Affliction Warlock PvP Guide — Midnight Season 1

Affliction Warlocks have a decent toolkit in terms of utility. Fear is the main CC that Warlocks can use to set up a CC chain or peel for themselves. In addition, Mortal Coil can now be taken in addition to either Howl of Terror or Shadowfury. Curses such as Curse of Exhaustion and Curse of Tongues are also helpful as a form of control to snare enemies or slow their casting down.

Affliction Warlock has good mobility for a caster in Midnight. However, melee in Midnight typically have significantly more mobility in comparison. Demonic Circle: Teleport in conjunction with Soulburn and the PvP talent Impish Instincts synergize well together. In addition, the new talent Frequent Traveler allows for two uses of the Demonic Gateway before incurring a cooldown.

Affliction Warlocks have a hard time surviving in the arena, especially against melee classes. Although mobility is decent, most melee classes have significantly more mobility, and therefore, uptime when attacking an Affliction Warlock. Cooldowns such as Dark Pact and Healthstone are helpful to survive, however, when melees have uptime on an Affliction Warlock, it is very difficult for healers to keep them healthy.

Affliction Warlock is not the easiest spec to learn in Midnight. Because of the weakness in terms of survivability and need to chain cast in order to deal damage, you will need to fully utilize your toolkit in order to be effective. With the new addon restrictions, tracking interrupts is no longer possible.