World of Warcraft: Warrior's PVP Guide - How to Kill a Warlock

Warlocks and steaks have two things in common, you just can't wait to stick a knife in one and a bad one will kill you.

The Upside:

Given that warlocks wear napkins for armor, hitting them hard is generally not too big of an issue. They also have no real means of keeping you off of them other than fear and a coil they are pretty much at your mercy once you catch them, oh lets not forget their succubus . A few solid hits and a warlock can be ground to the dust. They can't teleport or freeze you in place.

The downside:

Three letters; D.O.T. (damage over time). Damage over time is basically, well, damage over time. Warlock spells and curses that once they hit you sting for X amount of damage every second. A good warlock can set 3-4 pretty nasty DOTS on you ever before you get to them. What this usually means is that you crack their skulls open and then give a hardy "woot!" only to realize you're still taking damage after they've died. And not little damage either, 200hp+ a second is enough to bug anyone. Warlocks don't have to be facing you either to get theirDOTS off. They can target you and start running all while casting DOTS on you. Again getting to them is the hard part. Did I mention they have pets/demons to help them as well? Pesky critters that can do an additional 100+ damage per second.

So how do you kill one and survive?

The trick is to kill them and kill them fast. Start off with an intercept to close distance and hamstring to prevent them from running, if you can get in an armor reducing strike as well it sure does help get rid of their armor buff. Be ready to use your hold breakers as without a doubt a fear spell will be coming your way.

Your first initial intercept combo (intercept+hamstring+mortalstrike or bloodrage+your white damage) should damage them pretty good, usually taking ¼ of their life usually more. At this point most warlocks will either fear you or run and DOT; break fear and get right back on them. If you see that they are casting a fear and can get a punch in to break their casting do it, but try to time it where you break it towards the end of the cast...the idea here is that they can't add additional DOTS to you while they are trying to cast fear. If you find their pet to be tiresome use an intimidating shout to send it running in fear. Also an intimidating shout can break a lock out of casting. This effectively removes 1 source of damage. Once you have them in your grasp be sure to keep a hamstring on them and warlocks are possibly the easiest prey you have.

Really killing a warlock is not hard.

The Warrior vs. warlock game comes down to you surviving after you've killed them. This is tricky as warriors don't have anything to remove DOTS. If you have a health potion be prepared to use it. Bandages and food don't work because the moment you start using it the damage you are taking will break you out of healing. This is the importance of striking hard and fast when fighting a warlock to prevent them from re-dotting you. If you get re-dotted (this is where a DOT has run it's course and now a lock is going to put the same DOT on you a second time) then you're done for. At least kill the lock so you'll have something to feel good about while you walk to your corpse or wait for a res. Affliction warlocks are the worst because their can add dots more effectively and their DOTS deal more damage over time.

For the other 2 specs you shouldn't really have a problem so long as you keep them close to you and keep pets away from you.