If you've mained a hunter up until this point, don't bother with a warlock. You'll hate it. If you've mained a Titian up until this point, you'll have abit of a laugh and fun. With that being said, the following is my advice about being a warlock. Beware of cliffs. If you fall, you [u]will[/u] die. You have no jump that can save you. Set your jump to strafe jump. Burst glide is not worth using since they nerfed it. Balanced glide is useless. When jumping the timing of double tapping jump matters. Rapid double tap will give you a rising float. Having a millisecond pause between pressing the second jump button will give you a more horizontal movement. Tapping aim down sight button will end your jump. I find this useful as it allows me to keep my thumb on sticks at all time. Beware though. Using this method will make you unable to enjoy top tree dawn blade as tapping aim down sight will not end your jump. If you intend to run high level pve with a fire team, you'll have no choice but to run radiant well. Even if someone is running a Titan bubble making radiant well useless as only one buff and debuff can be applied to a boss. Whichever buff/debuff is greatest will be applied. Bubble is currently a buff of 30% and radiant well is a buff of 25%. At least is was when I last check. This may need fact checking. [b]Sub classes[/b]. Void. Bottom tree devour is underated when it comes to PvE. Eat your grenade and kill an add within 10 seconds to keep getting your health back. Killing an add will grant health and reset your timer back to 10 seconds. This allows you to play a high risk high reward playstyle. It's also the only subclass with synergy. Don't bother with the other two void classes. It's not worth using. Some say too tree nova bomb for PvP but imo, no. Top tree nova bomb super can quite easily be team shot by the enemy team in PvP denying you a super kill. Nova warp is really bad now. Don't bother using it. Not many do. Also, please note that there is a 10% chance that your axion grenade will randomly decide you are the enemy and kill you. This goes for both PvE and PvP. Scatter grenades will occasionally bounceon the floor instead of going off to kill someone in PvP. If it keeps bouncing on the floor, do not approach it. It will go off in your face and kill you EVERY time. [b]Arc[/b]. Top tree is a hell of alot of fun. For both PvE and PvP. The only reason I'd say this is not synergistic even if the sub class reads as though it is, is because you are more or less forced to use the exotic crown of tempest. The super doesn't last long at all if you don't have a charged grenade or melee. You'll need to save both if you intend to pop your super then it lasts. Even longer with the crown. Middle tree is high dps. Pretty effective for PvE. You will need to run geo mags boots with this tree. Using anything else at all is basically nerfing yourself. It can be used in PvP as a shutdown super but you will really need to 'get good' at being a warlock first. It's otherwise not worth using at all. The class build absolutely sucks. Bottom tree stormcaller is pretty fun to use in both PvE/P. That arc soul kill a bunch of low level adds with ease and do some damage to anything else. In PvP, if all of the burst connects with an enemy, it'll roughly do 1/3 of the damage of a melee. You will be forced to use the exotic getaway artist to truly be affective however. [b]Grenades[/b]. Don't bother at all with storm grenades in PvP. It takes far too long to activate and with the nerf of arc web I don't think it's actually netted a kill. Well, at least for me it hasn't. Pick whichever grenade from the remaining two. Both are pretty good as they are based on other classes tree. [b]Solor[/b]. Top tree is godly on pc. Pretty shitty console. The difference between pc and console paly is so far apart that you can not rely on youtube for advice. What applies on pc absolutely does not apply of console. From basic stuff like actual time spent in the air after eating your grenade right down to aim assist. Whilst alot of people advocate for Icarus dash being compartutve to a hunters dodge, don't believe them. The weapon ready speed after dash will get you killed in PvP. Using said dash has no affect whatsoever on any cool downs (looking at you hunters that keep asking for a nerf) Use it. Have fun. After a while you'll not bother with it in PvP. Middle tree is strictly PvE. Using it in PvP may as well be a death sentence as any good player is not afraid. Basically you can get autoed to death in one clip whilst within your well of radiation (yes I said radiation) Bottom tree dawn blade... Does anyone use it? I mean it used to pretty good pve class but I think they nerfed it quite heavily awhile back. [b]Rifts[/b]. Healing: will save your life in PvE Empowering: not worth using over healing in PvE. In PvP, don't use them at all. They are known as circles of death in PvP as the time it takes the animation to deploy, you will die. [b]Exotics[/b]. Crown of tempest. Good pve/p Nezarecs sin. Good pve. Ophidian aspect. Absolutely PvP. Amazing. Getaway artist . Good pve/p. Transversive steps. God tier. Don't bother with any other exotic. Good luck with being a wizard. Hope you have fun. Edit: Formatting.

