spells (DoTs). It is also the most mana efficient. It is the main "feature" for fast leveling, because your downtime for drinking is minimized. At the higher levels (40+) the downtime comes to zero. You will never run out of mana due to Improved Life Tap and Improved Drain Soul. You will be regenerating health though Siphon Life and Soul Siphon. You are going to be a big mana/health rechargeable battery. Don't want to even mention powerful DoTs you will put on the multiple mobs while letting Voidwalker to tank them. Stamina is your best friend, because all of your mana pool comes from health. So keep it as high as possible. The second stat is intellect from which you will get mana and spell crit. The third stat you must boost is spell power. More damage, faster kill, more XP/hour.

What talents to choose for Warlock leveling spec? In my experience the best spec looks like this:

5/5 Imp Corruption
2/2 Improved Drain Soul
2/2 Soul Siphon
1/2 Improved Life Tap
5/5 Fel Concentration
2/2 Grim Reach
2/2 Nightfall
2/2 Improved Life Tap
1/1 Siphon Life
1/1 Amplify Curse
3/3 Empowered Corruption
5/5 Shadow Mastery
1/1 Dark Pact
5/5 Contagion
2/2 Improved Howl of Terror
1/5 Shadow Embrace
1/1 Curse of Exhaustion
1/1 Unstable Affliction

After allocating this talent points you are at level 51. At this point it really doesn't matter which talents to take next. Warlock Leveling Spec isn't just one main spec. But it is "a must" to take these I have written down. When I was leveling my warlock I also added Bane to up my DPS and Improved Curse of Agony and Suppression (for mana efficiency).

How to get the most out of this Warlock leveling spec? My recommended spell rotation:

1. Send out your Voidwalker to the mob
2. Curse of Agony
3. Corruption
4. Siphon Life
5. Drain Life
6. When Nightfall occurs, cast (instant) shadowbolt
7. Renew DoTs and use Lifetap if necessary

To conclude my thoughts, if you want the fastest Warlock leveling spec then stick to the affliction talent build. If you want to get to level 80 as fast as possible, visit:

http://www.thewowpowerleveling.info

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