Affliction Warlock DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Affliction Warlock in World of Warcraft Midnight (12.0.1).
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Affliction Warlock Gear and Best in Slot.
Gearing a Affliction Warlock
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.
BiS Gear for Affliction Warlock
Pre-Season BiS for Affliction Warlock
The following list contains a tentative Best in Slot Gear for Affliction Warlock before Season 1 launch and includes gear from Normal Midnight Dungeons, Delves, Crafting, or other Open World content.
Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. You can use the list below as a guideline for what an endgame set of gear looks like.
| Slot | Item | Source/Note |
|---|---|---|
| Head |  Overseer's Diadem |
Voidscar Arena |
| Neck |  Pendant of Malefic Fury |
Murder Row |
| Shoulder |  Nysarra's Mantle |
Nexus-Point Xenas |
| Cloak |  Bloodthorn Burnous |
The Blinding Vale |
| Chest |  Summoner's Searing Shirt |
Murder Row |
| Wrists |  Nibbling Armbands |
Murder Row |
| Hands |  Counterfeit Clutches |
Murder Row |
| Belt |  Lightblossom Cinch |
The Blinding Vale |
| Legs |  Forest Dream Leg-guards |
Den of Nalorakk |
| Feet |  Tempestuous Sandals |
Murder Row |
| Ring #1 |  Omission of Light |
Nexus-Point Xenas |
| Ring #2 |  Occlusion of Void |
Nexus-Point Xenas |
| Trinket #1 |  Vessel of Tortured Souls |
Maisara Caverns |
| Trinket #2 |  Lightspire Core |
The Blinding Vale |
| Weapon |  Doompetal (1H) |
The Blinding Vale |
| Off-Hand |  Luminescent Sprout (OH) |
The Blinding Vale |
Best Trinkets for Affliction Warlock in Midnight Pre-Season
Raiding Trinket Tier List for Affliction Warlock
This Trinket Tier List is biased towards single-target, as this tends to be the more relevant aspect of Raiding. In the case of Trinkets performing similarly in single-target, the option with AoE/Multitarget scaling will be ranked higher.
A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.
Any trinket not shown on this list is generally considered worse than all other trinkets available on this list.
| Tier | Trinkets |
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Crafted Gear & Embellishments
Due the aforementioned warning and the fact that the highest crafts will not be available until the season start, I recommend to hold onto crafting items for the time being.
Evaluating Upgrades
The easiest and most sensible way to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here, you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best. See below for a guide on how to sim yourself.
Changelog
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight Release.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
- 24 Jun. 2025: Updated DISC socket recommendation following tuning.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.7 and DISC.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.5.
- 04 Apr. 2025: Updated trinket recommendations.
- 04 Mar. 2025: Updated BiS lists and trinket ranking.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7. and Cyrce's Circlet.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Added BiS lists for Season 1, updated trinket section.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Added Pre-Season BiS list section.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4 launch.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated trinket section for Patch 10.2.5.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Embellishment recommendations updated after Undulating Sporecloak has been annihilated.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated Gear recommendations for Patch 10.2 and Season 3.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reformat of the page with BiS tables and section updates.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- 24 Mar. 2023: Updated Onyx Annulet section to account for live hotfixes.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added Patch 10.0.7 new ring section. .
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 13 Dec. 2022: Updated Embellishment recommendations.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Season 1 launch.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Motoko, Warlock main since The Burning Crusade, co-admin in the Warlock Discord, and theorycrafter and contributor for LockOneStopShop.
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