Affliction Warlock DPS Easy Mode — Dragonflight 10.2

This section is intended for players who are new to the game or class, have no intentions of raiding Mythic difficulty or want a more straightforward way to play their specialization without being overwhelmed by the numerous priorities and active abilities that need to be taken into consideration for optimal play.

Affliction is a specialization that revolves around maintaining damage over time effects on your active targets. While it may not have many buttons, it requires careful attention to cooldowns and uptimes, with the level of complexity increasing with the number of targets. Despite that, it is a good specialization for all levels of players, and you can streamline it to a simple set of priorities.

For newcomers, it is advisable to browse the Spell Summary page first to learn more about the abilities available and to familiarise yourself with them.

These Talent recommendations are optimized for ease of use. Suppose a talent requires significant optimization to provide DPS gains. In that case, we will instead recommend a competitive talent that requires less knowledge to make use of. See the Talents page for a full and objective evaluation of the Talent tree. These talents aim to present a strong build that has very little punishment for unfamiliarity or mistakes.

To import the build directly ingame, click on the export button in the top-right of the calculator

If you are looking to maximize your output as Affliction Warlock instead of simplicity and ease of use, you can find more in-depth analysis and rationale on our talent page as follows:

Currently, you will want to prioritize secondary stats as follows:

1. Mastery ≅ Haste;
2. Critical Strike;
3. Versatility.

In general, Intellect is more critical than secondaries, about 2 if not 3 times better, depending on the secondary stat.

While stats priority is a general guideline, there might be situations where the lists differ. If you are interested in a detailed explanation of the stats and their implications, check out the page below.

1. Maintain the Agony DoT.
2. Maintain the Unstable Affliction DoT.
3. Maintain the Corruption DoT.
4. Cast Malefic Rapture if you are at 5 Soul Shards (to avoid wasting Shards).
5. Cast Soul Rot on cooldown.
6. Cast Vile Taint when available.
7. Cast Drain Soul as a filler.

When at least 3 targets are stacked together, you should always use your Seed of Corruption to apply and maintain Corruption. Keep Agony applied to all targets (up to 5) for Soul Shard generation and damage. Cast Vile Taint on cooldown for damage and apply up to 8 Agony.

Try always to have Unstable Affliction on one target, so it benefits from Doom Blossom. Remember that the more Seed of Corruption explosions affect that target, the more value will be extracted from Doom Blossom.

If targets are dying use Drain Soul to get an easy shard off them.

For a more comprehensive explanation of the priority list, including openers, check out the rotation page.