Which class is the most like a warlock?

FrancisCrawford

Magicka Sorcerer

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

What's a warlock?

D&D warlocks are spellcasters who do a lot of damage, especially elemental damage, and likely also know a FEW utility spells. They may also have some kind of tie to dragons as the source of their power.

Ranged DK is the closest match to them in ESO.

Raisin

Magicka Sorcerer

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

IndianaJames7 wrote: »

What's a warlock?

D&D warlocks are spellcasters who do a lot of damage, especially elemental damage, and likely also know a FEW utility spells. They may also have some kind of tie to dragons as the source of their power.

Ranged DK is the closest match to them in ESO.

That's a terrible description.
DnD Warlocks are defined by having made a pact with an otherworldly being that serves as their patron and source of power.
While that being can be anything, they don't have any specific ties to dragons in any way. DK is pretty much the class they are least like.

Zacuel

Other

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JamuThatsWho

Magicka Sorcerer

Sorcerer literally has a skill line called Dark Magic.

They also bargain with Oblivion through the Daedric Summoning skill line.

Aigym_Hlervu

Magicka Sorcerer

I voted Magicka Sorcerer but actually it can also be a Stamina one - no matter what primary resource you use. And I voted it because I'm personally a Warlock type of mage there . I do not judge from the perspective of D&D or any other fictional universe of modern time - my views are based on more traditional concepts of warlocks, mages and others based on the folklore of my country IRL. And it is very different from those of D&D or many other countries' lore. Keep that in mind. The lore of my country has really plenty types of heroes - warriors, sages, rogues, mages, etc. They all are different comparing to those we got used to watch on screen. Regarding mages: they are heavily based on shapeshifting ability. Werewolves are just a type among many of our shapeshifters.The shapes they use are really different: wolves, bears, birds, frogs, bulls, lions, fish and even such items like sticks, hayshosk and other seemingly inanimate objects. All the shapeshifters are divided in two types - those who transform willingly and those who were cursed.

Liches unlike D&D are not necromancers at all but their life is also bound to phylactaries. I recall some cool stories about one Lich - a mighty horseman who used to transform into a raven. He drank three buckets of water and tore twelve chains apart which fettered him in the dungeon of a warrior-maiden who had imprisoned him. Some stories say he was fettered in chains for 300 years. He transformed others into different objects like nuts, snakes and frogs (by slipping a frog skin over another character's body without any Wabbajack ). He killed many warrior champions, destroyed entire realms, he was very powerful and invincible, but still mortal - to kill him a hero had to perform a very complex ritual of certain actions with different objects and travel much because each object was far away from another. Finally he was defeated, his body was burned in a burial pyre and the ashes scattered. So, as you see, no skeleton raising or other Frankestein-like stuff and that Lich is more like a warlock than a Necromancer. Necromancers in the lore of my folk do not raise zombies or skeletons, instead they bring a deadman back to full sentient life and thus are considered to be good characters. Well, it's a really long talk on all those lore characters but as you see they all are completely different from what we see in video games and movies.

Speaking of a warlock: our warlocks are present of two types generally - those who are similar to battlemages and those who provide certain magical services (not only evil ones). Both types are shapeshifters of course, both types wield different weaponry. The second type is more capable with spellscrolls, knives, alchemy, enchanted items while the first one is usually more of a hardened warrior with different illusion spells, curses, mind control and etc. But actually both types practice the same dark arcane arts and are considered warlocks, the difference in the abilities they use regards only war or peace time. But they both are capable in any of them. Some of them can become vampires after death. Well, vampires are yet another story to tell. Those are also completely different baring only a few similarities with those based on Bram Stoker's vampire and modern fiction.

So, in TES universe I'm a Stamina Sorcerer. I rarely switch to Magicka one from time to time. I'm also a werewolf (when I played TES III 17 years ago I cured lycanthropy but used Hircine's ring thus I transformed only at my own choice, not due to the every night bloodlust - it all has always been according to my country's lore IRL) and I'm capable in enchanting items, I read various in-game books and use various weaponry and summon Daedric servants. I do many things that make me a typical warlock . So, regarding this poll, a Sorcerer is more like a warlock. Nightblade can actually become the one too, but Necromancer is definitively not the one.