Classes

LEVELING GUIDE

WoW Forever Affliction Warlock Leveling Guide

Affliction Warlocks level by putting DoTs on enemies and finishing with a wand. Wands scale with spell power, so they deal close to damage for no mana. , taken from 10 to 14, makes instant, and can tank several dotted enemies. The level 20 deals enough damage to hold threat on its own.

Recommended talents

Level 20 · Affliction11/0/0

Recommended professions

  • Tailoring
    Covers most of your cloth gear up to 20, and its Shadow patterns boost Shadow damage, which powers and .
  • Enchanting
    Lets you make the level 5 and level 13 wands yourself. Affliction fills with the wand after its DoTs, so the wand is core damage.

ROUTELevel-by-level route

  1. 5

    Levels 1–5

    DoTs and your first wand

    • Sell your starting gear and food to a vendor; that covers at level 1 (10 copper).
    • The deals little damage and runs out of mana quickly, so don't lean on it.
    • From level 4, open with and let your DoTs do the work.
    • At 5, buy and equip a . Wands scale with spell power and cost no mana.

    New abilities

  2. 9

    Levels 6–9

    DoT, wand, save mana

    • The level 6 scales with Spirit and returns a lot of mana, but costs a lot of health. Use it only when your health is high.
    • Once you have at 8, apply your DoTs and finish with the wand.
    • Don't clip DoTs or put them on enemies that are about to die. It wastes mana and adds drinking time.
    • can pull extra enemies, so use it carefully.

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (6)

  3. 12

    Levels 10–12

    Voidwalker and Improved Corruption

    • At 10, do the class quest for right away. It holds threat well enough to tank several dotted enemies.
    • Put five points into from 10 to 14. At 5/5, is instant and deals 10% more damage.
    • A kill landed with the level 10 always gives a soul shard. Keep your shards for summoning and soulstones topped up this way.
    • Craft and with Tailoring. uses a pattern bought with Merchant's Favor and boosts Shadow damage only.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 10–123/5

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (10) · (10) · (12) · (12)

  4. 16

    Levels 13–16

    Suppression and first dungeons

    • Switch to at level 13. You make it yourself with Enchanting.
    • From 15, put points into . Four points reach the hit cap against same-level enemies, and it also lowers your threat.
    • The level 14 has no talent support before 20, so it isn't worth casting. Use the wand instead.
    • The level 14 brings back an enemy that sent the wrong way.
    • From 13 run The Hall of Thanes and Ragefire Chasm, and from 16 The Deadmines, for weapons and robes.
    • Craft and with Tailoring, plus and if you have the patterns.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 13–145/5
    • Lv 15–162/5

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (14) · (16)

    Dungeons for this range

  5. 19

    Levels 17–19

    Collecting dungeon gear

    • The fifth point of helps against slightly higher-level enemies.
    • Wailing Caverns (17), Shadowfang Keep (18) and Ruins of Lordaeron open up. Pick up their quests first; many reward wands and staves.
    • Put and a curse on every boss. In melee-heavy groups use .
    • At 18, put on the healer before pulls. It won't stop a wipe, but recovery is much faster.
    • Craft and with Tailoring, then upgrade to at 19.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 17–195/5

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (18)

    Dungeons for this range

  6. 20

    Level 20

    Pandemic and the Succubus

    • Your level 20 talent is , the strongest per point. Your crit chance is low at this level, but it still raises the critical damage of and .
    • Do the class quest for (or ). It's the highest-damage pet and holds threat on its own; switch to the Voidwalker if you need more threat.
    • Meeting stones don't summon, so is the only summon. Keep two soul shards spare.
    • In caster-heavy groups use .
    • Farm Shadowfang Keep, Wailing Caverns, The Deadmines and Ruins of Lordaeron for the target gear below. Tailoring can make , but its materials are hard to get.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 201/3
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    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (20) · (20) · (20)

ROTATIONHow to fight

  1. 1Send in your Succubus first.
  2. 2 — lowest upfront damage, so the least threat, and it needs time to build up.
  3. 3 — instant once is maxed.
  4. 4 — its initial hit causes direct threat, so cast it last.
  5. 5Finish with your wand. Before 20 it beats .
  6. 6Land the killing blow with to refill soul shards.

GEARLevel-20 target gear

Dungeon drops, quest rewards and crafted items worth chasing at level 20 for this spec, by slot, best stats for the spec first.

Head

Neck

  • BestQuest
    Quest "Friend of the Library"

Shoulder

Back

Chest

  • BestCraftLv 15
    Made with Tailoring
    Boosts Shadow damage only — and are Shadow.

Wrist

Hands

  • BestCraftLv 15
    Made with Tailoring
    Boosts Shadow damage only — and are Shadow.

Waist

Legs

Feet

  • BestCraftLv 20
    Made with Tailoring
    Materials are hard to get; otherwise use .

Finger

Trinket

Two-Hand

Main Hand

Held In Off-hand

Ranged

CLASS QUESTSClass quests

  • Level 10 — Voidwalker

    Trainer → the warlock in your capital → fetch an item → summon and defeat a Voidwalker at the circle to learn . Do it as soon as you get it.

  • Level 20 — Succubus / Incubus

    Same pattern: fetch an item, then defeat the demon at the circle to learn . has its own separate chain. The reward is .
    • Class quest

  • Orb of Soran'ruk

    A neutral quest picked up in the Barrens. Collect 3 fragments deep in Blackfathom Deeps and 1 large fragment in Shadowfang Keep, then choose the orb or the staff. It takes a deep push into Blackfathom Deeps, which is hard at 20.

CAMPINGCamping

  • A Tailoring camp gives Spirit, which feeds .
  • A Skinning camp adds 2% critical strike chance, which works with .
  • An Enchanting camp gives all stats and armor; an Alchemy camp gives mana per 5 seconds.