Affliction Warlock Leveling Guide From 1 to 80 for WotLK Classic
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Affliction Warlock leveling guide for WoW Wrath of the Lich King Classic.
For more general leveling information, please refer to our Warlock leveling guide. We also have a Demonology Warlock leveling guide and a Destruction Warlock leveling guide.
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Leveling Talent Tree and Build for Affliction Warlock
Leveling Rotation
Leveling as Affliction is focused heavily on your
DoTs and ensuring that you get them up on enemies as soon as possible. Depending
on the level of gear you have, it may be that using Corruption and
Curse of Agony is enough, but as enemies start to outlevel your gear, you
may find that you have to start using
Unstable Affliction or, for mini-bosses,
Haunt.
AoE Leveling Rotation as Affliction
Affliction benefits from excellent AoE depending on the situation at hand. If
you have multiple enemies, but under 4 enemies at once, you should simply multi-dot
them, applying your Corruption and
Unstable Affliction.
Once you start facing more enemies, especially when stacked, you can start using
Seed of Corruption, assuming you are able to trigger it.
Pets for Leveling as Affliction
Your pet choice will depend on the ones available to you until you unlock your Felhunter. For the most part, the Felhunter is the strongest pet to use for leveling as Affliction, but you will have to use the Imp until you get the Voidwalker and, in turn, the Voidwalker until you get the Felhunter.
List of Trainer Skills to Buy
It is important to buy all abilities as you level as they are cheap and Warlocks have quite a few abilities that are extremely powerful in certain situations.
Warlock Macros and Addons
Setting up an user interface and macros early on you will greatly improve the quality of your leveling experience. Check out the Warlock Macros and Addons guides in the links below for the full list.
How to Continue to Improve Your Affliction Warlock at Level 80
Once you achieve Level 80, we suggest checking out our Affliction Warlock Guide, which goes more in detail of how to play your Level 80 Warlock.
Changelog
- 26 Sep. 2022: Page added.
This guide has been written by Valks and reviewed 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.
- Wrath Classic Patch 3.4.1 Notes
- Wrath Classic Phase 2 Launching on January 17th
- Naxxramas Achievement Rewards to Remain Available Throughout Wrath Classic
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- Summon Gargoyle Changes on the Wrath Classic PTR
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- No Changes Planned for Ulduar Tier Sets Beyond 6 Item Level Bump
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