1. Learn to master the jump. The Warlock jump is quirky, and is the biggest frustration for new Warlocks. 2. Hunters evade damage they can't withstand. Titans withstand damage they cant avoid. Warlocks recover from damage they can't avoid or withstand. IOW, The strength of Warlocks is in their ABILITIES. Not agility or resilience. 3. So I tend to build my Warlock around ABILITIES. A high recovery stat allows you to quickly recover from damage, and also shortens your cooldown on your Rifts. Try to carry as high Discipline (grenades), and Intellect (Super) stats as you can if you're a PVE player. you may want to swap one of those for Strength (melee) if you're a PVP player. 4. Learn the subclasses and their abiities. Certain Builds and subclasses are better for certain activities. a. End-game PVE: ALL about Well of Radiance. If you try to take any other build into a raid or high level Nightfall, expect to get booted by the team leader. Equip Phoenix Protocol if you want to keep the cooldown on your well as short as possible. Equip Lunafaction boots if you're looking to maximize DPS during raid boss damage windows. b. Basic PVE: Voidwalker is the best combination of offense/defense...high priority targets versus crowd control. Equip Skull of Dire Ahamkara.or Nezarec's Sin. Use Cataclysm as your super ("Slovabomb"). Does massive damage. Just be wary of fast-moving NPCs. Teleporting out of hte way. Bottom Tree Dawnblade is very good, but that is more offensively minded, and its super is more crowd control. A good balance for a DPS player who wants a good balance between fighting with weapons and fighting abilities. Top tree can be adapted to PVE use, but requires a lot more skill you use. Lots of good exotics. Sunbreakers, Sanguine Alchemy, Claws of Ahamkara, Wings of Sacred Dawn, the new one that drops Rifts every where (forget its name). Depending on your play style. Storm caller is **okay**. Stormtrance got nerfed into the ground from its D1 power levels and is kind of a sad joke in comparison. You are really forced to run one of a number of exotics in order to simply get this subclass to perform **adequately** in PVE. Bottom tree is more of a crowd-control super....and you really have to run Crown of Tempests for it. It is HORRIBLE against high hit point targets, because it damages them so slowly. If you want to use against bosses and mini-bosses you have to run Stormdancer's Brace. Middle-tree (Chaos Reach) is a high-priority target super....and really is only useful for boss-melting in Gambit. And even that makes Geomag Stabilizers mandatory. Top tree Stormcaller and Middle tree Void walker? Don't waste the time or effort in PVE. c. PVP The best choices are Top tree Dawnblade if you're more offensively minded and looking to slay out. Voidwalker if you're more defensive minded (Slovabomb) are looking to augment your wapons and melee abilites (Devour) for close combat. Middle Tree Voidwalker (Nova Warp) and Stormcaller can be really effective in 3v3 because teams tend to bunch up, team shoot and provide other forms of mutual support. But in 6s it takes a fair amount of skill and experience to avoid getting shredded. Exotics? Mainly ones that will either augment your weapons (Ophidian Aspect, Transversive Steps), shorten your ability cooldows (Eye on Another World), or augment your abilities (Contraverse Hold) If you like playing magic-users....and like fighting with abilities as much or more than Guns....Warlocks are fun to play. Though be aware that they are relatively underpowered in PVP compared to Hunters and Titans. Bungie keeps them that way to force a more gun-based meta. So if you take one into PVP, know that you are giving up an advantage to your opponents. Especially in the neutral game. In going from D1 to D2, Warlocks got a lot taken from them....and a lot that they kept got NERFED...and we got very little in return to balance this out.

Make a dawn blade build, thats about the the only competitive subclass left. Any other subclass for warlocks is trolling or just making decent pve builds. If you want to have a good competitive class you need top tree dawn blade, everything else sucks. Ive been using warlock since the very beginning of destiny and I play with all subclasses so I’m not going to sugar coat it. Anyone else tell you otherwise is straight up lying or a casual, I play a ton of pvp and the highest success comes from top tree dawnblade especially when you reach the 5000 in comp or even trials.

Don’t You’ll just end up falling down that rabbit hole, end up playing the game on 2-3 characters, grinding out the same tedious busywork ‘content’, chasing ‘event’ content, running bounties & watching as everything you gain (materials, glimmer, shards etc) is spent trying to infuse & obtain great armour builds, then watch as both the artefact changes (defeating the point) & exotic armour is nerfed to 🤬 Find something else to do/play in the time saved

My advice is to keep your Warlock as far away from PvP as possible.

Use devour on bottom tree voidwalker with Nezarec’s a sin and telesto and you will become essentially invincible