Affliction Warlock DPS Easy Mode — The War Within (11.1.7)

These choices are optimized for ease of use while offering a setup that works in any situation with no adjustments required. As a reminder, this is not the optimal choice in either single target or multitarget in terms of output but one that can help players become familiar with the specialisation at its core.

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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, as its damage is non-trivial at low target count.

Remember to refresh Agony and Unstable Affliction within their pandemic windows to benefit from Volatile Agony and Perpetual Unstability respectively.

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.

Introduced in Patch 11.1.7 the Combat Assistant is at the time of writing comprised of two main features:

• Assisted Highlight, which displays the next spell to be queued, in a adequately accurate rotation single target and limited capabilities in multitarget, best used to familiarise with the flow/cadence of the spec;
• Single Button Assistant enabling to use a single input to use 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, and 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;
• Multitarget 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 target not close consider manually apply Corruption or Wither instead of using Seed of Corruption when suggested;
• In general try to maximise 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.