Affliction Warlock DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.0.2)

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Affliction Warlock. This section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

Due to the simplicity of determining upgrades with a simulation in the current game era, we recommend using the popular Raidbots tool to decide which pieces of gear offer the most potential for your character. The main reason why this is a considerable advantage is due to the vast number of variables that differ from character to character, such as Stat Quotients and Scale Factors.

The Top Gear function can be handy, as it allows you to compare multiple items and item types to find the best combination of upgrades.

Learning to use the tools available will allow you to reach the most accurate conclusions with the least effort. It is highly recommended that you use these tools, which will serve you well when evaluating items.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses you should spend your Bonus Rolls on. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon, and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from bonus rolling on it. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

The following list is a reference setup coming for Heroic Dungeons and should provide a good starting point from where to tackle Season 1 PvE Endgame activities.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Intertwiner's Shadowcowl	City of Threads
Neck	Strapped Rescue-Keg	Cinderbrew Meadery
Shoulder	Moneymaking Businessmantle	Cinderbrew Meadery
Cloak	Chef Chewie's Towel	Cinderbrew Meadery
Chest	Arachnofrost Vest	City of Threads
Wrists	Gleamwax Shackles	Darkflame Cleft
Gloves	King's Malicious Clutches	Darkflame Cleft
Belt	Honorbound Retainer's Sash	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Legs	Archaic Venomancer's Footwraps	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Boots	Cloudstrider Soles	The Rookery
Ring #1	85-Year Tenure Ring	Cinderbrew Meadery
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring	The Dawnbreaker
Main-hand + Off-hand	Melodious Iron Songspire	The Stonevault
Trinket 1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket 2	Carved Blazikon Wax	Darkflame Cleft

DISCLAIMER: At the time of writing, Embellishments are not tuned, with Darkmoon options being substantially overtuned, especially Darkmoon Sigil: Vivacity. As such, this section will not offer a recommendation until further hotfixes/updates.

DISCLAIMER: sims are currently being developed. Therefore, take the following charts with a grain of salt.