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I just rolled a Warlock alt and am looking for any tips to help level as fast as possible. I have basically no familiarity with the class or its talents. If there's any requisite class quests along the way (that don't start from trainers) I'd also like to know, since I'm not planning on doing a lot of quests or talking to random NPCs.
Any screenshots that might suggest the most preferable UI setup would be nice as well. I've played a druid to lvl 40, but beyond that I'm not really sure how to set up a UI for caster classes.
You HAVE to quest for each of your pets, so get ready with that.
As far as a good leveling build... I highly recommend heavy affliction. At the very least, go up to siphon life, making sure you get improved lifetap, fel concentration and nightfall. From then on you can either go destruction (making it so you basically have your imp out for extra HP and DPS) or demonology (depending how deep you go, you may want to use demonic sacrifice on a pet even if you have improved pets, just because those buffs can really help with grinding/downtime).
IMO fel concentration + nightfall is
the premier grinding talent combo, as you can "drain tank" mobs with drain life and lose little of your HP, and most likely proc nightfall for an instant shadowbolt to blast them. It doesn't hurt going dark pact - I did that, though it was over a year ago so they've changed the talent trees a bit. Dark pact isn't great, but it's basically free mana if you solo with the imp/succubus (turn off her autocasts aside from invis, and just leave the imp on passive) and that lets you grind a lot, cause you'll always be able to fill up and drain tank the next mob. I think the newer grinding combo is something like siphon life/demonic sacrifice so you can DS the vw (he stops being an effective tank at around level 35 anyway) and use siphon and drain life to keep your hp up, along with corruption and nightfall shadowbolts to destroy mobs. It's a good balance between sustained and burst, plus the voidwalker's demonic sacrifice is another way to keep your hp up.
Gear-wise, in case you aren't sure, get stamina as first priority, then spell damage as second. The only exception is if you can get blues with spell damage and some stats - just don't toss out a stamina green for a shadow damage green. And when it comes to the UI, just make sure your primary dots and shadowbolt are in easy places for you to access them. Typically as a warlock you pull a mob with a curse or a shadowbolt (if it's particularly strong and your dots + drain life won't take it down to fleeing %), then you tack on instant dots while it's running to you, and then you either wand, drain tank, or searing pain depending upon your spec.