Comments on: Best PvE Spec For The Affliction Raid Warlock

By: Mala of Wyrmrest Accord

Mala of Wyrmrest Accord — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:43:33 +0000

I’ve leveled as affliction and demonology, and both are good. Affliction, when paired with a Voidwalker, is a great way to maintain your health and mana while taking little to no damage at all. Demonology, you start with the VW, and get your Felguard later.

The key to both is curses and drain life. When fighting, immediately drop your curses on the target, than either nuke them with shadowbolts or incinerates, or drain life and feed it to your pet.

I think Demonology would be best, because when you use it right, you can take down elites alone, making leveling easier, and all quests available to you.

You have my character name, and realm, so pop in for questions. =)

By: Jhonathen

Jhonathen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:57:31 +0000

so what approx. haste raing we talking about here for an afflciton lock and crit as well ? I feel that bopth of these stats are very important however i wanna now how much of each i will need !

By: Dem

Dem — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:22:44 +0000

Glyph of lifetap…and put a lifetap in her rotation…problem solved

By: Geomatician

Geomatician — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:41:31 +0000

Haste ofc reduces your GCD which ofc can go no lower than 1 second so thus haste comes redundant to any spell with a cast time lower than 1 sec

By: Shadowcaster

Shadowcaster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:52:41 +0000

This discussion of making regular DoTs, e.g. Corr, tick faster with haste seems to come up a lot. For some reason you can look on the forums and find folks who don’t want it. It would mess up their rotation or something. Sounds sweet to me. Affliction would be OP is exactly right. I suspect I could work out the rotation with the haste on DoTs if they’ll let me keep the extra damage.

By: Falcrist

Falcrist — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:31:39 +0000

I’ll put it this way. I’m in a pretty hardcore raiding guild (working through TotGC 25 currently), and when someone said they were haste capped, I asked how much haste they had. 30something percent with talents and whatnot. I told them the cap was actually 50% for instants and 1.5 second spells, and was immediately laughed at.
“Can you do math?” Le Sigh.

Anyway, I think I came across a bit too strongly. You are NOT the only one to confuse “Faster cast rate” with “reduced cast time”. (D2 references WOO!) And that part about dots ticking faster? I WISH! Affliction would be so OP.

By: Shadowcaster

Shadowcaster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:12:31 +0000

Yep. That was a poor paragraph. I’m not sure the mechanic is all that misunderstood as you suggest, at least I hope not. However it is easy to word wrong as I did concerning haste. That paragraph started off fine (”Haste increases the speed that your spells cast.”) then went terribly wrong.

Yes, most DoTs don’t tick faster with haste. Haste only helps cast times for the majority of spells. Where haste helps tick times is on channeled spells, which may have been sneaking into my thinking at the time. Definitely wrong as written.

Thanks for the comments! I’m thinking of doing an update around when Icecrown opens and would welcome any further comments to make the guide better.

By: Falcrist

Falcrist — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:05:20 +0000

In the guide you said:
“A Haste Rating of 32.78 decreases your cast time by 1%, and it makes your DOTs tick faster by the same 1%.”

Both of these statements are false.
Haste does NOT decrease your cast time. It increases your cast speed. To put it another way: 100% haste does not render all spells instant, but rather doubles your cast speed. This is a widely misunderstood mechanic.

****DoTs DO NOT tick faster due to haste.****
A Warlock’s DoTs will ALWAYS tick every 3 seconds (2 for CoA).

The ONLY way haste benefits dots is by making their initial cast faster.

By: Shadowcaster

Shadowcaster — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:12:32 +0000

Hey Plankie,
The rotation is described in the next article by the same author on this site. Uh…I just noticed that it says it was written by Law. Anyway, it’s called “DoT Spells and Warlocks”. Just type it in the search box at the top right on this page. Its all there in probably more detail than you ever wanted.

The obvious answer to your gear question is both, but I would get your 2pc T8.5 from Conquest emblems ASAP, which you can get from just running heroics, Naxx, or whatever. The 2pc set bonus is the best bonus on gear to date…with the possible exception of the 4pc T9. In addition, before the Triumph level gear started coming out, I had the T8.5 chest available from Conquest emblems as best-in-slot.

Stuff that hands out lots of Conquest emblems like heroics, Naxx10, and most other things are your friends until you get the neck, belt, and 2pc T8.5 at least. Then go from there, but the 2pc T8 is definitely worth the time in my opinion. This is especially true considering the T9 2pc bonus pales by comparison and triumph badges are only now really beginning to come in bunches.

How’s that for gentle?

By: Plankie

Plankie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:53:26 +0000

Hiya, just saying thanks for the info above. Really helped make my mind up on going to Affliction from Demo. Only question is, what rotations would you use for the build mentioned above?? Also interested on views about Warlock Conqueror gear? Not to sure whether to go for Conqueror set or individual gear items from Triumph and conquest emblems?

I am kinda new to the whole gearing up side as have not been playing WoW for to long, so plz be gentle

Thanks