Affliction Warlock PvP guide

Affliction Warlock PvP talents

How often each PvP talent is taken. Click one for what it does.

Jinx

96%

Casting a curse now applies Corruption and Agony to your target, but curses now costs 1 Soul Shard.

Impish Instincts

77%

Taking direct Physical damage reduces the cooldown of Demonic Circle by 3 sec. Cannot occur more than once every 5 sec.

N Nether Ward

58%

G Gateway Mastery

34%

R Rot and Decay

23%

Soul Rip

9%

Fracture the soul of up to 3 target players within 20 yds into the shadows, reducing their damage done by 25% and healing received by 25% for 8 sec. Souls are fractured up to 20 yds from the player's location. Players can retrieve their souls to remove this effect.

Class and spec tree talents, with the build most players run and every cooldown adjusted for it: Affliction Warlock talents and kit.

What Affliction Warlocks press when they go

The offensive cooldowns in their goes, and how often each one is in it.

Dark Harvest

80%

Summon Darkglare

56%

Malevolence

17%

Crowd control on the enemy healer during a go

• Fear 41%
• Howl of Terror 31%
• Mortal Coil 16%
• Mortal Coil › Fear 5%

How Affliction Warlocks survive a go

When a go lands on an Affliction Warlock, the defensives pressed and how often:

What to kick on an Affliction Warlock

The casts worth an interrupt, ranked the way top players rank them, and how often each one is stopped this season.

• High Fear stopped 11% of the time
• High Shadowfury stopped 8% of the time
• High Unstable Affliction stopped 5% of the time
• High Haunt stopped 7% of the time
• High Dark Harvest stopped 14% of the time
• High Malefic Grasp stopped 7% of the time
• High Shadow Bolt Never stopped: most likely instant or not interruptible, so save the kick
• High Drain Soul stopped 10% of the time
• Medium Drain Life stopped 14% of the time

Priorities from Skill Capped's Affliction Warlock guide for 12.1 (Midnight Season 2).

Affliction Warlocks as kickers

Affliction Warlocks stop 9% of the high-priority enemy casts they meet with their interrupt ready. Across every spec with an interrupt it is 12%.

A chance is a cast from a kick list, begun while the player was alive, free to act, had their kick off cooldown and stood within its range. The combat log has no line of sight, so a pillar may have been in the way.

Affliction Warlock 3v3 arena comps

The teams Affliction Warlocks play in most.

Enhancement Shaman, Affliction Warlock, Mistweaver Monk

Marksmanship Hunter, Discipline Priest, Affliction Warlock

Affliction Warlock, Windwalker Monk, Mistweaver Monk

Holy Paladin, Affliction Warlock, Windwalker Monk

Frost Mage, Discipline Priest, Affliction Warlock

Holy Paladin, Shadow Priest, Affliction Warlock