Patch 11.2 Affliction Warlock DPS Guide Season 3 The War Within
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Affliction Warlock Tier Sets
2-Piece
Hellcaller
Mark of Xavius increases Blackened Soul damage by an additional 6% per stack. Malevolence increases the stack count of Wither by an additional 2 stacks.
Soul Harvester
Shadow of Death unleashes your Demonic Soul to assault your current target for 12 sec, dealing (232.755% of Spell power) Shadow damage and (155.174% of Spell power) Shadow damage to enemies within 10 yds with each swipe.
4-Piece
Hellcaller
Casting Malevolence grants 2 stacks of Tormented Crescendo and prevents Blackened Soul from consuming stacks while dealing damage 25% faster for 8 sec.
Soul Harvester
Demonic Soul damage increased by 45% and Wicked Reaping damage increased by 45%. Your Demonic Soul generates 1 Soul Shard every 3 sec while assaulting enemies.
Affliction Warlock Talent Builds
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
Eye Of Kezan
Our best "Equip" based Single Target option for Season 2. Has a passive stacking Intellect effect while also a damage effect once max stacks are reached.
House of Cards
Our best "On Use' Trinket this tier. Provides baseline Intellect and an on-use Mastery effect which increases per use.
Mug's Moxie Jar
A passive, Intellect based trinket which grants bonus Critical Strike that stacks when additional spells are cast within the window.
Signet of the Priory
Powerful Equip based trinket which provides Intellect and a Damage effect. Quite close to our other on-use BIS Trinket, House or Cards. Signet can also be farmed from Mythic +.
Soulletting Ruby
Ruby is a solid option this tier, but outclassed by House of Cards and Signet of the Priory.
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
Personal - Beledar's Bounty
If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become Well Fed and gain 469 of your highest secondary stat for 1 hour.
Flask - Flask of Alchemical Chaos
Strongest Flask option, with a bit of RNG. Drink to increase a random secondary stat by 7609 at the cost of 290 of two other secondary stats. These effects are randomized again every 30 sec.
Potion - Tempered Potion
Your best DPS Potion. Gain the effects of all inactive Tempered Flasks, increasing their associated secondary stats by 2617 for 30 sec.
Weapon Oil - Algari Mana Oil
Best choice for Weapon Oil in TWW. Coat your weapon in Algari Mana Oil, increasing your Critical Strike and Haste by 155 for 120 min.
Enchants and Gems
Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power
Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace
Chest - Crystalline Radiance
Bracers - Chant of Armored Avoidance
Legs - Sunset Spellthread
Boots - Defender's March
Rings - Radiant Haste
You'll want to use Culminating Blasphemite as your Algari Diamond, then a mix of Deadly Onyx, Masterful Ruby, Deadly Sapphire and Masterful Emerald, to fulfill Algari gem requirements.
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
1. Precast Haunt
2. Precast Unstable Affliction
3. Agony
4. Corruption or Wither (if Hellcaller)
6. Shadow Bolt/Drain Soul to 2/4 stacks of Shadow Embrace
7. Phantom Singularity
8. Soul Rot (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)
9. Summon Darkglare
10. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)
11. Malefic Rapture Spam
Be sure to not over cap on Nightfall and Tormented Crescendo procs, which both have a max stack count of 2.
You will hold every Phantom Singularity for every Soul Rot cast, both as Hellcaller and Soul Harvester.
AOE/Mythic +
1. Seed of Corruption
2. Unstable Affliction (on priority mob)
3. Haunt (on Unstable Affliction mob)
4. Vile Taint
5. Soul Rot (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)
6. Summon Darkglare
7. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)
8. Malefic Rapture Spam
You will want to try and weave Nightfall procs onto your Unstable Affliction target, to fish for Tormented Crescendo procs. Casting Nightfall procs on non-UA targets will not proc TC as of late Beta.
Maintenance Rotation
Afflictions rotation is relatively simple outside of your Malefic Rapture windows. You will want to maintain your DOT effects and Haunt/Shadow's Embrace while refreshing in their Pandemic window. Pandemic is essentially the fact that you want to refresh your DOT's when they reach 30% or less of their remaining duration. This will add that remaining duration onto the new DOT application without any damage being "lost".
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
Outside of DOT maintenance you will have your Malefic Rapture windows every minute which pair Soul Rot with Phantom Singularity or Vile Taint. Malefic Raptures damage is based off Mastery and the number of active DOTs on each mob.
If you are playing Soul Harvester, you can cast Malefic Raptures more often outside of your Rapture window, due to the fact that Soul Rot grants you 3 Shards when cast. Try not to over cap (outside of the opener) if possible.
The War Within Patch 11.1 Affliction Warlock DPS Video Guide
Affliction Warlock Weak Auras and Profiles
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