5.3 Affliction Warlock Basic DPS Guide

Let's take a look at the classic dot spec, reworked and changed for MoP, and proving to be the top source of dps
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[@Effingslackin]

Preach !!! been waiting forever for your warlock class guide ! :D

[@killjoy2011]

Preach thank you for making these guides. They have improved my game play so much

[@iSeahorseFur]

Easily, my favorite vids to watch. Keep it up, sir Preach!

[@VileVamp]

To all aspiring affliction locks waiting on his warlock guides for 5.4, one VERY important change, is soul swap. It no longer eats the dot on your main target, rather it COPIES all dots on the target (This includes seed of corruption AND soulsharded seed of corruption- that's right, they stack.), so if you have a supercharged via procs set of dots and seeds on the target, you can keep it up on several people for awhile if you keep swapping it around.

[@MyMomsFavoriteAccident]

Finally I been waiting on this foreverrrrrr

[@thagaard22]

Fortexorcist is a very good addon for tracking locks dots, so is affdos since it shows when it is ideal to redot, when trinkets/enchants procs

[@danielnbrown512]

Yay finally!!!!!!! Thanks preach

[@GeneralFallout15]

This has been extremely helpful to me just want to thank you and need to ask one question for the glyph's I have drain life instead of the soul stone extra one well because now mop gives you 4 soul stones. Do you think that drain life is a good one or should I change it and also with soul swap you can put all dots on one person in a second I used instead of that Soul of consumption do you think these are better to use for player vs player?

[@Nr4747]

Btw: Kiljaeden's Cunning is now pretty awesome for movement fights like Garalon and Stoneguards. Glyph of Soulswap is pretty horrible in a lot of situations (basically in every situation where you don't have 2 or more permanent targets), the reason is you want to use "normal" (non Soulburn-) Soulswaps every time an add is close to dying and apply it to another add - insanely important on Garalon's legs for example and really useful on Elegon's sparks aswell.

[@SOBERGODFOREVER]

Re-rolling A Lock & Naming Him Preachwarlcok

[@Napster_IO]

Preacher, I play a PvP based Affli Lock and Im loving it. As you mentioned in this video Mastery is 2nd after you reach a cap of haste. Well, ive reached that cap of haste (around 4k) and stacked mastery. and now im at 80% mastery. When should i break of mastery and go Crit or another secondary stat?

[@Cabbagesvensen]

Guys, Archimonde's vengeance has been changed to Archimonde's darkness. This allows you two charges of dark souls spells. On my destro warlock I use this, as the Dark soul: instability gives me +30% crit chance. I recommend picking this, as Kil'Jaeden's cunning/Mannoroth's fury are absolute shite.

[@axellibeck634]

Hey!! Huge fan Preach!! What's the name of the addons, showing the small images over the targets health-bar? Awesome video! keep up the good work!!:D Peach!!

[@DveevD]

I think you are awesome preach:)

[@frost953]

If I may, I often find dark regeneration to be greater than soul leech in fights such as windlord where massive aoes that your team must heal through can be a bit pressuring. Not only will you be actively healing yourself, but allowing healers to help you back up on your feet a lot more easily than if you had a simple passive spell damage HP return.

[@choasfrost]

YOU. ARE. AWESOME!

[@davidgrove4262]

god damit preach. ..making me make a lock now lol nice job as always brofist to you

[@smidge69]

Hey dude nice tutorial. My apologies if I missed something but if I'm not mistaken you used ss on 4 of the target dummies. when I try this I get the 30s cooldown incurred by the ss glyph as recommended. Thanks in advance

[@B0BBYL33J0RD4N]

Idk if its posted or not , but with nightfall wouldn't ungodly haste be a bigger benefit? Or is the mastery bonus damage better for compensating?

[@pbrunnberg]

An example: Let's say you do 1 000 000 dmg over 1 min when you have reforged everything into crit. But if you had haste instead of crit, you might do MORE dmg from faster dots and it also gives you a faster "hit rate" from your normal hits and faster cast time on your spellspells etc. You might therefore do more dmg from having haste than having crit during that time. It depends on how the boss fight if structured, but mostly you gain from having the stats you do most dmg for in the long run.

[@cheezypeezy2]

warlcok ftw, love it preacher :D

[@fuckamoo]

I am having an issue with keeping haunt up on boss fights, nightfall doesn't proc often enough to keep 100% up-time on haunt. Is it better to only use it during nightfall procs or are you supposed to switch to drain soul periodically to keep max up-time on haunt?

[@emanl84]

Hey Preacher!!! I am looking for that addOn that displays the dots on all the targets heads. I went through the UI addon but I would simply have that one. TY

[@Cyberianshout]

which are the nexy haste breakpoints after 4717 ? 5.....? 6.....? People are saying that you dont need to get hit capped because when your dots have been applied they dont miss, which is understable. But what if you miss applying them? miss a Haunt ? or your malefic grasp misses?

