WoW Forever — Warlock Plan

Overview Setup

Gnome Warlock on the Alliance Normal (PvE) ruleset. Tailoring uses the cloth you loot anyway, and Enchanting turns every unwanted green into materials.

Forever facts that shape this plan

• Level cap stays 60 permanently; no flying, no level scaling.
• No WoW Token and no paid boost.
• Legacy system: points earned account-wide, each character spends up to 16 at launch.
• Healing Potions moved from Alchemy to First Aid, so you can make your own.
• Crafted food grants stats plus a small XP bonus.
• Forever keeps paying people to level alts, so bags should keep selling.
• Realmless: you pick a ruleset, not a server. Grouping only within your ruleset.
• Bank is about 96 slots; a fifth bag slot takes a reagent bag (may hold cloth and enchanting materials).

Pre-launch to-dos Checklist

Addons, keybinds and knowing the first few Tailoring and Enchanting recipes.

• Install addons (see Addons & resources); pick the Forever file on CurseForge
• Read Icy Veins' Forever Warlock guide once it covers launch talents
• Set up keybinds and practice on a retail character
• Check Wowhead Forever for early Tailoring bags and Enchanting wand recipes
• October 27 – November 3: reserve character name (have a backup)
• Launch day: create the character early (faction-balance creation locks are possible)
• Launch day: train Tailoring and Enchanting in Ironforge as soon as you reach it
• Launch week: sell surplus linen and wool during the launch spike

Character: Gnome Warlock Build

Put damage-over-time spells on the target, let the Voidwalker hold it, finish with a wand. Spell levels below are Classic's and approximate; check them against the trainer and Naowh Forever's training planner.

Talents

Affliction (stronger damage-over-time spells, cheaper Life Tap) or Demonology (stronger demon, more health). Either levels well.

Training plan (Classic levels, approximate)

Always buy every rank of Corruption, Curse of Agony, Immolate, Shadow Bolt, Life Tap and Drain Life. Skip utility you won't use while leveling.

Keybinds (14 keys)

Pull macro (demon attacks with your first spell)

#showtooltip Corruption
/petattack
/cast Corruption

Rotations

• 1–10: Immolate, Corruption, then Shadow Bolt; Imp attacks.
• 10–20: Voidwalker in → Curse of Agony → Corruption → Immolate → wand to finish. Life Tap for mana, then eat or bandage.
• 20–30: same; Drain Soul the last few health to collect a shard when you need one; Fear a second mob away from other packs.
• 30–40: tag a second mob with damage-over-time spells while the Voidwalker holds the first; Drain Life to heal yourself.
• 40–60: keep damage-over-time spells on two or three mobs; Death Coil if one reaches you.

PvP (battlegrounds or when you flag)

1. Fear (Q) the attacker; Howl of Terror (F) for several.
2. Death Coil (F) for an instant fear plus a heal.
3. Escape Artist (X) to break a snare or root.
4. Voidwalker Sacrifice for a damage shield.
5. Run, then reapply damage-over-time spells from range. Healthstone (G) when low.

Demons & soul shards Class mechanics

Classic's demon lineup; Forever may change it.

• Soul shards: cast Drain Soul as a mob dies to get one. Summoning a demon (except the Imp), Healthstones and Soulstones use them.
• Keep about 5–10 shards; more just wastes bag space.
• Make a Healthstone and Soulstone after each death or long break.

Leveling route Zones

Normal (PvE) ruleset: world PvP only happens when both players opt in, so take the fastest zones, not the safest. Zone ranges are Classic-based; Forever's new quests may shift them, so follow RestedXP or Journey where they differ.

Leveling habits

• Run each dungeon once, with its quests; Forever cut dungeon mob XP and raised dungeon quest XP.
• Eat crafted food for the XP bonus; log out in inns for rested XP; use campfires and the Cozy Sleeping Bag.
• Launch week is crowded: group up for kill quests instead of competing for the same mobs.
• Humanoids drop the cloth Tailoring uses; quest zones full of them double as cloth farms.
• Don't Fear mobs near other packs; feared enemies run into new pulls.

Priorities for levels 1–40 Order of operations

XP comes first; cloth and disenchanting ride along.

