returning after 2 years almost two years and am at a loss

[Heathir]

Greeting programs!!!

I am totally confused by the game now...lol

A little background on me:

I started playing two years ago and was very fortunate to have Ellis take me under his wing. He taught me quests, buolds, gearing, etc. I spent a good 7 months building a multi life instakill pm and was in hog heaven
Then life happened and I had to leave off gaming for a VERY long while. Lol. So I am back now, I spent 3 days trying out my pm and it was painful. I read on the forums that DC casting is borked, but I wanted to try for myself. Yep, it sucked! I had a +20 heart lwft in my bank so I used to to switch to a warlock yesterday.

I just want to say that all the info on warlocks is very disjointed and works off the assumption that you fully understand the class, game, gear, quests and new mechanics. It's safe to say I don't understand those things. I have the plus that I still have a large supply of tradeables, Ottos and shards (I spent a lot of time on the AH). But my gear is so waked put and I am struggling to try to find out how to gear out my warlock ..as in what to get easily to start so I can work up towards the epics.

With the LR the warlock is 26, which is horrid, I would preferred to just tr and start over, but my too was trd into a morning lord and grinding two levels before I could tr into a lvl one felt even more painful than this situation .


In short I need some advice and guidance in game if anyone doesn't mind. Please and thank you

Valeance

[UurlockYgmeov]

1st - welcome back!
2nd - check the green link in my signature to help catch you up.
3rd - just roll up a new toon and try things out. Play to have fun, and learn in the process. start at level one and just play. Play to have fun. :P This is the best way to (re)learn the game. When you are tired of the toon, delete and roll up a new one. Don't spend any real money on these toons - but this process will help you (re)learn.
4th - repeat 3 but with iconics if you have them.

Have fun storming the er.... castles!

[noble_pirate]

what the problem with warlocks, lol? it's the same tactics and behavior on EE as sorc-nuker but great positive difference - you DON'T spend mana on damage, that's huge plus (and most probably is a cheat, imho =))) Just gather mobs into heap, control'em, nuke them till death, rinse-repeat-next quest..

[Loromir]

Warlocks are very powerful at heroic levels....they come back down to earth somewhat at epic levels. Even so...they are still plenty strong. You should not have a ton of trouble grinding out those last 2 epic levels. What destiny are you in? If you are in Draconic...you should be able to brute force your way to 28. Choose the element that coinsides with your pact...then just blast your way to 28. Don't even attempt to get your DC's high enough to be effective (Unless you run e-normal content)...a first life warlock might have trouble in that area.

IMO...the best destiny for warlock is Shiradi, but I'm guessing you are stuck in the arcane sphere ATM...thus my comment about draconic.

Don't lose hope...this is still a great game...warts and all.

[Heathir]

Thanks for the replies yall. So after about 5 hours of playing with gear, banks, and about an hour on the auction house I finally got to play. Wheeee. Warlock plays well, I think I am getting that, I need to learn the nuances but it plays undergrad as in totally misgeared and underlevel geared , but plays well enough with resource management to handle EH. I will talk with people on the warlock forum about how to get more out of the build, so I can start working on EE.

Where I am lost is how to go about the quests, etc. I only did devils gambit last night since it's obvious how to get too and what to do. I need help on how to work towards gear, raids, etc. All the grouping is for things like Vonn 4,5 etc which I assume means I need to do the prior first, etc. See a lot of talk about thunderforge, and dragonscale, but not a lot of posts about how to get them....lol. it's kinda confusing

[Loromir]

Thanks for the replies yall. So after about 5 hours of playing with gear, banks, and about an hour on the auction house I finally got to play. Wheeee. Warlock plays well, I think I am getting that, I need to learn the nuances but it plays undergrad as in totally misgeared and underlevel geared , but plays well enough with resource management to handle EH. I will talk with people on the warlock forum about how to get more out of the build, so I can start working on EE.

Where I am lost is how to go about the quests, etc. I only did devils gambit last night since it's obvious how to get too and what to do. I need help on how to work towards gear, raids, etc. All the grouping is for things like Vonn 4,5 etc which I assume means I need to do the prior first, etc. See a lot of talk about thunderforge, and dragonscale, but not a lot of posts about how to get them....lol. it's kinda confusing

Von 4/5 is still the most popular raid in the game (2 raids technically). Great XP in Von5 and chance for the elusive SOS shard in Von6.

For Thunderforge....do the Thunderpeaks wilderness area and collect ingots. You can build you base lvl and tier 1 Thunderforged wepaons from ingots alone. XP in there is pretty good to boot. If you can get in the Thunderpeaks raids...then you can upgrade your Thunderforged weapons to tier 2 and 3.

