Mists of Pandaria Classic Affliction Warlock Rotation and Cooldowns

This page contains all relevant information needed for Affliction Warlock before the release of Mists of Pandaria Classic. We will be updating this with all the latest information as soon as more is discovered, so make sure to check back.

Affliction Warlocks bring great single-target and AoE damage to the raid, while having the highest multi-target damage out of any classes in the game thanks to Soul Swap. Affliction comes With a strong Demon, Observer and a plethora of Damage over Time - DoT - spells to rot all your enemies away. Affliction is based largely around it's hard hitting DoT's and it's powerful execute damage with Drain Soul.

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As a Affliction Warlock, Agony, Unstable Affliction and Corruption are your DoTs and they are extremely important. Affliction revolves around applying these Damage over Time spells and then buffing them up with Haunt and Malefic Grasp. MoP Classic changed the way DoT's work thanks to the Talent Pandemic. When you refresh your DoT's, the duration remaining on the previous effect is added to this new one, up to a maximum of 50%. This means that if a DoT duration of 20 seconds and you refresh it when there are 10 seconds remaining, the new duration will be 30 seconds.

Your DoTs benefit from your stats at the time you casted the DoT. This means that Agony, Unstable Affliction and Corruption will take into account your stats at the exact time you cast Immolate, and it will keep that Haste, or Spell Power buff even after you lose the buffs yourself.

The job of an Affliction Warlock is pretty straight forward. You want to keep Haunt on the target at all times, keep your DoTs, Corruption, Unstable Affliction and Agony on the target 100% of the time and fill with Malefic Grasp while waiting to refresh your DoTs. Once you're in execute range, you replace that Malefic Grasp and instead use Drain Soul to take advantage of the massive damage increase that Drain Soul has when the target is at or below 20% Health.

1. (Prepull) Make sure your Demon is out.
2. (Prepull) Pre-Pop a Potion of the Jade Serpent.
3. (Prepull) Precast Haunt if you can, so that it lands on the boss right when the pull timer hits zero seconds. Also make sure you Demon attacking.
4. Cast Curse of the Elements and keep this up full time if no other member is putting up the debuff. Rogues will naturally apply this debuff. Hunters also apply this debuff, but only using .
5. Pop your cooldowns like Dark Soul: Instability, Grimoire of Service, Blood Fury, Blood Fury, Trinkets and whatever else you have.
6. Cast Soulburn
7. Cast Soul Swap Thanks to Soulburn, this will apply Agony, Corruption and Unstable Affliction to the target.
8. Cast Summon Doomguard/ Summon Terrorguard right before your Raid either Bloodlusts, Heroisms or Time Warps, since it will also be Lusted. Summon Doomguard dynamically updates to your stats, so no need to worry about snapshotting spell power.
9. Cast Malefic Grasp is your main filler, but also does great damage and helps proc your trinkets.
10. Keep Agony, Corruption and Unstable Affliction on the target as close to 100% uptime as you can. Use Soulburn and Soul Swap to reapply if you can and try to refresh during big procs and damage buff.

1. Cast Soulburn and then Soul Swap to apply Agony, Corruption and Unstable Affliction to a target.
2. Cast Soul Swap repeatedly to spread those three DoT's to enemies.
3. Cast Seed of Corruption on the main target.
4. Make sure to throw explosives if you're Engineering for extra damage.