1. Leveling pace: quest-led; each dungeon once for its quests; food XP buffs, rested XP, campfires, Cozy Sleeping Bag.
2. Demon quests: Voidwalker (10), Succubus (20), Felhunter (30), mount (40).
3. Wand: your most important early upgrade. Make one with Enchanting (in Classic) or buy one.
4. Flight paths: grab every Alliance flight path you pass.
5. Tailoring: keep it at your cloth level; make your own gear and bags.
6. Enchanting: disenchant every green you won't wear.
7. First Aid: level with linen and wool; Life Tap makes bandages extra valuable.
8. Gold: riding training fund (see Gold priorities).
9. Gnomeregan reputation: incidental from quests.

Levels 40–60 plan Mid–late game

Quest through the Riverglades tail, the Classic 45–60 zones and Hyjal.

• Zones: Riverglades to mid-40s, Krol'dok Stronghold (40–45), Feralas, Hinterlands, Azshara, Un'Goro, Felwood, Winterspring, Plaguelands, Burning Steppes, Hyjal.
• Dungeons: once each for quests; Forever cuts dungeon mob XP and raises dungeon quest XP.
• Professions: mageweave then runecloth bags; keep Enchanting up through disenchanting.
• Gold: start the epic mount fund (smaller if the Dreadsteed quest exists).

At level 60 End game

Gear and the Dreadsteed first, then bags and enchants as steady income.

• Tailoring or Enchanting to 300: earns an account-wide certification title.
• Enchanting as a service: enchants are cast on the buyer's gear, so advertise in trade chat or the city.

Professions and sell/craft/hold timeline Economy

Sell surplus cloth during the launch spike, keep Tailoring at your level with your own cloth, and disenchant everything.

Price pattern (Classic launches, moderate confidence)

• Days 1 to about 10: cloth expensive while tailors and First Aid levelers race → sell surplus.
• Weeks 2–4: cloth crashes → buy cheap cloth for Tailoring skill-ups.
• Bags sell steadily the whole time; new characters keep needing them.

Secondary professions

• Cooking: yes, for the food XP bonus.
• First Aid: yes. Life Tap trades health for mana; bandages and Healing Potions put it back.
• Fishing: skip unless you enjoy it.

Gold priorities Spending order

Core spells, bags (made yourself), profession training, riding training, then everything else.

1. Core spell ranks every trainer visit; skip situational spells.
2. Bags: make them yourself; free quest bags first.
3. Profession training as needed.
4. Riding fund from level 30.

Level 40 riding fund (cost not announced; Classic riding plus a mount was about 90g; Warlocks skipped the mount cost)

Epic riding (after 60; Classic training was about 900g)

Buy when gold ≥ riding cost + 4 × weekly raid supply spend + repair buffer

Bags & shards Storage

Soul shards eat bag space. As a tailor, you fix this yourself.

• Bank about 96 slots: hold cloth through price crashes.
• Make extra bags for your group; sell the rest.

Gold-making Economy

Bags for levelers, enchanting materials for everyone, enchants for raiders.

Simple pricing rules

• Baseline: watch an item for a few days; note its usual low. Launch-week prices are not normal.
• Buy: only below the usual low, and only if your product still profits after the 5% auction cut.
• Sell: list near the usual price; if the market is far below your cost, hold.
• Speed beats margin: a 15% profit that sells today beats a 50% profit that takes ten days.
• Bags: price by slots; compare to what else is listed at each size.

Playing together Group

The Warlock pairs well with an Herbalist/Alchemist Hunter and a Skinner/Leatherworker Shaman.

• Duo with the Hunter: two pets tanking and two ranged damage dealers; Fear, Freezing Trap and Concussive Shot cover each other.
• Trio with the Shaman: the Shaman heals and adds totems; good for elite quests and dungeons.
• Everyone must be Alliance on the Normal ruleset to group.

Addons & resources Tooling

Addons

Resources

Open questions to verify at launch Unresolved

• Riding training costs; are the Warlock mount quests (40 and 60) still in?
• Soul shard bags: still a Tailoring recipe?
• Enchanting wands: still early recipes?
• Does the reagent bag hold cloth and enchanting materials?
• Gnome racials in Forever
• Warlock spell training levels, demon quests and talent tree
• Auction house cut; can enchants be sold as items (scrolls) or only cast on request?