Affliction Warlock PvP Guide (Dragonflight 10.2)

Affliction Warlocks struggle against melee. However, they perform well into casters and have the potential to do incredible amounts of spread damage. If left alone for a few seconds, they can easily apply their DoTs to multiple targets and begin melting entire teams simultaneously. If an Affliction Warlock is being focused by enemies, it is difficult to deal damage. However, abilities like Soul Swap help to alleviate this problem.

Affliction Warlocks are being buffed in Patch 10.2, mainly with increases to their main damage-dealing abilities Corruption, Agony and Unstable Affliction. There are also a few talent changes.

• A talent revamp, with Grand Warlock's Design reducing Summon Darkglare cooldown by a flat 30 seconds.
• Jinx, a new PvP talent. Casting any Curse now also applies Corruption and Agony, but now costs 1 Soul Shard.
• Corruption damage increased by 25%.
• Agony damage increased by 40%.
• Unstable Affliction damage increased by 40%.
• Rampant Afflictions now reduces damage of Unstable Affliction by 50%.
• Oblivion Soul Shard cost reduced to 2 from 3.
• Rapid Contagion has been removed.
• Soul-Eater's Gluttony now reduces Soul Rot cooldown by a flat 15/30 seconds.
• Demon Skin grants an additional 45/90% armor increase.

Strengths

• Great spread damage
• Good against teams with low self-healing or no hybrids

Weaknesses

• Struggle to cast against teams with many interrupts
• Lack of reliable crowd control
• Only one casting school