Affliction Warlock 7.3

[Guest Sacrilegion]

Guide contradicts itself numerous times. Says to cast reap and drain after two casts of UA, another part of the guide says dump them all unless playing with contagion. 

Also says no matter your build, it is advisable to focus UA on one target, then the paragraph IMMEDIATELY after advises you to keep UA up on all targets.

[Valks 2,373]

23 minutes ago, Guest Sacrilegion said:

Guide contradicts itself numerous times. Says to cast reap and drain after two casts of UA, another part of the guide says dump them all unless playing with contagion. 

Also says no matter your build, it is advisable to focus UA on one target, then the paragraph IMMEDIATELY after advises you to keep UA up on all targets.

Can you please tell me the sections that you are seeing these errors under? (the numbers above them and which page)

It helps me to pass on to Furty exactly what needs to be changed. Thanks!

[Furty 51]

10 hours ago, Guest Sacrilegion said:

Guide contradicts itself numerous times. Says to cast reap and drain after two casts of UA, another part of the guide says dump them all unless playing with contagion. 

Don't really see how this is contradictory? 

[checkmate 4]

Hi,

I have the legendary belt and I feel it is the worst legy ever as it makes me feel very uncomfortable with my rotations.

Could you please expalin how the rotations should look like?

Thanks in advance.

 

Then I have another question. I have seen in numerous videos, that in ElvUI exists an option to show the soul shards above the nameplates. I liek this feature very much, but I don`t use ElvUI. Which addon provides this ?

[Guest Harook]

Is there any ETA on stat weights coming back for 7.1.5?  As someone that PvPs a lot I'd like to see which pieces will benefit me more even if they are 10 or 20 ilvls down.

Thank you!

[Guest Octavius]

On 2/21/2017 at 0:04 PM, Guest Harook said:

Is there any ETA on stat weights coming back for 7.1.5?  As someone that PvPs a lot I'd like to see which pieces will benefit me more even if they are 10 or 20 ilvls down.

Thank you!

Unless you mean World PvP, you should always use your highest ilevel gear when doing battlegrounds or arena, as all your stats are normalized, and then get a slight boost based on your ilevel.

[Guest Guest Hotlock]

Its my first time using the Pawn addon. Are the stat weights for Pawn reliable for affliction warlocks?

[Guest Harook]

21 hours ago, Guest Octavius said:

Unless you mean World PvP, you should always use your highest ilevel gear when doing battlegrounds or arena, as all your stats are normalized, and then get a slight boost based on your ilevel.

I'm not asking for PvP but PvE.  I want stat weights to see if I should use (for example) an 840 piece with mastery and crit or an 865 piece with mastery and versatility.  Depending on the weights of the stats either one of them could be superior.  (This is for PvE, not PvP, I know that PvP scales your gear off ilvl alone).

[Guest ActuallyRich]

In recommended addons, Enemy Grid should be there. It gives you the name plates of all engaged enemies in a nice easy to click grid. Way helpful for keeping dots up.

[Guest Jwashwa]

On 07/03/2017 at 7:39 PM, Guest ActuallyRich said:

In recommended addons, Enemy Grid should be there. It gives you the name plates of all engaged enemies in a nice easy to click grid. Way helpful for keeping dots up.

That was amazing back before Blizz put out a patch to stop us using it. You can still be shown all targets but they aren't clickable.

Also, I have found Bough of Corruption to be very powerful as aff.... when it procs

[Iose 0]

On 14/03/2017 at 5:59 AM, Guest Jwashwa said:

That was amazing back before Blizz put out a patch to stop us using it. You can still be shown all targets but they aren't clickable.

Have you thought of using mouseover macros? If i were to use a grid system to have enemy names in a raid frames like display, id have my dots macro'd to plan keybind being cast on target, but shift keybind casts on my mouseover

[Valks 2,373]

On 2/19/2017 at 9:24 AM, checkmate said:

Could you please expalin how the rotations should look like?

You would still use the same rotation, just ensure that UA falls off before reapplying it in step 6. The priorities will still be the same though.

[Valks 2,373]

On 2/24/2017 at 3:07 AM, Guest Guest Hotlock said:

Its my first time using the Pawn addon. Are the stat weights for Pawn reliable for affliction warlocks?

They'll never be completely accurate. You'll need to keep simming your character to find out your own ones.