[@SightLierSphinX]

so if i cast my dots when my trinkets proc and keep casting fel flame are they still the strong dots which i casted on my trinket proc or do they turn back into weaker dots?

[@someidiotinnj]

I love me some Warlcok!

[@ItsTheBibby]

But I want to know the specifics. Is it just that you hit with your dots often enough above 11% that prior to 11% a dot miss would cause a dps loss more significant than the increases damage those points put in mastery would give you?

[@MrCorthez]

I have Affliction as my main spec but what should i get second? Demonology or Destruction?

[@JordanIsAlive]

question since soulswap has a CD now what should i do just use my shards and use it then?

[@Nr4747]

Dark Bargain is insanely strong, though. Not only can you survive lethal attacks, you ignore 50% of all damage done to you during Dark Bargains uptime. This is absolutely invaluable in some bossfights like Grand Vizier Zor'lok (Force and Verve phase), Windlord Ta'yak (last phase during running) and Garalon (kiting with pheromones or reducing crash damage/high pheromone stacks damage). I really think you should try it out if you're raiding.

[@ragingraven8993]

hey what is your add ons you got on.. for seeing the ticks nd stuff ??

[@joshuathegrate2000]

why do you want hit as number one stat when once you apply your dots the ticks dont miss

[@haydenhollenbaugh3958]

so does anyone notice how it was changed from demon soul to dark soul and how that relates to the games of the same name???

[@JordanIsAlive]

so should i go for 2488 haste and then throw everything onto mastery?

[@kingdomheartsguy44]

Anyone know what the addon that shows dots on every target without targeting them? I keep seeing it like in this video. What is it called?

[@TheCoonBrothers]

I'V BEEN LOOKING FOR THE ADDONS YOUR USING FOR HOURS, WHERE CAN I GET THEM

[@RandomG4m3rZ]

wow i got 2483 haste, should i over cap it or do the small number count?

[@smidge69]

My apologies if this question has been explained in the tutorial, but in the video you soulswapped to four targets. I've tried the same process on the target dummies but ss goes into a 30s cooldown after ss two. thanks in advance.

[@Peshyy]

hp bar (unitframes) - PitBull DoT tracking - ClassTimer

[@MrWarlordHD]

Which addons do you use for you hp bar and the dot tracking?

[@VaioArts]

Does anyone know if you're able to change your char's class? like from a mage to a druid etc

[@Johhnyp10]

should curse of elements be in the rotation?

[@BruceWillis57]

Anyone know what the name of the addon that shows the time limit left on his dots is called??

[@nicolasjohnson3811]

I NEED MOAR DOTS MOAR DOTS!

[@Naomi_Boyd]

4717 is the break point for UA. 2488 is the break point for an extra Corruption tick which is all you need otherwise you are just wasting over 2k that could be used for more mastery. Hit cap is not usually that important to dot classes but it's a must for affliction because if you miss the refresh on Agony you are losing a ton of dps.

[@diegokoolaid69]

I wonder what im doing wrong, I do like 34k dps in lfr with ilvl of 468...mayne because I have two 450 trinks?

[@Zanzibawrr]

what addon is he using for the UI to look like that?

[@chrisl270]

Soul link has changed. Now it's a shield for you and your pet.

[@mattflub]

WHAT is the addon that shows the time till the dot is up

[@vL4gs]

what addons do you use exept tidyplates and skada?

[@TheRomanoLV]

Can you tell me please what addons you using here? Thanks

[@TeddyBear1212121]

What is the addon you use to show your stats?

[@Reddharp]

where did 720p go? 1080p should not be next to 480p, its making it cry

[@TheStarkify]

As much as I enjoy you guides I do want to point out few things as a fan. Hit cap is not that important to warlocks right now. The stat priority for max damage should be hit (around 11% is fine) -> haste 4717 for extra DoT ticks, -> mastery as much as you can! -> haste -> crit. Keep up the good work tho!

[@thagaard22]

the healthbars looks like pitbull and i think the dottimers is fortexorcist, if not fortexorcist is very good

[@Copimi]

wath are those addons tell me NOWWWRRR!!!! but seriously, i is like your addons! could you please list them or post a link if you have already listed them somewhere else or something? thanks in advance and good guide. cheers.

[@Vilelated]

Lol, its a play style choice. @85 in cata my normal ticks from cor and ua would.be between 12k to 20k and crit for about 30k for a single tick. Now that so much has changed and fits more into that style it only seems more viable. I swapped to main a ele sham for our raid team, but i work my lock when I can and mastery crit is still very powerful.

