WotLK Classic Affliction Warlock Stat Priority
On this page, you will find out the optimal PvE stat priority for your Affliction Warlock in WotLK Classic. We first present the stat priority, before delving into more complex explanations.
Stat Priority for Affliction Warlocks
- Hit Rating (to cap);
- Spell Power;
- Haste
- Critical Strike Rating;
- Spirit
- Intellect.
Stats Explained for Affliction Warlocks
Hit Rating
Hit Rating is massively important for all Warlock specs as it increases your chance to hit with your spells, up until it caps. In wrath you no longer have the innate 1% chance to miss, so if you are hit capped, you will never ever miss a spell. Your first goal as a lock is to make sure that you are Hit-capped.
The Hit cap is 17%, which sounds like a lot, but you get a little bit of help. You get 3% hit from a
Balance Druid's Improved Faerie Fire OR
Misery from a Shadow Priest
Your 25-mans should pretty much always have either a Boomkin or a Shadow Priest in your raid, so this
means you now need 14% hit. This becomes much more achievable on your gear if you want. However you can
put points into
Suppression to lower the hit even more. Each point is 1%, so if you put 3 points
into Suppression, you will only need 11% hit; if you are Alliance with a Draenei in
your party, you get an additional 1% Hit Rating from their racial, but only if they are in
your party. This means that if you are Horde, you need 11%
and if you are Alliance, you need 10%.
If there happens to be a time when you do need Hit, it is suggested that you put a point or two into
Suppression, rather than use Hit gems as you can get more value out of better gems, while allowing
Suppression to cover what you’re missing. Unless you need less than 1%, then just use a gem if you
want.
Spell Power
Spell Power increases the damage of all offensive spells that the Warlock casts. Affliction Warlocks love Spell Power as it largely increases how much damage you do. You want Spell Power right after Hit.
Haste
Haste is the next stat you want as Affliction. Haste reduces the cast time of all your spells. This is
huge for Affliction since the faster the casts, the more damage you do. Plus it makes our Drain Soul
do insane damage and your
Corruption tick faster due to
Glyph of Quick Decay.
Spirit
Spirit is the next stat and its really nice because Fel Armor and
Glyph of Life Tap now converts
30% of your Spirit into Spell Power.
Critical Strike Chance
Critical Strike Chance gives your spells a chance to critically strike for more
damage, which also couples with Ruin for bigger crits.
Changelog
- 18 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Phase 2 release ahead of Ulduar raid release.
- 19 Oct. 2022: General guide updates.
- 25 Sep. 2022: Page added.
This guide has been written by Crix, Co-Admin of the Warlock Discord and long time Warlock player. He hass cleared all TBC Content as a Warlock, as well as makes content on YouTube for Warlocks and streams Warlock gameplay daily over at Twitch.
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