Dragon Scale armor primarily comes from the Gianthold Tor quest. You need to collect colored scales from the dragon optionals and trade them in for the Dragon Scale armor. You can also get red scales from the VON6 raid and maybe the red dragons in Forgotten realms. You can get green scales from the green dragons also in Forgotten realms.

Good luck.

[airbornerangers]

when games comes back up, look for me on my main thtasselhoff or prolly on dotar, will help u with dragonscales if you still need

[phalaeo]

when games comes back up, look for me on my main thtasselhoff or prolly on dotar, will help u with dragonscales if you still need

Yeah, feel free to add me on Pallai, Chennai, or Saraphima. I'm usually on from 8EST-11EST. Can hop in a group with you and go over stuff on mic if you want.

Welcome back!

[Kwyjibo]

when games comes back up, look for me on my main thtasselhoff or prolly on dotar, will help u with dragonscales if you still need

Yeah, feel free to add me on Pallai, Chennai, or Saraphima. I'm usually on from 8EST-11EST. Can hop in a group with you and go over stuff on mic if you want.

Welcome back!

Tassy, Pallai, need I remind you this is Argo? What's with all this helpy helpy stuff?

[Heathir]

Thank you for all the replies. I have been playing steady and ransacking the heck out of some chests trying to bring my hear up to par. I guided with the emerald claw which is great, I am getting plenty of raid experience. I am getting a much better grasp of the class and the things I can safely tweak on my own without breaking the build.

EE hasn't been a problem from the simple fact I can't find anyone that plays them....lol. I have foray ed a few times into EE and I am defiantly a ways off from being comfortable in there.

Thank you all for the help, I am in the process of branching off and trying to find people to do EES and sagas with me since my Epls are way behind the curve.

[Lycurgus]

Tassy, Pallai, need I remind you this is Argo? What's with all this helpy helpy stuff?

Have to assume they intend to join group, enter quest, exit quest, re-enter, die, release and drop group for a true Argo "welcome back" experience.

[phalaeo]

Tassy, Pallai, need I remind you this is Argo? What's with all this helpy helpy stuff?

What can I say? When you bought those guest passes for that Level 3 pug, you inspired me.

You're the Vanguard here, the pioneer I choose to emulate, the King of Good Deeds and Kind Thoughts.

[EllisDee37]

Welcome back.

[eircperkins1983]

I'm also a returening player of maybe 3-4 yrs maybe less cant recall. in other worlds i just started playing my only toon again 3rd life pally lvl 16 and wow so much change before returning that 3-4 yrs ago i was not able to solo vale slayers and now its cake walk but only issuse i'm having is getting into groups and trying to remember quest chains alot has changed but i do love the enhancement tree line up but also i am looking for a active guild that can help me out that is at least 150+ ingame name is holydestroye

[JOTMON]

What can I say? When you bought those guest passes for that Level 3 pug, you inspired me.

You're the Vanguard here, the pioneer I choose to emulate, the King of Good Deeds and Kind Thoughts.

OMG Jibo what have you done...

[Kwyjibo]

OMG Jibo what have you done...

What happens in group is SUPPOSED to stay in group!

[Zzevel]

Thank you for all the replies. I have been playing steady and ransacking the heck out of some chests trying to bring my hear up to par. I guided with the emerald claw which is great, I am getting plenty of raid experience. I am getting a much better grasp of the class and the things I can safely tweak on my own without breaking the build.

EE hasn't been a problem from the simple fact I can't find anyone that plays them....lol. I have foray ed a few times into EE and I am defiantly a ways off from being comfortable in there.

Thank you all for the help, I am in the process of branching off and trying to find people to do EES and sagas with me since my Epls are way behind the curve.

Have you been introduced to Orchard Slayers yet? Get a group, a slayer pot and watch the XP pour in.. (add an XP pot to gain even faster.

• Slay 10 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 3,615 XP = 361.5 xp/kill
• Slay 25 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 4,853 XP = 194.12 xp/kill
• Slay 50 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 6,493 XP = 129.86 xp/kill
• Slay 100 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 9,360 XP = 93.6 xp/kill
• Slay 200 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 14,505 XP = 72.53 xp/kill
• Slay 400 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 24,495 XP = 61.24 xp/kill
• Slay 750 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 40,185 XP = 53.58 xp/kill
• Slay 1,500 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 81,810 XP = 54.54 xp/kill
• Slay 3,000 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 163,905 XP = 54.64 xp/kill
• Slay 5,000 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 227,475 XP = 45.5 xp/kill
• Slay 7,500 creatures in Orchard of the Macabre: 296,745 XP = 39.57 xp/kill