Felguard was added during the “Before the Storm” global talent revamp. It is 41 points into the Demonology talent tree and with all those talent points comes one really buffed pet. It’s got massive amounts of offense and defense and copies a few of the Warrior’s movies like Intercept and Cleave. It’s a great pet for instances and for general soloing.
Skills:
The Felguard has a total of five skills, which is very different from the other pets. He also starts with nothing and has to be taught all of them through Demon Trainers.
Anguish: The same skill as the Voidwalker’s Torment, available at level fifty when you first get him. Taunts the enemy a good deal. In PvP you might as well turn this off to save the mana.
Cleave: Cleave is another skill available at level fifty, it’s the same skill as the Warrior’s Cleave except it uses 10% of the Felguard’s mana. It’s great at getting even more aggro from an enemy do to it’s high damage and it’s something like Suffering for a Voidwalker in that it’ll grab aggro from multiple enemies.
Demonic Frenzy: A passive ability that allows the Felguard to have a chance to increase its DPS on hit.
Avoidance: Increases the chance for the pet to passively avoid AoE damage by 25-50%. Passive, what’s to hate?
Intercept: Same as the Warrior’s Intercept, the Felguard charges the target and stuns for it a second. Great for getting that initial aggro.
Role
The Felguard plays two different games, one is the PvE game and the other the PvP game.
In PvE the Felguard is, pretty much, a replacement for the Voidwalker. Not all the way, obviously, but it’s a very rounded out melee fighter who can hold aggro slightly better then the Voidwalker due to it’s increased DPS causing more aggro generation. It’s not as tough as the Voidwalker, so it’s not going to take as many hits, but with all those points in Demonology that may not be an issue. He doesn’t have sacrifice, though, making him less attractive
In PvP the Felguard is kind of out of place. It’s great for stunning enemies and doing damage, but a Priest is just going to instant PBAoE fear it away and once it’s used intercept it’s not going to be doing much with all of the crowd control moving about. It’s not useless though, far from it, but it’s not going to be this massively amazing PvP pet.
In the Arena however, the Felguard can prove to be quite an annoying pet to handle to the other team’s caster(s), since it has high HP and is fast, acts like a warrior and interrupts their spellcasting, it lets you get out your fears and if you have soul linked your felguard, you have a pretty hefty amount of hitpoints. This makes him a very viable arena pvp pet thanks to all the advantages he gives you. Do try him out with stamina gear.
There are really no tactics for this pet, other then having it attack an enemy and use its skills. It’ll play like a Voidwalker and to a smaller extent a Succubus.
Its best role is probably with either casual leveling or in the Arena. When you’re fighting enemies that die way before the Felguard needs to heal then it’ll help a ton by doing a lot more DPS then your Voidwalker.
The most important thing to remember is that you’ll have a full set of Demonology talents with this pet which means that it’ll be pretty tough.
Many warlocks use the Felguard to level and solo pretty tough elite monsters you couldn’t otherwise, with health funnel and all its aggro abilities, you can go a long time with him against a high HP monster.