Welcome to our Affliction Warlock DPS guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing an Affliction Warlock in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by two prominent Warlock theorycrafters: Gahddo, who maintains the Warlock profiles and rotations in Simulation Craft, and Evrelia, who raids in ScrubBusters and frequently streams on Twitch.

Affliction Warlocks excel at sustaining high single-target and multiple-target damage, but they lack the burst damage that other Warlock specialisations have.

Affliction Warlocks, as all Warlocks have a number of minions that they can use and each of them is bringing a number of useful abilities to a raid. Also, in Mists of Pandaria, Warlocks have the Demonic Gateway ability, which will, no doubt, come in handy in many situations.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros and addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.