Affliction Warlock DPS Easy Mode — Midnight Season 1

This build is optimized for ease of use while offering a setup that works in any situation with no adjustments required, including Raid, Mythic+, and even Delves. This is not the optimal choice in either single target or multi-target in terms of output, but serves as a build that can help players become familiar with the specialization at its core before moving on to more specialized builds from our Talents page.

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1. Maintain the Agony DoT.
2. Maintain the Corruption DoT.
3. Cast Haunt on cooldown.
4. Cast Unstable Affliction when you are at 5 Soul Shards (to avoid wasting Shards).
5. Cast Dark Harvest on cooldown.
6. Cast Drain Soul as a filler.

When at least 2 targets are stacked together, you should always use Seed of Corruption as the main shard spender and with Nightfall procs. Keep Agony applied to all targets (up to 5) for Soul Shard generation and damage.

Try to react to Shard Instability procs so you can leverage free Unstable Afflictions.

Remember to refresh Agony within its pandemic window to be as efficient as possible.

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.

Shadow of Nathreza at any rank simply increase Haunt damage both directly and indirectly and requires no additional thoughts as it is already one of the most valuable spells that should be casted on cooldown.

As customary for the first tier of an expansion, the set bonuses are passive and thus do not affect the gameplay.

The Combat Assistant is comprised of two main features:

• Assisted Highlight: Displays the next spell to be queued, in a adequately accurate rotation single target and limited capabilities in multitarget, best used to familiarize with the flow and cadence of the spec.
• Single Button Assistant: Enables use of a single input for multiple skills in the sequence prompted by the Assisted Highlight, at the expense of a longer base global cooldown (which accounts for an additional 5% to 10% dps loss).

It is worth pointing out that these tools are accessibility features first and foremost, and should not be considered a direct replacement to learn a spec nor the logic behind it.

The areas where the Combat Assistant struggle the most for Affliction Warlock are:

• DoT uptime, since there is no supported logic for the Pandemic mechanic, especially aggravating in multitarget
• Multi-target in general, due how it considers all targets stacked regardless of the situation
• Cooldown usage, since it is either missing, or there is no preparation entering a given cooldown

• Cooldown alignment has to be done manually, especially considering racials, potions, and on-use equipment
• DoTs should be refreshed within Pandemic range, as following the Combat Assistant blindly will result in much lower uptime
• In situations with multiple targets far away, consider manually applying Corruption or Wither instead of using Seed of Corruption when suggested
• In general, try to maximize the amount of time spent casting, especially when using the Single Button Assistant, as downtime is one of the improvement areas at any stage of the game