[@Naomi_Boyd]

If mastery is more important than intellect and crit is our worst stat, shouldn't we be using Fleet primal diamonds instead of Burning? 432 mastery vs. 216 int

[@God8010]

If swap is on cd and you gain a new shard, you cant soulburn again until it comes off cd. next patch its changing but right now, the swap glyph is pointless. Moreso until swap saves the buffs from the inhale on what those dots were, which again changes next patch.

[@minerpick]

is this guide still valid for newest patches?

[@Peshyy]

and if you meant nameplates : TidyPlates and configured to show debuffs and hp like that

[@Camps2630]

I forgot all about this series :P

[@Naomi_Boyd]

Does Dark Soul stack with Blood Lust?

[@JordanIsAlive]

because im seeing on noxxic its saying go for 9778

[@Novandara-xo]

I use Ellipsis from Curse. Not sure it's the same, but it does the same thing :)

[@Taurussagacity]

So you can instead of agony, use Curse of elements, and keep agony on with soul swap, aslong as you got soul stones. Since curse of elements won't fall off when you apply agony with soul swap.

[@wowxleahyrain]

the yellow bar is "needtoknow"

[@shahabhamidi4625]

did you get the addons ?

[@Jakeak013]

what is the dot addon?

[@paislychainsaw]

Not sure if you're serious but there's an annotation in the video (bottom right corner) directing you to the UI download.

[@TheDancerMacabre]

This is why I find the warlock community fun, and why I love to be part of it, there's such amount of theroycrafting and numbers thrown around. Though I disagree with your Mastery/Crit model, I find it amusing (Not condscending) that you're tweaking it to see what would work best in short: NERD!!!!

[@noelnemeth6263]

Either an affli warlock or shadow priest killed me in like 5 seconds with like 10 dots and a channel

[@Benevolene]

Expertise = Hit as a caster since MOP

[@axellibeck634]

The one showing the DoTs

[@philbblack]

What addons are you using?

[@r1charddav1s]

no preach, you do not need to reach hit cap! once your dots are applied they cannot miss, Get the haste breakpoint but then slam everything into mastery, when you reach a higher gear level then you can look at reaching the hit cap, but you will definately see a huge dps increase by going hard into mastery and getting hit where you can

[@Copimi]

yes i was serious and thank you. i usualy turn off annotations right at the beginning of every video so... cheers lad.

[@JordanIsAlive]

ahhh alright thanks

[@mcspankybegood]

yes

[@TheGodofcookiez]

he has a video on that

[@Deaqongamez]

nice :D

[@SahajSoldier]

Yeah when he showed the old Soul Leech tooltip I knew it wasn't 5.3

[@Hullahuppimswingercl]

Dude why do you have 320 Expertise in the red gem slot of your head? :D 16:29 ... Gonna play melee Warlock? :P Nice guide dude, I did not want to be rude; - Keep it up!

[@ImStaringAtUrightNow]

mastery is a bigger dps increase than haste on locks right now

[@ItsTheBibby]

Why specifically 11%?

[@Little-Hercules]

Looks like Tidy plates and Class timer.

[@God8010]

"cant soulburn a swap for dots until swap comes off cd." is what I meant to say.

[@stealthstyle1]

One of my favorit classes although I hate affli I love demo and destro though :)

[@MonkeyJazz75]

The Destro Lock link is broken btw.

[@Vilelated]

Actually it isn't, if you focus on mastery stacking with crit then you can out dps a haste model that is only going for 1 extra tick. The only break points I look at are 33.3% & 66.6% the 33 will give your ticks a 2 sec tick rate while the 66 is a 1 sec tick rate achieved by holding a minimum of 6.66% then use your dark soul normally to achieve the 2 sec rate and used with hero or lust for a 1 sec rate. If properly stack mastery crit will out dps any amount of haste.

[@Dolphinsz]

It's not his chair it's someone eles account, so they tend to noob it up a bit

[@metalmilitia89]

Shadow priests need some buffs like the Afllic warlock has.

[@etaksdgk]

it's approximate, so, around 11%

[@OptikRise3]

I agree, 'locks got screwed on their Level 90 talents

[@Jharling12]

no intellect? that can't possible be right. where would it be on that list?

[@jens123able]

Fucking finally!

[@woostar88]

Crit is very good for DoT warlock in 5.3 also mastery is second IMO

[@metalmilitia89]

I'll lvl a Warlcok after I level the damn fire mage.

[@mleet3125]

Search his channel for keyword: addon

[@ItsTheBibby]

With Pandemic you aren't forced to wait until the very last second to refresh. If you plan ahead and refresh whilst there are still a few tics left, you won't lose any dps. Even if it does hit the Dot will just have its duration extended instead of you wasting tics. I am yet to fail refreshing Agony before it expires in any single target boss fight, and I started with warlock dps roughly when 5.1 came out so I am certainly not good at it. Which leads me to assume you have to suck to fail at it.