Warlock · DPS · MoP Classic 5.4.8
MoP Classic P5 Affliction Warlock Guide
Maintain high-quality Agony, Corruption, and Unstable Affliction; use Haunt to amplify Drain Soul/Drain Life chains and manage shards.
Core resource:Soul Shards
Core Rotation
- Keep three DoTs up; refresh when a high-buff snapshot appears, avoid overwriting high quality with low quality.
- Shards are used for Haunt and Soulburn: Soul Swap, prioritizing long-lived high-value targets.
- On multi-target, use Soul Swap to quickly copy; during execute, accelerate cycle around Drain Soul and shard recovery.
Mechanics and Opener
- DoT snapshotting：Agony, Corruption, and Unstable Affliction snapshot damage based on buffs at cast; compare strength and remaining duration before overwriting old DoTs.
- Soul Shards：Haunt and Soulburn consume shards, Drain Soul during execute recovers them. Shards should be invested in highest gain and highest target value windows.
- Malefic Grasp：Channeling accelerates/duplicates DoT damage and is the main single-target filler; interrupting or switching to the wrong target amplifies losses.
- -3 sec｜Dark Intent, pet, and teleport circle in place：Don't let raid buffs and movement tools consume the opener.
- -2 sec｜Potion and pre-cast Haunt：First hit provides target vulnerability on landing.
- 0 sec｜Apply Agony, Corruption, Unstable Affliction in buff order：Let the opening trinket snapshot apply to all three DoTs.
- Buff peak｜Dark Soul combined with Soulburn: Soul Swap copy/refresh：Quickly establish highest-quality DoTs.
- DoT stability｜Malefic Grasp channel, maintain Haunt in key windows.：Continuously realize DoT value on the main target.
Common Mistakes and WCL Review
- Looking only at DoT uptime can mask snapshot quality issues.
- Don't spend precious shards on full three DoTs for short-lived adds.
- Three DoT uptime and snapshot strength, Haunt uptime.
- Shard generation/consumption, Soul Swap targets, and Drain Soul execute duration.