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A Guide To Playing A Warlock/Warrior

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Tuesday, May 14th 2013, 6:54am

A Guide To Playing A Warlock/Warrior

As I have already covered the basics of playing as a Warlock, I will not be going over that in any of the following guides. I do however, recommend reading the section pertaining to this combo in that guide, as it may further help to elaborate some ideas for you. Each guide for the warlock combos will only contain pertinent information about that combo, and how to use the combo when wanting to hit Willpower Blade (WPB), and what to do/a rotation once in WPB. This guide is aimed at those wanting to play a Warlock/Warrior.

**The rotation for a Wl/W during solo play, on trash mobs inside instances, or between WPB burns on boss mobs:

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Use Perception Extraction when you are low on Energy. The skill does cause a DoT, but as all DoT's do not scale well in this game, that is of secondary importance. I personally did not level this skill until everything else was all set to go, because DoT's don't really do much in RoM until you are endgame, and then it is just a nice filler IMO.

Use Heart Collection Strike when you are low on Energy. This skill causes a nice bit of damage, but try to not use it unless you are low on Energy. The reason for this is to conserve when you regain Energy. If you only need 30 Energy to fill your bar, you have just wasted 20 Energy on the use of this skill this time around. Using this skill only when needed really helps to maximize your DPS.

Use Weakening Weave Curse on any enemy that does not have the Weakened Debuff. This debuff is important for the extra damage other skills cause when this debuff is applied.

Use Warp Charge with the Weakened Debuff on the enemy, and to give yourself the casting speed increase buff. This buff will help the rest of your rotation process through faster.

Use Surge of Malice with the Weakened Debuff on the enemy.

Use Enraged to gain 20 Rage immediately. Use as often as possible from here on after. If this skill is off of cooldown, use it.

Use Slash for a quick bit of damage that costs no Energy. Use this skill as often as possible to help conserve Energy.

Use Puzzlement for the damage and for 2 PSI.

Use Psychic Arrows for the damage and 1 PSI.

Once you have reached the first use of Slash, you should weave in Weakening Weave Curse, Warp Charge, and Surge of Malice when they are off cooldown to help increase DPS.


If you are looking to build up PSI to reach WPB, do not use Slash, instead save the Rage you gain and when you have 70 rage, use Mind Transference to gain 2 PSI, Puzzlement to gain 2 PSI, and Psychic Arrows twice to gain 1 PSI each time. This will get you to the 6 PSI needed to hit WPB as soon as possible.

**Once in WPB:

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Use Consistent Heart Strike (CHS) on an enemy with the Weakened Debuff for extra damage. This will also reset the timer for the Weakened Debuff, and restore full rage. Using this will cost you 2 PSI, so you can hit this 3 times while in the WPB state. Weave in Slash at this point as much as possible before using CHS again to make use of the Rage gained. Upon the last use of CHS, save the Rage for the next use of Mind Transference if you are in a long fight; If the fight is a short one, use up the Rage to maximize the DPS you put out.


Caveat: The level 30 elite skill Breathing Control rarely works to reset the CD of Enraged.


For now, that is all. Thank you for reading this, hope you learned something here.

Have fun out there in Taborea everyone,
~GW