Cannibalize is a great racial bonus and can reduce a lot of downtime. Will of the Forsaken (the fear break one) is an incredibly good skill especially in PvP, where fear is used a lot. There aren't a lot of monsters in the game that have fear so it gets limited use in PvE content.
Pets are an integral part of the warlock experience, but if you are looking to have a minion who does the majority of your killing work for you then you might want to take a look at a hunter. Warlock pets complement a lot of the various warlock skills but none of them are really out there to do the grunt work, so to speak, except for perhaps the Felguard who is only obtainable by putting 41 points into the Demonology tree (i.e. level 50 at the earliest).
Here's the general role of the pets:
Imp: great buffs via Blood Pact, great mana regen, ok DPS (damage per second), VERY squishy
Voidwalker: good tank, poor DPS
Succubus: good DPS & crowd control ("CC"), can't take many hits
Felhunter: ok DPS, excellent against caster mobs
Felguard: great DPS, good tank
Try out all the pets for a few levels and find which one you like using the best. Different warlocks have different preferences. Don't write off a pet before getting all their skills, either! Many warlocks ditch the Succubus as soon as they get her at level 20, but she's pretty much worthless at that level- she doesn't get all of her skills until level 26 or so. Same for the Felhunter & Felguard. Skills for pets are obtained through grimoires sold by a demon trainer who usually sits next to any given warlock trainer.
Tailoring is a very good profession for a warlock- the level 70 tailoring recipes are VERY good, considering the ease of making them. There is no associated gathering profession with tailoring, so you can take whatever you want. If you grab herbalism or mining you can sell the proceeds on the auction house to finance gear upgrades. Enchanting is also good, but it tends to be expensive to level.
You can only pick 2 main professions, but you can get all 3 secondary professions (cooking, first aid, fishing) at the same time. They're all worth getting (some would argue that point about fishing:P), so be sure to pick them up as early as possible!
A note on character transfers: you can only transfer PvP to PvP, PvP to PvE, or PvE to PvE. No PvE to PvP server transfers. They implemented these back when the old honor system was in place and frankly I don't know why that requirement is still around but it is.
Don't wait till you need an instance run to join a guild. Being part of a guild increased my enjoyment of the game by about 100%. Even if you don't talk in guild chat, just getting to know folks in the guild really makes the game fun, not to mention that help is only a question away.:)
EDIT: bah, Alleria beat me to some stuff
Pets are an integral part of the warlock experience, but if you are looking to have a minion who does the majority of your killing work for you then you might want to take a look at a hunter. Warlock pets complement a lot of the various warlock skills but none of them are really out there to do the grunt work, so to speak, except for perhaps the Felguard who is only obtainable by putting 41 points into the Demonology tree (i.e. level 50 at the earliest).
Here's the general role of the pets:
Imp: great buffs via Blood Pact, great mana regen, ok DPS (damage per second), VERY squishy
Voidwalker: good tank, poor DPS
Succubus: good DPS & crowd control ("CC"), can't take many hits
Felhunter: ok DPS, excellent against caster mobs
Felguard: great DPS, good tank
Try out all the pets for a few levels and find which one you like using the best. Different warlocks have different preferences. Don't write off a pet before getting all their skills, either! Many warlocks ditch the Succubus as soon as they get her at level 20, but she's pretty much worthless at that level- she doesn't get all of her skills until level 26 or so. Same for the Felhunter & Felguard. Skills for pets are obtained through grimoires sold by a demon trainer who usually sits next to any given warlock trainer.
Tailoring is a very good profession for a warlock- the level 70 tailoring recipes are VERY good, considering the ease of making them. There is no associated gathering profession with tailoring, so you can take whatever you want. If you grab herbalism or mining you can sell the proceeds on the auction house to finance gear upgrades. Enchanting is also good, but it tends to be expensive to level.
You can only pick 2 main professions, but you can get all 3 secondary professions (cooking, first aid, fishing) at the same time. They're all worth getting (some would argue that point about fishing:P), so be sure to pick them up as early as possible!
A note on character transfers: you can only transfer PvP to PvP, PvP to PvE, or PvE to PvE. No PvE to PvP server transfers. They implemented these back when the old honor system was in place and frankly I don't know why that requirement is still around but it is.
Don't wait till you need an instance run to join a guild. Being part of a guild increased my enjoyment of the game by about 100%. Even if you don't talk in guild chat, just getting to know folks in the guild really makes the game fun, not to mention that help is only a question away.:)
EDIT: bah, Alleria beat me to some stuff