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Hello all,

Scince the patch I have spent some hours reading on forums and training on target dummies in IF. I have also tried raiding as affliction in Black Temple with the result of topping damage done on several bosses. Standing a little bit lower on dps though. I thought it would be a good idea to share my personal experiences so far with my fellow locks.

Why Affliction

- It's fun
- It seem's to put out the highest total damage on raidbosses compared to other warlock-builds atm.
- It's very self-sustainable when it comes to health and mana.
- Haunt and everlasting Corruption/Shadow Embrace.

Challanges as Affliction

- Spellrotations and refreshing dots in the most efficient way

Conclusions

- We have stepped down a bit on dps but have increased our total damage compared to before.
- Shadow Bolt is still one of our major damage spells

Talentbuild

Talenbuild 56/0/5

Imrproved Life Tap in combination with Haunt is enough to sustain mana. No need for Supression (if you are hit capped) or Dark Pact.

Put points in Frailty and Malediction. If raiding with a Moonkin put CoR. If there is no Moonkin put CoE.

Pet

Use the Felhunter. The Shadow Bit ability gives a boost to damage.

Major Glyphs

- Extended Banish
- Chance to get instant SB from Corruption tics
- Reduced mana cost on SB (Don't find mana to be an issue so this one might be skipped for now)

Spellrotations

Basicly your fighting will be devided into 2 phases;

1. Dotting and refreshing dots
2. Spamming Shadow Bolts

Our priority is to fit in as many SB as possible during #2 while keeping dots up. It's extremly important to keep the Shadow Embrace x2 effect up all the time in order to boost damage as much as possible.

On single trash go SB-Curse-Haunt-Corruption-SB-SB-SB ...
On aoe trash it's Seed of Corruption for the winn.

Macros

In order to tune the spellrotation for maximal damage use the macros bellow. Have two dot refresing macros scince it's only needed to put up Siphon Life every second refreshing. Corruption is only needed to put up in the begining scince it is automaticly refreshed with Haunt. Do this manually. This means;

1. Start with Shadow Bolt and Curse
2. Then use the first dot sequence with Corruption inserted manually after Haunt
3. Start to hit the Shadow Bolt spamming until Corruption needs refreshing
4. Use the second dot sequence
5. Back to Shadow Bolt spamming
6. Use the first dot sequence
7. Back to Shadow Bolt spamming

Repeat 4-7 until target is dead

If an extra Life Tap is needed you can do it during SB phase.

Start Up macro:

/castsequence reset=target/combat Shadow Bolt, Curse of the Elements

Dot refreshing macros:

/castsequence reset=target/combat Haunt, Siphon Life, Unstable Affliction, Life tap

/castsequence reset=target/combat Haunt, Unstable Affliction, Life tap

SB macro:

#showtooltip Shadow Bolt
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/use 13
/use 14
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast Shadow Bolt

CC macro (Banish as an example):

Holding ALT when clicking will change focus lock to new target or remove focus lock if no target

#showtooltip Banish
/clearFocus [target=focus,dead]
/clearFocus [target=focus,noexists]
/clearFocus [modifier:alt]
/focus [modifier:alt] target
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Banish