Affliction Warlock 8.3

[Guest Dashpops]

Is the Mythic+ section going to be properly updated? Currently the title reads "Affliction Warlock DPS Mythic+ Tips (BfA 8.0.1)" but all the information is outdated and from 7.3.5.

[Guest Dashpops]

1 hour ago, Furty said:

It will not be updated until Battle for Azeroth, owing to it being an enormous amount of time and effort.

Perfectly understandable, but that part of the guide should lis 7.3.5 at the top imo

[Guest PanDoom]

I was reading the discussion over witch talent is better for raid fights, phantom syngularity or vile taint, and i am thinking: am i missing something ?
Espesialy for 1 target boss fights, isn't this just a REALY easy math problem ?

I would solve it like this:
Vile taint uses a soul shard and has the same cast time as unstable affliction so we can calculate the damage we get by casting one vile taint like this

Vile taint damage - Unstable affliction damage = netto damage gain by casting vile taint

Vile taint has a 20 second cooldown. knowing that we can calculate the DPS

Damage gain by casting vile taint / 20 = nett vile taint DPS

In short   (VT-UA)/20=nVT DPS
 

Calculating phantom syngularity is even easyer

phantom syngularity damage - 3/4shadowbolt = nett phantom syngularity    (phantom syngularity costs a global cooldown so we miss out on casting time for shadwobolt)

phantom syngularity has a cooldown of 45 sec so we can figure out the DPS

nett phantom syngularity/45 = nett phantom syngularity DPS

 

Am i missing something ? i am not yet level 60.

(sorry for my English, i am realy bad at languange)

[Guest Spunk]

I'd like to add to the movement section, as I always do when teaching a new player, that instant abilities are free passes to move. Deathbolt, Agony, and Corruption in this case give a lot of time to reposition without costing GCDs.

[Valks 2,407]

8 hours ago, Guest Spunk said:

I'd like to add to the movement section, as I always do when teaching a new player, that instant abilities are free passes to move. Deathbolt, Agony, and Corruption in this case give a lot of time to reposition without costing GCDs.

I've let Furty know, thanks!

[Guest Nollfakultet]

Just want to add that Inevitable Demise works with Drain Soul ( Yes even the 100% damage increase after 20% health )

[Guest rince]

I´m trying to find info if the azerite traits stack and if they do, do they merge into one powerful buff or multiple buffs of te same type?

For example if you have three pcs of gear with the wracking brilliance trait, does this mean that every second shard you´ll get 3xINT boost as three seperate buffs? 

And do they always trigger on the same tick of agony or could it be that they are randomly triggered depending on if agony is spread to multiple targets or a single target?

[Guest rince]

9 hours ago, Guest rince said:

I´m trying to find info if the azerite traits stack and if they do, do they merge into one powerful buff or multiple buffs of te same type?

For example if you have three pcs of gear with the wracking brilliance trait, does this mean that every second shard you´ll get 3xINT boost as three seperate buffs? 

And do they always trigger on the same tick of agony or could it be that they are randomly triggered depending on if agony is spread to multiple targets or a single target?

I can answer my own questions as i got multiple pices with the wracking brilliance trait.

They stack.

They trigger at the same time

They are one single buff with the summarized total int from all Three traits(in my case as i have Three gears with it.

[Guest KSkinner1989]

On ‎7‎/‎18‎/‎2018 at 4:17 PM, Furty said:

/cast [@cursor] Vile Taint

 

Thank you sooo much for this.... you are awesome!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest Khes]

Hi, you seem to be missing rankings for both affliction traits from the item Smartly Plumed Cap: Meticulous Scheming and Dreadful Calling. which is better?!

[Guest Signex]

I'm really enjoying the easy build, much better then the other. Seeing Deathbolt crit is so satisfying, my highest was 49k. ?

[Guest Oradrel]

After the opener (where you spend all unstable afflictions), you go back to spamming SB...do I always keep unstable affliction up (even if it means having no shards most of the fight?), or, build up to 5 (or whatever) amount of shards and use them all at once in my rotation?

I see it says to maintain 1 but I'm always shard starved.  Does the spec build rely on having only 1, maybe 2, shards every 6 seconds?

In other words, am I spanning SB just to get a single shard to refresh UA or is UA used in any other way (with other abilities) where I should save them up?

 

[Guest etio]

People don't realize that, the azerite armor buff that provides the stacking drain life damage on each corruption tick, also affects drain soul. That plus a target sub 20%, makes drain soul very attractive in my book.

[Guest locksalot]

On 8/21/2018 at 8:09 AM, Guest etio said:

People don't realize that, the azerite armor buff that provides the stacking drain life damage on each corruption tick, also affects drain soul. That plus a target sub 20%, makes drain soul very attractive in my book.

Is this working as intended or is this likely to be fixed/removed in a future patch?

[Guest Locker]

Great guide, but would it be possible to get an update to the trinket simulations after the Darkmoon trinket was greatly buffed. I can't figure out how to sim a trinket list like that myself, but the deck must be pulling ahead of a good deal of the dungeon trinkets post buff, no? ?

[Guest Carlson]

Why Torrent of Elements over a stat bonus? Am I reading this wrong? does it just make all of your spells do more

[Guest Razda]

On 7/18/2018 at 2:57 AM, Furty said:

"Using the Imp for its  Blood Pact aura and  Singe Magic ability is recommended, unless you require an interrupt or purge from the Felhunter."

there is a difference on dps imp vs felhunter? 

[Guest Khes]

thnx for the response, cheers. can't wait to check it out.

also, i did some of my own simming and if one DOES choose nightfall (for whatever reason), haste pulls slightly ahead of mastery. afaict, mastery pulls ahead for almost all other talent choices.

would love to see a confirm on this from someone else though (full spec: 1222112, 9% haste, 38% mastery, 6%Vers, 14% crit, no enchants at time of sim... was trying to decide which wep/ring enchants to buy)

have since respecced to the recommended build. 

Eggnog - Mug'Thol

[Guest Friktion]

Can I receive some clarification on Tier 2 talents? From Mythic perspective is Absolute Corruption still worth it over the other two options? Trying to find a nice balance between mythics, WQ, and getting ganked. ?

[Guest hello]

On 7/19/2018 at 11:12 AM, Guest Lignar said:

When is Haunt recommended to use?

Before you applied all your dots or after?

Haunt gives you a 10% damage increase to the target just like Unstable Affliction, it also has a duration that is long enough to apply all opening dots and darkglare

[Guest Hayduke]

Mastery is our highest stat priority and it scales with Drain Soul. Is there any situation (like soul sniping in mythics) that it would be better than deathbolt?

[Guest Larfa]

Isnt Voidwalker decent pet in dungeons due to its aoe dmg? Or is it just my feeling

[Pitri 0]

What is the best method to take care of dungeon trash groups?

Right now I start with Seed of Corruption to apply Absolute Corruption to all targets. Next step is to apply Agony to all targets. 

Is it a good way to take the trash down by spamming Seed until all my shards are used?

[Guest Cieson]

So what about the Leyshock's Grand Compilation, I think it works well.

[Guest azerite traits]

I'm recently new to using Icy Veins, so I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else. On the Azerite Traits and Armor section for Affliction Warlocks the single target list starts with Thunderous_Blast_3. Farther down that list there is a Thunderous_Blast_2. Does that mean having three pieces of azerite armor with Thunderous Blast selected in each versus two pieces? I notice under Destruction spec the names end in "340" so I'm guessing that's not the case and maybe it's just a name for the ability on two different ilvl pieces of armor. Thanks for any info provided.