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Demonology Warlock Survival: Pet, Health, and Fear

Keep the Voidwalker alive, tap with health to spare, and cast Fear only where it cannot bring another pack.

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Emergency order

  • Drain Life can recover health while your DoTs keep working. Start the channel before the health bar reaches an emergency.

  • Life Tap only when your health bar can still pay for an exit. If both bars are low, drink at the next safe point.

  • Use Healthstone below 30% HP. It has a separate cooldown from healing potions.

  • Fear only on clear ground. In caves or beside ledges, a fleeing target can return with another pack.

  • Banish demons or elementals. The Felhunter can then use Spell Lock on casters.

  • Treat elites, rares, and patrols as a different pull from the normal Voidwalker setup.

Dungeon rules

  • Hand out a Healthstone before the first hard pull so the group has one more recovery button.

  • Official Hardcore disables the resurrection from Soulstone. Treat it as unavailable for dungeon recovery.

  • For a Banish-able demon, agree on the cast before the tank pulls.

Leave now

  • Leave when the Voidwalker dies while a healthy mob is still on you.

  • Leave when Fear pulls another pack and Howl of Terror is on cooldown.

  • Leave when HP is below 30% and the Healthstone is gone.

  • Leave when both Healthstone and a healing potion are unavailable and the pull keeps growing.

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