Affliction Warlock Talent Build & Glyphs
The 55/0/16 Affliction Warlock build for WotLK 3.3.5a, point by point. It is already loaded in the calculator below, so you can change a talent, try another build or copy a link to share it.
- 55/0/16 main build
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3.3.5a · LEVEL 80
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About the Affliction Warlock build
Affliction Warlock is a 55/0/16 build: fifty-five points in Affliction and sixteen in Destruction, none in Demonology. The spec is defined by Haunt, Unstable Affliction, Everlasting Affliction, Pandemic, Contagion and Death's Embrace. There is one build in the calculator, and the three glyphs it is built around are Quick Decay, Life Tap and Haunt.
- 55/0/16main build
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- 6glyphs
- 71points at level 80
Every talent in the main Affliction Warlock build
This is the 55/0/16 build, talent by talent, with what each one does at the rank the build takes. Talents are listed from the top of each tree to the bottom. The Demonology tree gets no points in this build.
Affliction55 points
| Talent | Rank | What it does at this rank |
|---|---|---|
| Improved Curse of Agony | 2/2 | Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 10%. |
| Suppression | 3/3 | Increases your chance to hit with spells by 3%, and reduces the mana cost of your Affliction spells by 6%. |
| Improved Corruption | 5/5 | Increases the damage done by your Corruption by 10% and increases the critical strike chance of your Seed of Corruption by 5%. |
| Soul Siphon | 2/2 | Increases the amount drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by an additional 6% for each Affliction effect on the target, up to a maximum of 18% additional effect. |
| Fel Concentration | 3/3 | Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks, while casting Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, Unstable Affliction and Haunt by 70%. |
| Nightfall | 2/2 | Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%. |
| Empowered Corruption | 3/3 | Increases the damage of your Corruption spell by an amount equal to 36% of your spell power. |
| Shadow Embrace | 5/5 | Your Shadow Bolt and Haunt spells apply the Shadow Embrace effect, increasing all periodic damage dealt to the target by you by 5%, and reduces all periodic healing done to the target by 10%. Lasts for 12 sec. Stacks up to 3 times. |
| Siphon Life | 1/1 | InstantWhen you deal damage with your Corruption spell, you are instantly healed for 40% of the damage done. In addition, the damage done by your Corruption, Seed of Corruption and Unstable Affliction damage over time effects is increased by 5%. |
| Improved Felhunter | 2/2 | Your Felhunter regains 8% of its maximum mana each time it hits with its Shadow Bite ability and the cooldown on that ability is reduced by 4 sec. In addition, increases the effect of your Felhunter's Fel Intelligence by 10%. |
| Shadow Mastery | 5/5 | Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 15%. |
| Eradication | 3/3 | When you deal damage with Corruption, you have 6% chance to increase your spell casting speed by 20% for 10 sec. |
| Contagion | 5/5 | Increases the damage of Curse of Agony, Corruption and Seed of Corruption by 5% and reduces the chance your helpful Affliction spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled by an additional 30%. |
| Malediction | 3/3 | Increases your spell damage by 3%, and increases the periodic critical strike chance of your Corruption and Unstable Affliction spells by 9%. |
| Death's Embrace | 3/3 | Increases the amount drained by your Drain Life by 30% while your health is at or below 20% health, and increases the damage done by your Shadow spells by 12% when your target is at or below 35% health. |
| Unstable Affliction | 1/1 | 15% of base mana · 30 yd range · 1.5 sec castShadow energy slowly destroys the target, causing 550 damage over 15 sec. In addition, if the Unstable Affliction is dispelled it will cause 990 damage to the dispeller and silence them for 5 sec. Only one Unstable Affliction or Immolate per Warlock can be active on any one target. |
| Pandemic | 1/1 | Grants the periodic damage from your Corruption and Unstable Affliction spells the ability to critically hit for 100% increased damage, and increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Haunt spell by 100%. |
| Everlasting Affliction | 5/5 | Your Corruption and Unstable Affliction spells gain an additional 5% of your bonus spell damage, and your Drain Life, Drain Soul, Shadow Bolt, and Haunt spells have a 100% chance to reset the duration of your Corruption spell on the target. |
| Haunt | 1/1 | 12% of base mana · 30 yd range · 1.5 sec cast · 8 sec cooldownYou send a ghostly soul into the target, dealing 405 to 473 Shadow damage and increasing all damage done by your Shadow damage-over-time effects on the target by 20% for 12 sec. When the Haunt spell ends or is dispelled, the soul returns to you, healing you for 100% of the damage it did to the target. |
Destruction16 points
| Talent | Rank | What it does at this rank |
|---|---|---|
| Improved Shadow Bolt | 5/5 | Increases the damage done by your Shadow Bolt spell by 10%, and your Shadow Bolt has a 100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to spell damage, increasing spell critical strike chance against that target by 5%. Effect lasts 30 sec. |
| Bane | 5/5 | Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Chaos Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec. |
| Ruin | 5/5 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells and your Imp's Firebolt spell by 100%. |
| Intensity | 1/2 | Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting or channeling any Destruction spell by 35%. |
Affliction Warlock glyphs
Major glyphs
Glyph of Quick DecayYour haste now reduces the time between periodic damage ticks of your Corruption spell.
Glyph of Life TapWhen you use Life Tap or Dark Pact, you gain 20% of your Spirit as spell power for 40 sec.
Glyph of HauntThe bonus damage granted by your Haunt spell is increased by an additional 3%.
Minor glyphs
Glyph of Drain SoulYour Drain Soul ability occasionally creates an additional soul shard.
Glyph of Demonic CircleReduces the cooldown on Demonic Circle by 4 sec.
Glyph of SoulsReduces the mana cost of your Ritual of Souls spell by 70%.
Affliction Warlock talents FAQ
QWhat is the best Affliction Warlock talent build in WotLK 3.3.5a?
Our main build is 55/0/16: 55 points in Affliction, 0 in Demonology and 16 in Destruction. The deepest talents it takes are Haunt, Everlasting Affliction, Death's Embrace and Unstable Affliction. The calculator on this page loads it, and you can change any point to see what it costs.
QWhich glyphs should a Affliction Warlock use?
The main build uses Glyph of Quick Decay, Glyph of Life Tap and Glyph of Haunt as major glyphs and Glyph of Drain Soul, Glyph of Demonic Circle and Glyph of Souls as minor glyphs.
QHow should a Affliction Warlock split talent points?
Level 80 gives 71 talent points. The main build spends them as 55/0/16 across Affliction, Demonology and Destruction. There is one build for this spec in the calculator, so the list above is the whole plan.