Midnight Pre-Patch Affliction Warlock DPS Guide Patch 12.0 Midnight
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Affliction Warlock Tier Sets
2-Piece
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4-Piece
Removed in Pre-Patch
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'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
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/Wither
5. Unstable Affliction
6. Summon Darkglare (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)
7. Dark Harvest
8. Unstable Affliction Dump
9. Malefic Grasp/Drain Soul
Be sure to not overcap on Nightfall and Shard Instability procs, which both have a max stack count of 2.
AOE/Mythic +
*Cast a few Agonys while pack being pulled/rounded up.
1. Seed of Corruption
2. Haunt (on Unstable Affliction mob)
3. Spread Agonys
4. Summon Darkglare (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)
5. Dark Harvest
5a. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)
6. Seed of Corruption Spam
Maintenance Rotation
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