Hello everybody, I’ve been playing in MoP server for couple months and I’ve been playing Warlock since TBC, it’s my favourite class. Always will be, and wanted to share my PvP Affliction Build with you, hope you like it.
After Cataclysm disaster on Warlock, not including Rage of Firelands patch coz as we know Moonwell Chalice trinket gave us a breath in Cataclysm.And here we are Golden Age of Warlocks (especially for Affliction). We have snapshots, huge damage output and etc. etc.
First of all, lets talk about main skills;
Bane of Agony: Main damage dot it can stack up to 10, always keep this up in 10 stack!
Corruption: Damage layering dots just spread it keep it up always.
Unstable Affliction: Your dots saver dot which has cast time, and give damage and silence the person who dispells it. Always keep it up and save your dots from dispelling.
Fear: We all know this but use this a lot it can save lifes and take lifes in pvp
Malefic Grasp: Your pathetic channeling skill, it only does proc your dots faster and we need this to get our Agony stacks 10 faster,otherwise never cast this peice of hamburger unless you’re aiming someone to kill him.
Drain Soul: Your finisher channeler, it increase your dots damage under %20 health. and deal double damage. Only use when your target under %20,
Haunt: Your only burst skill which has cast time. Use this skill on players who you want to kill 1vs1 et.c or guarantee thekill, it consume one of your soul shards and increase your dot’s damage.Otherwise don’t bother it.
Fel Flame: Your damage dealing instan skill while you kiting sticky melee classes such as Warriors,Feral Dudus…
Soulburn: Burn on your Soul Shard to enchants your skills
!!!Soul Swap: Coppies your current dots with exactly the same duration and paste another person when used second time.
!!!Soulburn: Soul Swap: Directly applies your three dots to current target.
Here we’re Stat priorities;
You may heard %6 Hit> Mastery>Haste>Critical but it’s definetly definetly
% 6 Hit>Haste Haste Haste>Mastery>Critical
Yes it’s true going on mastery will give you more damage output when you look in dumy, but we’re not standing and spamming skills in pvp enviremant as you all know. And that’s where Haste come in handy.Because as an Affliction Warlock you need to spread your dots to everyone even pets like candies. It doesn’t matter just spread and spread then you need focus on the fight, you should check your procs or cc Healers, slow objective carriers and list goes on. That’s why you should go for Haste. Mastery does increase your main dots damage but it’s not gonna speed your fear or GCD or any other thing, and with Haste Affliction Build, gameplay fluid so much to enjoy it a lot.So go for Haste -_-
Let's talk abuut Races
Best Races are Humans,Orcs,Trolls and Goblin for Warlock
Human: Their trinket Raciel and Sword Expertise, we're getting %1 Hit chance just using a Sward
Orcs: Their damage buff really good beside Pet damage aw yes
Trolls: I suppose this one best for Horde side, Their Haste buff awesome and also Ranged Expertise we're getting %1 Hit just for using a Wand.
Goblin: %1 Haste always love that and also Rocket Jump another saving CD for sticky Melees
Now,talents
Tier 1: Dark Regeneration: Healing over time to you and your pet. I can’t tell how many times this skill saved me and turn the tide of fight.Pretty awesome synergy with Healthstone.
And no-brainer. Others totally useless.
Tier 2: Shadowfury : AoE 3 sec stun is much much better than one man fear and heal in my opinion. Beside less cooldown makes it awesome choice.
Tier 3: Dark Bargain/Soul Link both will work good but if just started to play pvp as a Warlock Dark Bargain will help you a lot when you get all that fency items Soul Link will be good choice as well, but I’m using Dark Bargain atm.It can counter whole burst on me that why I love it.
Tier 4: Unbound will a second trinket always good especially with 1 min CD. You may see people using Blood Horror, it’s good yes but 1 charge fear I don’t think so.
Tier 5: Grimoire of Suprecy/Grimoire of Sacrifice both are awesome,personally I choose supremcy because I like playing with pets and they’re handy when you need to defend positions, especially against Sap using Rogues.
Tier 6: Definetly Archimonde’s Darkness, Dark Soul buff give you haste and 2 charge omg totally no brainer because your play style nearly instant and don’t need Kil’jaiden Cunning..
