Affliction Warlock PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / 10.0.7)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as an Affliction Warlock and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Affliction Warlock PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Affliction Warlocks
Talent Build for Affliction Warlocks in PvP
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 increasing overall sustained damage from your DoT effects.
- 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 high sustained damage from your DoT effects as well as good single target damage.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 16 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 30 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 02 Mar. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands 9.2.
- 17 Nov. 2021: Updated for Shadowlands 9.1.5.
- 06 Jul. 2021: Updated for Shadowlands 9.1.
- 30 Mar. 2021: Updated for Shadowlands 9.0.5.
- 08 Jan. 2021: Updated for Shadowlands Season 1.
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
PvP Talents for Affliction Warlocks
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.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Precognition causes you to gain 15% haste and 5 seconds of immunity
to Crowd Control when an interrupt lands on you without locking you out. This
talent rewards you for juking an interrupt in order to dish out more damage.
Rapid Contagion gives you on-demand burst damage and has a very short
cooldown. This should be used in every game when you have your DoTs on multiple
targets.
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.
Situational PvP Talents
Nether Ward surrounds the caster with a shield that lasts 3 sec,
reflecting all harmful spells cast on you. This is a strong talent against
classes with magical spells. This should be considered versus teams with casters on
it.
Changelog
This guide is written and maintained by Chanimal, BlizzCon Champion Warlock with Rank 1 titles since 2011, competing in AWC. He streams Warlock PvP daily on Twitch, with highlights on YouTube.
- World Boss Bazual Available During the Week of March 22nd
- Baine Cutscene in Patch 10.0.7
- Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7 Hotfixes: March 21st
- Orc and Human Heritage Armor Cutscenes
- Primordial Stones in PvP
- Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7 Known Issues
- Everything You Need to Know About Patch 10.0.7
- Class Guides Updated for Patch 10.0.7 Launch