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

araz
astral
para
signet
void
sac

Araz's Ritual Forge


Our best "On use" based Single Target option for Season 3. Grants baseline Critical Strike and a lot of Intellect on a 2 minute cooldown. 

Astral Antenna


Our best "Equip' Trinket this tier. Provides baseline Intellect and a Critical Strike bonus when you come in contact with a spawned orb. Effects do stack.

Azhiccaran Parapodia


A passive trinket which both does damage and also grants intellect based on bug spawns. Quite strong equip based trinket that an be farmed from M+. 

Signet of the Priory


Powerful on use based trinket which provides Intellect and a secondary stat bonus. Signet can also be farmed from Mythic +.


Diamantine Voidcore


Strong equip based trinket that grants bonus damage/shield effect to the Voidglass Shards bonus in Manaforge Omega. 

Ara-Kara Sacbrood


Equip trinket that both deals damage and provides a stacking intellect effect. Can also be farmed from M+. 

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

beledar
alchem
tempered
mana oil

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

Enchant
masterful

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 11.2 Affliction Warlock DPS Video Guide

Affliction Warlock Weak Auras and Profiles

My Warlock Central Weak Aura for The War Within

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Soulstone Reminder Weak Aura

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Cursor Weak Aura

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