Affliction Warlock DPS Guide — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Listed below is a breakdown of the changes separated in sections to facilitate the read.

• Hero Talents received minor baseline changes and an addition of a fourth column, inspired from TWW Season 3 set bonuses.
  
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  2.1.1.

  Hellcaller

  • Seeds of Their Demise was changed to support Shard Instability talent;
  • New Talent: Through the Felvine increase the damage of baseline shard spenders, doubled during Malevolence;
  • New Talent: Devil Fruit Wither has a chance to grant Malevolence;
  • New Talent: Alzzin's Iniquity Malevolence grants additional Haste and casting the ability adds more Wither stacks.

  
  

  2.1.2.

  Soul Harvester

  • Shadow of Death now triggers from Dark Harvest since Soul Rot has been deprecated;
  • New Talent: Manifested Avarice each Succulent Soul consumed has a chance to trigger Soul Swipe for additional damage on all targets within 10 yards;
  • New Talent: Shared Vessel increase Mastery by a percentage which is doubled when Demonic Soul triggers;
  • New Talent: Eternal Hunger increases duration and damage of Manifested Avarice.
• Substantial changes happened to core/rotational Affliction Warlock spells.
  
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  • Unstable Affliction is the baseline single target shard spender;
  • Malefic Rapture has been removed;
  • Soul Rot, Vile Taint and Phantom Singularity have been removed as a consequence;
  • Dark Harvest is a new 1 minute cooldown that deals damage on every target affected by at least 1 baseline DoT effect;
  • Agony now has a maximum of 6 stacks and with Sudden Onset the ramp time has been substantially lowered;
  • to apply more than 1 Agony per cast Shared Agony has been introduced;
  • Summon Darkglare is a single target spell baseline that function as a damage amplification, and now has supporting talents such as Malefic Rapture and Nether Plating;
  • Seed of Corruption is the main AoE shard spender and has received supporting talents to increase its output in the likes of Sow the Seeds, Patient Zero and Nocturnal Yield;
  • Death's Embrace damage bonus has been quadrupled.
• Few noteworthy changes also happened to Warlockutility spells.
  
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  • Curse of Tongues and Curse of Exhaustion are now separate talents;
  • Foul Mouth has been added, allowing every curse to also affect enemies around 10 yards of the main target;
  • Blights were introduced, offering a more powerful version of Curses, with a shorter duration and cooldown associated;
  • Howl of Terror is now a choice node with Shadowfury and has a new supporting talent in Oppressive Darkness, reducing its cooldown and affe ting up to 10 targets
  • Health Funnel has been removed and its healing has been added to Drain Life with Infernal Beneficiary