Warlock Guide

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Affliction

• 55-0-16
  
  
• Hit Cap = 17% Total (hit cap should be your first priority)
  • 446 from gear alone
  • with 3 points in Suppression, cap is 368

• Stats to Stack
  1. Spell Power
  2. Haste
  3. Spirit
  4. Crit Chance
  5. Intellect
     

• Glyphs
  • Glyph of Quick Decay
  • Glyph of Life Tap
  • Glyph of Haunt
    
    
• Rotation
  • Life Tap (for glyph buff)
  • Shadow Bolt
  • Haunt
  • Corruption (only once; auto refreshes)
  • Unstable Affliction
  • Curse of Agony
  • Shadow Bolt (repeat until cool downs are up)
  • Drain Soul when target is below 25% health (for 4X damage buff)
    
    
• Minion
  • Felhunter for raid Intel buff and silence/cleanse
  • Doomguard may be used on boss fights for extra damage

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Demonology

• 0-56-15
  
  
• Hit Cap = 17% Total (hit cap should be your first priority)
  • 446 from gear alone

• Stats to Stack
  1. Spell power
  2. Crit Chance
  3. Haste
  4. Spirit
  5. Intellect

• Glyphs
  • Glyph of Life Tap
• Glyph of Metamorphosis
• Glyph of Felguard
  
  
• Rotation
  • Life Tap
  • Curse of Agony
  • Corruption
  • Immolate
  • Incinerate or Shadow Bolt (repeat until cool downs are up)
  • Cast Soul Fire when Decimation procs (target is below 35%)
    
    
• Minion
  • Felguard

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Destruction

• 3-13-55
  
  
• Hit Cap = 17% Total (hit cap should be your first priority)
  • 446 from gear alone
  • with 3 points in Suppression, cap is 368

• Stats to Stack
  1. Spell Power
  2. Haste
  3. Crit Chance
  4. Spirit
  5. Intellect
     

• Glyphs
  • Glyph of Immolate
  • Glyph of Incinerate
  • Glyph of Conflagrate
    
    
• Rotation
  • Curse of Elements (optional on boss fights, COD can be used instead)
  • Immolate
  • Chaos Bolt
  • Conflagrate
  • Incinerate ( X3 - to use Conflag proc)
  • Conflagrate (should be available again before Immolate is done)
  • Incinerate as filler when needed
  • Drain Soul when target is below 25% health (for 4X damage buff)
    
    
• Minion
  • Imp (damage buffs to destruction spells)

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