Introduction
Welcome to the Affliction Warlock DPS guide written by Timo (Fraser), one of Honolulu’s main raiders.
Heading into The War Within. Affliction’s strengths lie in single target and sustained spread cleave scenarios while also having high mobility alongside high self-heals and survivability. Our AoE relies on targets living a sizable duration but when they do we can output some strong DPS.
What has changed
Patch 11.0.7 Changes
- Haunt damage increased by 75%
- Focused Malignancy now causes Malefic Rapture to deal 25% (was 15%) increased damage to targets suffering from Unstable Affliction
- Oblivion damage increased by 25%
- Xavius’ Gambit now increases the damage of Unstable Affliction by 20% (was 15%)
- Perpetual Unstability damage increased by 25%
- Siphon Life now increases Corruption damage by 30% (was 20%)
In patch 11.0.7 a lot of affliction talents received buffs, mostly these are talents that never saw play in any form of content. However, despite these buffs the only effective talent buff is the increase in damage of Corruption via Siphon Life. This buff makes it so that corruption (wither when playing Hellcaller Hero Talent) ticks considerably harder and should be played in single target Hellcaller over the previously picked Absolute Corruption.
The baseline buff to haunt increases our single target and priority damage slightly but the rest of the talent buffs are still not enough to see any play over the previous builds. Even the buff to Siphon Life doesn’t change a whole lot as Soul Harvester is still the go-to option in single target over Hellcaller unless you are forced to be considerably on the move.