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Affliction Warlock: Rotation

Client build 1.60.1.70425 · updated

The Affliction priorities, top to bottom: use the first one that applies.

Level 40–60 with Wrack (projected)

  1. Demonic Sacrifice the Imp, for +15% Shadow damage for 2 hours (60 build's 11 Demonology points). Unconfirmed
  2. Amplify Curse then Bane of Agony: +50% on the Bane. Unconfirmed
  3. Corruption kept up.
  4. Bane of Agony kept up; from 60, Bane of Doom instead on bosses that live past a minute.
  5. Siphon Life kept up.
  6. Shadow Bolt on Nightfall procs.
  7. Wrack once your DoTs will keep ticking through its 6 seconds: it adds 10% to them. Wowtbc uses it as the filler. Unconfirmed
  8. Drain Life or Shadow Bolt as filler when Wrack isn't worth it; Drain Soul below 25% for shards.

Packs and AoE

  1. Corruption on every mob in the pack, Voidwalker holding them.
  2. Bane of Agony on the mobs that will live longest.
  3. Rain of Fire on a tight pack.
  4. Hellfire from 30, standing in the pack. It burns you too, and draws a lot of threat.
  5. Howl of Terror from 40, when the pack turns on you.

Cooldowns and emergencies

  • Death Coil from 42: a 3-second horror and a heal for the damage done.
  • Fear on a second mob while the Voidwalker holds the first. 20 yards only.
  • Amplify Curse 3-minute cooldown: +50% on the next Bane of Agony or Curse of Weakness.
  • Create Healthstone keep one; it doesn't share the potion cooldown.
  • Shadow Ward from 32, against Shadow casters.

While leveling

  1. Summon Voidwalker out and attacking first, on Defensive. Let it build threat for a second before your first DoT.
  2. Curse of the Elements on elites and long fights (Recklessness for physical partners). Your damage DoT is a Bane, so this costs you nothing.
  3. Corruption instant with Improved Corruption 5/5.
  4. Bane of Agony if the target will live long enough; it does most of its damage late.
  5. Siphon Life from 30, on targets that live 20 seconds or more.
  6. Shadow Bolt when Nightfall makes it instant.
  7. Drain Life when you need health; otherwise wand.
  8. Drain Soul as the finisher on anything worth a shard. Don't cast anything else until it ends.
  9. Life Tap between pulls, or freely with a healer beside you.

Macros

Macros are untested in the Forever client unless a label says otherwise.

Corruption, Bane of Agony, Siphon Life, Wrack
#showtooltip
/petattack [harm,nodead]
/castsequence reset=target Corruption, Bane of Agony, Siphon Life, Wrack

Sends the demon and steps through your DoTs, then Wrack. Resets on a new target. Untested in the Forever client. Unconfirmed

Amplify Curse into Bane of Agony
#showtooltip Bane of Agony
/cast Amplify Curse
/cast Bane of Agony

Amplify Curse is off the global cooldown in Classic; if not in Forever, press twice. Untested in the Forever client. Unconfirmed

One button for your channels
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt] Life Tap; [nochanneling,mod:ctrl] Wrack; [nochanneling,mod:shift] Drain Soul; [nochanneling] Drain Life

Drain Life by default, Shift for Drain Soul, Ctrl for Wrack, Alt for Life Tap. [nochanneling] stops you cutting a channel short. Untested in the Forever client. Unconfirmed