Warlock

Warlock

Professions

The choice of professions for a Warlock in Wrath of the Lich King mainly depends on your goals: crafting gear, preparing consumables or earning gold.

Professions support your character's progression, but they do not replace choices about gear, talents and gameplay.

Tailoring and Enchanting

Tailoring is almost essential for the Warlock: it lets you craft very powerful cloth sets, some pieces of which last through a large part of the expansion. Enchanting lets you improve your gear, and its ring enchantments increase spell damage.

Alchemy and Herbalism

Herbalism lets you gather plants, and Alchemy is used to make potions, elixirs and flasks.

Engineering and Mining

Engineering makes items usable in combat, in PvE as well as in PvP, and Mining provides some of its materials.

Jewelcrafting

Jewelcrafting cuts the gems to place in the sockets of your gear.

Inscription and Herbalism

Inscription uses the plants gathered with Herbalism to make inks and items to sell to other players.

Cooking, Fishing and First Aid

Cooking and Fishing provide useful food, and First Aid lets you make bandages.

Which professions suit your specialization?

Affliction

The Tailoring + Enchanting combination is the most useful, as for the other specializations.

Demonology

Tailoring remains the first choice; Engineering brings useful items in PvP.

Destruction

Tailoring lets you craft the set suited to your version, Shadow or Fire; Enchanting complements this choice well.

Key takeaway

Tailoring is the Warlock's most important profession in Wrath of the Lich King: think about it from the start of your progression.