[Valks 2,373]

On 2/24/2017 at 2:48 PM, Guest Harook said:

I'm not asking for PvP but PvE.  I want stat weights to see if I should use (for example) an 840 piece with mastery and crit or an 865 piece with mastery and versatility.  Depending on the weights of the stats either one of them could be superior.  (This is for PvE, not PvP, I know that PvP scales your gear off ilvl alone).

He was answering because in your first post you said PvP. Assuming it was a typo. 

For the most accurate stat weights, you can enable scaling and weights in SimCraft and use that to find the most accurate possible weights for you. It's always the best thing to do rather than relying on general weights.

[Valks 2,373]

On 3/7/2017 at 7:39 PM, Guest ActuallyRich said:

In recommended addons, Enemy Grid should be there. It gives you the name plates of all engaged enemies in a nice easy to click grid. Way helpful for keeping dots up.

Retrospectively, this would have been useful, but given the latest changes, it's no longer worth. Thanks for helping to contribute though!

[Valks 2,373]

On 3/13/2017 at 6:59 PM, Guest Jwashwa said:

Also, I have found Bough of Corruption to be very powerful as aff.... when it procs

This is often the issue. The current proc rate is really unreliable I find. Do you have any logs of you using it? It'd be interesting to see other people's proc numbers!

[Valks 2,373]

1 hour ago, Iose said:

Have you thought of using mouseover macros? If i were to use a grid system to have enemy names in a raid frames like display, id have my dots macro'd to plan keybind being cast on target, but shift keybind casts on my mouseover

Definitely a good suggestion. I use them for applying my DoTs while healing as druid, since it just makes it so much easier.

[Arkpit 101]

I almost feel like there needs to be an updated rotation for a grasp single target build? It can't be right that the 70% increase to DoT dmg should be so far down the list or?

I'm using grasp+contagion and I struggle to decide what to keep throwing instead of grasp but I know I lose 70% DoT boost so I don't really want to ^^

So I guess in other words the question would be: If you are using the grasp talent, should you not prioritze uptiume on Drain soul more?

[Guest Zythoxic]

Can you please update the Sin'Dorei Spite Legendary? It's not working for Affliction anymore... I just got it and it only works for Demonology. I had my loot spec on Demo just for that one Legendary cause pretty much all the other Affliction Legendaries are... simply boring. I'm gonna cry... Or thinking about switching spec.

[Guest Zythoxic]

On 20.3.2017 at 3:33 PM, Guest Zythoxic said:

Can you please update the Sin'Dorei Spite Legendary? It's not working for Affliction anymore... I just got it and it only works for Demonology. I had my loot spec on Demo just for that one Legendary cause pretty much all the other Affliction Legendaries are... simply boring. I'm gonna cry... Or thinking about switching spec.

Sorry forget what i said. Might have f**ked it up somehow. It DOES work.

[Valks 2,373]

On 3/20/2017 at 0:55 PM, Arkpit said:

So I guess in other words the question would be: If you are using the grasp talent, should you not prioritze uptiume on Drain soul more?

Honestly, I don't think so. Despite the boost in damage from channeling Drain Soul, it's more important to prioritise actually placing all the DoTs on the enemy prior to having a shorter DS channel, rather than interrupting your DoT casting to try and grant the fewer DoTs the damage boost.

[Valks 2,373]

On 3/21/2017 at 4:54 PM, Guest Zythoxic said:

Sorry forget what i said. Might have f**ked it up somehow. It DOES work.

Glad to see you resolved it :P

[Valks 2,373]

We are currently in the process of updating our guides in preparation for the release of 7.2 - please understand that we will not be answering questions in this section about "What is better for 7.2?" prior to the patch release, since all the information will be available when the patch goes live. Please be patient and thanks for waiting!

[Guest Someone123]

11 hours ago, Blainie said:

We are currently in the process of updating our guides in preparation for the release of 7.2 - please understand that we will not be answering questions in this section about "What is better for 7.2?" prior to the patch release, since all the information will be available when the patch goes live. Please be patient and thanks for waiting!

Guide says no changes needed for Patch 7.2 when it comes to Legendarys/BiS. But there was a change on  Sacrolash's Dark Strike which now also increases the damage of Corruption by 15 %. I assume its one of the best legendarys for affliction now.

[Valks 2,373]

6 minutes ago, Guest Someone123 said:

I assume its one of the best legendarys for affliction now.

Will make sure to get this passed on and updated! Was most likely just an error while transferring information across for the update. Sorry and thanks for letting me know!