Affliction Warlock PvP Talents and Builds (Season 4)

This is the standard build for Affliction Warlocks in PvP, which can be used as a general setup.

• This build takes several talents which increase the damage dealt by Drain Soul while also taking talents that synergize and buff your Drain Life.
• The Warlock talent tree has plenty of defensive talents, such as Dark Pact, which helps make Warlocks tankier than they have been in the past.
• On the Affliction tree, Tormented Crescendo allows for instant Malefic Rapture casts to have great sustained damage from your DoT effects as well as good single-target damage.
• Additionally, Dark Harvest allows you to cast Soul Rot to utilise Drain Life's healing for additional survivability.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. The two mandatory choices are the most essential, with the third being switched out depending on the matchup.

Rot and Decay causes your Shadow Bolt, Drain Life and Drain Soul abilities to extend the duration of your DoTs on the target. This talent helps to reduce the globals required to maintain your DoT effects.

Jinx causes your curse abilities to cost a Soul Shard, but also applies Corruption and Agony. This talent is mandatory to help lower the amount of globals you need to maintain your DoT effects.

Oblivion is a new talent in Patch 10.1.5, which deals a massive amount of damage over 3 seconds, depending on how many DoTs you have up. This is a good single-target burst talent that can be taken.

Rampant Afflictions is another mandatory PvP talent. This makes it so Unstable Affliction can be used on up to 3 targets. Because your win condition will be to rot the enemy team with your AoE pressure, this is a must-have talent to play. For 2v2, this can be skipped depending on the matchup.

Impish Instincts reduces the cooldown of your Demonic Circle: Teleport by 3 seconds when you take Physical damage with an internal cooldown of 5 seconds. This in synergy with Abyss Walker makes this PvP talent a very good pick against melee teams who target you.