WoW Forever Warlock Guide: Changes, Mount, Leveling and Best Race

Blizzard has written up only the Paladin in full, although all 9 classes were reworked for Forever. The Warlock kit is not among its posts yet, and Blizzard says more class posts will arrive as videos and articles.

The class also gets 1 of the 6 new race and class combos: Troll Warlock. The other 5 are Gnome Priest, Human Hunter, Dwarf Shaman, Orc Mage and Undead Paladin.

Shared rules already reach the Warlock. Hit merges into 1 stat for spells, melee and ranged, crit does the same, and items carry less weapon skill each. Caster weapons now grant spell damage, which is the line a Warlock feels.

The trees keep their Classic shape, with gold milestones at 11, 16, 21 and 31 points. Confirmed class lines are gathered on class changes, and all 9 classes sit on classes.

Blizzard plans more class posts. Until the Warlock article arrives, treat the damage trees as Classic-shaped and make the race the firm decision.

Blizzard has not published a Warlock-specific class mount quest or model.

Forever mount rules are game-wide. There are no flying mounts. Mount cost moves into riding training. A mount is granted when you learn the riding skill.

The Cerulean Prideclaw from the Skyborne Heroic Pack is a ground mount. You still buy riding skill in-game before you can use it.

Undead Paladin is the class Blizzard named with its own level-60 epic mount quest. That line does not name Warlock.

Until a Warlock post lands, plan on the shared riding skill for travel. Full travel rules sit on mounts.

Wait for a Warlock class article before planning any Felsteed timeline or gold budget around a class charger.

5 races can be Warlock. Skyborne cannot. Tauren, Dwarf and Night Elf cannot. The Create the Hero matrix is the source.

Race	Faction	Racial hooks for Warlock
Troll	Horde	New combo. Berserking (+10% cast/attack speed 10s), Rapid Regeneration, Beast Slaying, Regeneration
Orc	Horde	Blood Fury (+10% AP/SP 15s), Shatter Curse, Hardiness (−20% stun), Axe Spec
Undead	Horde	Will of the Forsaken, Cannibalize (Health and Mana), Touch of the Grave, Underwater Breathing
Gnome	Alliance	Escape Artist, Eureka!, Expansive Mind (+5% Mana), Engineering Spec
Human	Alliance	Will to Survive, Perception, Sword Spec, The Human Spirit (+5% Spirit)

Every race has 2 active and 2 passive racials. Blizzard updated the racials to fit the new class options and give each race a stronger identity.

Troll is the headline Horde pick because the combo is new. Berserking is a short cast-speed window for openers and drains.

Orc Blood Fury still feeds spell power for 15 seconds. Shatter Curse clears curse and bane effects and adds magic damage reduction for 8 seconds.

Undead keeps Will of the Forsaken for Charm, Fear and Sleep clears. Cannibalize now restores Mana as well as Health.

Gnome Expansive Mind raises maximum Mana by 5%. Eureka! lowers the cost of the next 3 Warlock spells and adds 10% to their damage.

Human Spirit adds 5% Spirit. Will to Survive clears stuns. Full racial text is on racials.

Faction choice still locks dungeon and raid groups. Horde and Alliance do not group together.

On the PvP ruleset an account picks 1 faction only. Normal and Roleplaying allow both factions on the same account.

Hardcore arrives after launch. Plan the Warlock on Normal, PvP or Roleplaying at launch.

This Horde combo is 1 of the 6 new race and class pairs Blizzard named at reveal. Classic 1.12 did not allow it.

The race stays Horde. Starting zones follow the Durotar path, then join the shared Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms routes.

Berserking raises cast and attack speed by 10% for 10 seconds. Rapid Regeneration restores 50% of maximum Health over time.

Beast Slaying adds 5% damage versus Beasts. Regeneration keeps 10% health regen active in combat.

Blizzard has not published a Troll Warlock story quest or special mount. The value of the combo today is the legal race plus those 4 racials.

More Horde caster context sits next to Orc Mage on classes.

Pair Troll Warlock with Berserking today. Wait on Blizzard for any charger art.

Warlock trees keep 3 trees and 7 rows. Gold 1-point milestones sit at 11, 16, 21 and 31 spent points.

Blizzard has not published Warlock talent names. Affliction, Demonology and Destruction labels from Classic are absent from Forever posts.

Players in the beta can try Warlock talents from 17 September to 21 October 2026. Cap starts at 20, then rises to 30. Early golds are the 1st live test.

How to read the milestones is on the talent calculator page. Spec ranks without names sit on the tier list.

Beta progress does not carry to the live realms. Rebuild the tree at launch from whatever Blizzard has posted by then.

No Skyborne can be a Warlock, so every Warlock starts in a Classic zone. Durotar takes the 2 Horde starter races, Tirisfal the Forsaken, Dun Morogh a Gnome and Elwynn a Human. The level cap is 60, and Blizzard frames the climb with 1,000+ new quests. Nothing scales to your level, and flying mounts stay out of the game.

In the mid 30s to the mid 40s, the Riverglades frontier adds 150+ quests. Shen'dralas and Mount Hyjal are the other named adventure regions, and Blizzard has not given either an exact level band.

Dungeons fall into Legacy Challenge bands of 15 to 25, 26 to 45 and 46 to 60. A Warlock clears each dungeon once for its quest XP, then heads back to the open world.

Raids open on 9 December 2026: Barrow Deeps for 10 players and Hyjal Summit for 20, with Onyxia as a Legacy Raid challenge. Upgrade buyers reserve names from 27 October to 3 November 2026, as name reservation explains.

Warlock pets keep their Classic shape until Blizzard posts the class kit.

The route is on leveling and power leveling, the instances on dungeons and the raid tier on raids.

Durotar, Tirisfal, Dun Morogh or Elwynn: every Warlock start joins the same quest route. From any of them, 60 is about 150 hours of play away.

A Troll Warlock from Durotar and a Gnome from Dun Morogh run on the same 3 clocks.

Troll, Orc, Undead, Gnome or Human: tell us the Warlock's race before the 1st session, and cancel before work starts for a full refund. The target is level 60 ahead of the 9 December raid unlock.

Leveling is sold as a pre-order: $299 with 1 booster, $420 with 2 boosters. At regular rates the same orders cost $399 and $599. The price you pay is locked and stays there after the order is placed. Order from /wow-forever/leveling.

For coaching, /wow-forever/coaching gets you a Pro who sets up Warlock openers from the published racials alone. No Warlock talent name or class mount goes into the plan until Blizzard posts it. The coach works from racials, the merged hit stat and the 1 to 60 route.