Oh man,it took too long well we’re at enchants and gems and profession.
Enchants: Jade Spirit For Main Hand(Windsong will help till get Jade but go for Jade!)
180 Int on Off-hand
170 Mastery on Cloak ( I guess I’m using Tailoring 2000 Int proc. enchant)
80 all stat on chest
180 Int on Bracer
170 Haste on Glove ( and again I’m using 1950 Int. buff Engineering Tinker)
Living Steel Belt Buckle on Belt
200 int 100 Critical on Shoulder
200 Int 100 Critical on Legs
Pandarian’s Step on Boots.
Gems:Red; 80 Int + 160 Hit if you don’t have enough hit otherwise 80 int + 160 Haste Orange
Blue: 160 Hit + 160 Haste Green
Yellow: go for 320 Haste Yellow
Prismatic: 320 Yellow(on belt)
Meta: 216 int %3 crtical untill you get PvP meta which gives PvP power and PvP Res.
Proffessions: Actually it doesn’t matter you can go Herbalism Engineering Tailoring jewelcrafting whatever you like.(but not mining and skining)
Reforge: First aim for %6 Hit
After that get Haste if one of your items don't provide any,if you have your 3rd option is Mastery.
Start reforging to Haste with Hit(if you don't need) then Critical and lastly Mastery,
I actually do not care about Breakpoints, go for straight Haste lower your GCD,cast time increase your ticks.
Why because gameplay is so fluid and fun to play with high amount of haste,spreading easy,cc easy,fear more faster.
Dots are ticking like hell,I'm pretty sure you will like gameplay.
It will feel slow in the beggining but when you around %17+ Haste fun beggins.
Gylphs;
Major: Glyph of Unstable Affliction: Faster cast speed awesome!
Glyph of Healthstone: Have a perfect synergy with Dark Regeneration
Glyph of Siphon Life: More survivebilty, with a decent gear your healing over time would be impressive.
Minor: Glyph of Gateway Attunement: Awesome for most situation(but bugged in server)
Glyph of Nightmare: Walk on water babe! ( unfortunatelly bugged as well :D )
At this point minor glyphs really doesn’t matter,choose whatever you like.
Ok but what we gonna do now?
Here’s what you gonna do;
Burn your Soul Shard with Soulburn then use Soul Swap to nearest target to apply your dots. Then took them from target with normal Soul Swap and spread around the screen do this over and over again. When done, seek for someone who got 10 stacks then reapply your dots again manually after this point use your all cooldowns and reapply them again with Soulburn. Then spread this god damn bursted dots to everyone, and melt the map boys melt the map. See someone dying? Cast Haunt to guarantee it. Otherwise focus on fear/silence/stun cc the map spreading and keep maintain your dots.Someone running cast your Curses!(Curse of Exhaustion). Do not waste any GCD to other spells. Create huge stress on healers with your dots and CC them. It’s easy to heal 1 person but it’s get hard to heal when everyone around the map get damage. Caught in a good pvp with someone then finally you can use your Malefic Grasp to him. You can always start the fight in this way too;
Apply dots manually, use malefic grasp make your Agony 10 then pop cooldowns and start spread, but I find this a little less effective coz untill 10 stack u were doing damage only 1 person,beside there’s no guarantee that your target won’t flee from your sight.
Survive: You have Unending Resolve which provide %40 damage reduction which is huge, that’s why I didn’t choose glyph of it,this skill will give you a fresh breath when you focused.Also you can use this with Dark Regeneration and Healthstone,it can fill your health if you disengage properly. And Twilight Ward, magic spell annoyer,especially love this skill against boomkins and shadowpriests.
Curses: Curse of Elements: Increase damage but personally not using it that much.
Curse of Exhaustion: Slow, using most of time slow flag carriers,rogues,warriors etc.
Curse of Enfeeblement: And use it to block people damage output,healers healings
Finally, curses are important you can save lifes with them so pay attention on them.
And cast your cc often, cast much much more Fear as possible as you can. Your damage output comes from your dots and while they applied focus on enemy player and annoy them.
WoW, it took too long sorry guys hope you like it,I will try to improve guide in future thanks for reading.And welcome to shadow council.