Affliction Warlock DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Season 1

This section covers your character's optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Affliction Warlock, please visit the following dedicated Stats page.

Socketable gems are divided in two categories: Epic and Rare. The former offer a powerful effect but is limited to 1 equipped, whereas the latter includes single or two secondaries stats combination gems.

Gems can be applied to a Helm, Bracer, or Belt via the Radiant Jewelbinder item from the Great Vault.

The Dazzling Diamond Epic gems of choice are Indecipherable Eversong Diamond or Powerful Eversong Diamond. The damage difference is not as pronounced and depending on your personal stat distribution and item level one may be better than the other.

In terms of itemization, and due to the low amount of stats offered by gems in general, the strategy is to gem with less important stats to round up the character, so combinations with Versatility and another secondary stat are usually preferred.

The gems that most often come up in BiS setups are the following:

• Peridots: Flawless Deadly Peridot and Flawless Versatile Peridot
• Lapis: Flawless Deadly Lapis and Flawless Masterful Lapis
• Amethysts: Flawless Deadly Amethyst and Flawless Quick Amethyst
• Garnets: Flawless Masterful Garnet

It is highly recommended using Raidbots to sim your character's ideal gems and enchants, as they might differ from general recommendations.

Make sure to enable the checkboxes with "Always use" and "Only 4+ Colors" in the options.

Slot	Enchantment
Helm	Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Legs	Sunfire Silk Spellthread
Feet	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Rings	Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Secondary stat weapon enchants may provide better value than Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei but which one is best for you heavily depends on the rest of your gear. As such, depending on your current stat distribution, you may want to sim yourself as your best secondary stat enchant may differ from the one listed above.

For Season 1, Flask of the Magisters is the default choice.

The numerically best potion is Draught of Rampant Abandon which comes with a substantial drawback of spawning a silencing pool under the caster after the end of the duration.

The less dangerous alternative around 10% worse but with no drawbacks is Light's Potential.

Silvermoon Health Potion is the healing potion of choice.

Each player stat distribution will dictate what is their optimal Feast or Master level food. This includes any of the 65 highest secondary or 50 primary stat food buffs. Below are some examples:

• Blooming Feast - Feast
• Silvermoon Parade - Feast
• Champion's Bento - Personal
• Royal Roast - Personal

Hearty version of food should be considered on situations where wiping/dying is rather frequent as those persists on death.

Teas are another form of consumable that offer 50 Speed buff, or close to 4% extra movement speed. Pick whichever is the cheapest at any given time from the list below:

• Sanguithorn Tea
• Azeroot Tea
• Argentleaf Tea

Use Thalassian Phoenix Oil as weapon oil.

Void-Touched Augment Rune provide around 1% dps increase and should be evaluated during progress, especially when close to pivotal kills.