Patch 12.0 Midnight Affliction Warlock DPS Guide Patch 12.0 Midnight

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Affliction Warlock Tier Sets

2-Piece

Unstable Affliction and Seed of Corruption damage increased by 10%.

4-Piece

Agony starts at 2 additional stacks, and its damage is increased by 20%.

Affliction Warlock Talent Builds

Currently, Soul Harvester is the best Hero Talent in both Raiding and Mythic +.

Soul Harvester Affliction Single Target

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Soul Harvester Affliction AOE Mythic +

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Hellcaller Affliction Single Target

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Hellcaller Affliction AOE Mythic +

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Affliction Warlock Trinkets

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Our best "Equip' Trinket this tier. Provides baseline Mastery and an effect that stacks Intellect, which can overlap.

On-use trinket that provides Haste effect while bringing a bonus to passive Intellect. Has a small chance of reducing a random secondary stat. .

Shadow of the Empyrean Requiem

Equid based damage trinket that provides a passive Haste when a target reaches 35% health or less.

On-use trinket that provides bonus Mastery, but diminishes over 15 seconds.

Affliction Warlock Stat Weights

Intellect>Critical Strike>Mastery>Haste>Versatility

It is VERY important to note that this is a rough outline of desired secondary stats. Your stat weights will be different than others due to varying gear sets and other external factors. The best way to tell what your own stat weights are is a raidbots.com Top Gear sim with Gems and Enchants taken into account. If you don't want to do that then you can just follow this.

Affliction Warlock Consumables & Enchants

Consumables

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Food - Royal Roast (Personal) or Harandar Celebration (Feast)

If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become Well Fed gaining 98 Stamina and 50 primary stat for 1 hour.

Flask - Flask of the Magisters

Use: Increases your Mastery by 165 for 1 hour.

Potion - Light's Potential

Use: Drink to increase your primary stat by 695 for 30 sec.

Weapon Oil - Thalassian Phoenix Oil

Use: Coat your weapon with Thalassian Phoenix Oil, increasing your Critical Strike and Haste by 16 for 120 min.

Enchants and Gems

Helm - Empowered Hex of Leeching

Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending

Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Legs - Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Feet - Shaladrassil's Roots

Ring - Nature's Fury

Weapon - Jan'alai's Precision

You'll want to use an Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your Thalassian Diamond.

You will then want a mix of different gems based on your characters raidbots.com Top Gear simulation.

Affliction Warlock Rotation

The openers and rotations listed below are what you want to follow in a normal opener and setting. At times these may change due to fight mechanics or needing to hold CDs.

Single Target Opener Soul Harvester

1. Precast Haunt

2. Agony

3. Corruption/Wither

4. Unstable Affliction

5. Summon Darkglare (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

6. Unstable Affliction

7. Dark Harvest

8. Unstable Affliction Dump

9. Malefic Grasp/Drain Soul/Shadow Bolt Casts

Be sure to not overcap on Nightfall and Shard Instability procs, which both have a max stack count of 2.

Single Target Opener Hellcaller

1. Precast Haunt

2. Agony

3. Corruption/Wither

4. Dark Harvest

5. Summon Darkglare (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

6. Malevolence

7. Unstable Affliction Dump

9. Malefic Grasp/Drain Soul/Shadow Bolt Casts

Dark Harvest is cast directly before Darkglare (before any UA casts) due to it not generating Soul Shards for Hellcaller.

AOE/Mythic +

*Cast a few Agonys while pack being pulled/rounded up.

1. Seed of Corruption

2. Haunt

3. Spread Agonys

4. Summon Darkglare (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

5. Dark Harvest

-5a. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)

6. Seed of Corruption Spam

Be sure to maintain your Haunt effect, as that is what procs your Apex Talent, which does large amounts of AOE damage.

Rotational Tips and Optimization

Affliction is not very complicated in Midnight, even with Unstable Affliction returning as your spender. You will want to cast Dark Harvest essentially on CD, as long as you are not going to overcap on Soul Shards. Keep in mind that Dark Harvest only generates Soul Shards as Soul Harvester, not Hellcaller.

Outside of that, you will want to maintain Unstable Affliction while also passively pooling shards for your Summon Darkglare window. You will also want to sync your Dark Harvest to your Darkglare window, to generate Shards (as Soul Harvester) once your pre-pooled shards have been spent.

While it is not a massive DPS loss to refresh before your Pandemic window, it is still something to min/max. Refreshing DOTs on the move however is a DPS gain (over casting nothing) and is one of the main perks of Affliction, it's incredibly mobile.

DOT Pandemic Range

Agony - 4.5 Seconds

Corruption - 4.2 Seconds

Unstable Affliction - 6.3 Seconds