Best Talent Build For PvP Affliction Warlock

If you have been in PvP for a while, you may think that an affliction warlock is very easy to play: just throwing some DoT spells while keep retreating from the opponent; in fact, it takes a lot more than that to win the match against an expert player. That’s why in this warlock pvp guide, you’ll learn how to take the most necessary talents to maximize your killing power and end the match ASAP.

Abilities

Your primary weapon is your DoT spells, so it is only natural for you to pick the talents that give boost to your spells and DoT damage, but there are some other talents that you need too. Here is the PvP Warlock talent build that centered on Affliction:

1. Improved Corruption; boost all of your Corruption by 10%, you don’t want to miss this since you are an Affliction warlcok.

2. Suppression; improve your spells possibility to hit by 3% and decrease mana cost for your Affliction spells by 6%.

3. Improved Curse of Agony; improve your Curse of Agony’s damage by 10%.

4. Improved Drain Soul; boost your Drain Soul.

5. Soul Siphon; both of your Drain Life and Drain Soul are improved.

6. Fel Concentration; make it harder for your enemy to interrupt your channeling spell.

7. Nightfall; surprise your opponent by hurling an instant Shadow Bolt at him/her.

8. Empowered Corruption; increase your Corruption spell damage.

9. Siphon Life; increase your Corruption damage while being healed at the same time.

10. Shadow Embrace; improve the power of Haunt and Shadow Bolt. Also reduce all periodic healing like Priest’s Renew at the same time.

11. Shadow Mastery; increase your Shadow spells damage by 15%.

12. Eradication; each time you damaging your target with Corruption spells, you have 6% chances to increase your casting speed for the next 10 seconds.

13. Contagion; increase the damage of your Corruption spell and while doing so cause it to be harder to be dispelled.

14. Malediction; boost your spell by 3%. Additionally, it boosts your periodic critical strike chance of your Corruption and Unstable Affliction by 9%.

15. Death Embrace; enhance your Drain Life by 30% whenever your health is below 20%. If your health is below 20% in 5v5 you are going to be dead in just a few seconds, so it’s not that useful in team PvP, but it has some impact in 1v1 battle. The other effect is improving your Shadow spells damage by 12% when your target’s health is below 35%; this is very helpful to end the battle quickly.

16. Unstable Affliction; 1150 Shadow damage for 15 second with 2070 damage and silence effect as “bonuses” for whoever dare to dispel it.

17. Everlasting Affliction; your Haunt and Drain Life spell can reset the duration of Corruption spell on the target.

18. Haunt; deal 654-673 Shadow damage and increase all DoT on the target. When it dispelled or ends the soul return and heals you for 100% of the damage.

You may have read other pvp guide for warlock that recommend to spend the points that left in Demonology to make you harder to kill, but for this warlock talent build, I’ll pour some points in Improved Shadow Bolt. It is ideal for your Nightfall talent and as a reserve spell in case your curses aren’t work well on your opponent.

Your Enemy

Most of the time, you may have victory with simple tactic:keep retreating while bursting DoT spells and Fear, but what if some people have done their homework thoroughly and they come well prepared to counter those skills? These are some skills that dangerous for you:

1. Drain your mana; you will be fully rely on your mana for combat. A warlock with no mana is no threat at all.

Solution: You can replenish your mana by using Life Tap, but you should act based on your current condition and surrounding.

2. Remove your curses; having Shadow Bolt or other direct damage skills as a reserve can help you in this situation; otherwise, you have to play strategically with strict mana management.

Solution: Having Contagion and Unstable Affliction can make it harder to dispel your spells.

3. Resist to Fear; there are no real solution for this one. You can still win the battle, but it will be harder since they can catch up with you.

The solutions above are merely making it harder for your challenger, but it will not make you win the battle. If you want to increase your winning chance, you have to know strength and weakness of each class, including your own. A good counter strategy can be created according to those data.

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