[MoP] Affliction Warlock Guide for 5.4.8

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Best PvP Races for Warlock.

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»Human(Alliance): Its one of the bests for alliance, because of Every Man for Himself, it give you the chance to get 2X DPS trinket, the proc one and the activation second.

»Orc(Horde): In my opinion id prefer to play as orc than a human, but at pandawow there is no horde players to play with. Its good because of Blood Fury, Giving attack power and 2 min cooldown.

Reforges/Gems/Enchants

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As reforges, you gonna need to priorize Haste better than Mastery that is better than Critical. getting like this: Hit 6% > Haste > Mastery

For metagems you gonna need: Tyrannical Primal Diamond
For all other ones, (blue, red, yellow) you have the choice to ignore slots. using: Quick Sun's Radiance

At enchants we gonna separate for parts:

»Shoulders: +200 intellect 100 critical strike
»Cloak: +180 intellect / tailoring eboirdery +2k intellect
»Chest: +80 All stats
»Bracer: +180 intellect
»Hands: +170 Haste
»Belt: An Addictional gem spot
»Legs: 285 intellect 175 critical strike
»Boots: Pandaren's step 140 mastery+ walk speed

Best Talents /Glyphs

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Level 15 Line: Dark Regeneration
Level 30 Line: Shadowfury - [Mortal coil only for some WLS cases]
Level 45 Line: Soul Link
Level 60 Line: Blood horror against melee cleaves / Unbound Will against Caster cleaves.
Level 75 Line: Grimmoire of supremacy for non caster's cleaves / grimmoire of sacrifice for Caster cleaves. ex Godcomp/MLS/LSD
Level 90 Line: Archimonde's Darkness

Glyphs [MAJOR]
Eternal Resolve «
Unstable Affliction «
Syphon of Life«

Glpyhs [MINOR]
Health Funnel «
+2 of your choice. But not Gateway attunement.

How to open in a 3v3 Game.

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»First of all, before the match starts, call your pet first, buff up with undefined and Create Soulwell if a game agaisnt caster's like MLS/LSD, use Grimoire of Sacrifice If Against WMS/Turbocleave, you need to run undefined And Summon Voidlord to tank all the dmg with the Soul Link UP.

*GAME START*

»Go for the next pillar, cast Demonic Gateway to the other pillar, prefference the side pillars. if the arena is [TIGERS PEAK] Go for gate a lil bit back and cast it for Mid>Left Plataform. 

»After casting ur gate, cast your Demonic Circle

»If The enemy player is a warrior, use blood horror only after casting a Fear And he using his Berserker Rage. then you can train him during the ant fear. or using anyways a Shadowfury if a triple target stun.

»Never, i said NEVER, use your Shards for instant dots at start of the game. Start it casting Unstable Affliction > Corruption > Agony , Soul burn : Soul swap > then spread dots for all enemy team. after you getting all your procs casting with Malefic Grasp , use undefined and spam Haunt for each enemy target. during this if youre in a hurry go casting Curse of Exhaustionand Demonic Circle, to quit melees. if your healer got CC Chained go for gate. Well, its your basic oppening.

Tips

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1. Never let your pet die, if you loose your Soul link buff, youre dead ;D
2. Never start a game with blood horror active against warriors, 90% of them start the game reflecting it
3. To remove the mass spell/spell reflection always use Of Fel Flame or any pet hability, if you have a druid on your team, tell him to smooth the warrior.
4. I Recommend /target arena 1 2 3 macros or /cast Command demon arena 1 2 3, you need to be fast on kicks to doesnt get a cc chain on ur team.
5. Keep the curses up against classes who can/cant dispel it. if you force their dispel, your shaman (if in your group) can hex any target and maybe force a CD.
*FEAR/HAUNT TIPS
6. Always when you can, fear on your enemy's healer or off target and spam haunts on target 1 / 2 to pressure up, then when done the fear, swap with fear on one of the 2 targets and haunt the off target that had got feared seconds ago.
7. Never use fear on a target who got Haunt debuff/Darksoul dots. you gonna waste a important DR.
8. Gate is one of the most important things in your class. Cast it before the game starts, if not possible try to cast it when really safe.

Best COMPOSITIONS

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LSD; Lock affliction, Shaman elemental, Druid Restoration
LSDv2; Lock affliction, Shaman restoration, Druid Balance
MLS; Mage frost/fire, Lock affliction, Shaman restoration
HLS; Hunter MM/Survival, Lock affliction, Shaman restoration
WLS; Warrior, Lock affliciton, Shaman restoration
Shadowcleave/Shadowplay; DK/Spriest, Warlock affliction, Shaman restoration.

This ones are the best compositions for me, specially: HLS/MLS/LSD