- Author: Luxrah
- Date: May 18, 2025
- Updated: May 18, 2025
- Expansion: Mists of Pandaria
As an Affliction Warlock in Mists of Pandaria, you’ll be looking for gems, enchants, and consumables that provide the strongest Intellect and secondary stat bonuses to help you overwhelm your enemies with DoT damage.
Gems
Gems can help you reach the Hit cap or a Haste breakpoint if needed, but it’s better to do that through reforging when possible and save your gem slots for Mastery. As far as colors go, Intellect and Mastery socket bonuses should always be taken by using appropriate colored gems, but Hit and Haste bonuses depend on whether you need to reach a cap, and other stats such as Critical Strike or Spirit can be ignored.
While Intellect is more valuable point-for-point, you’ll get twice as many stats out of secondary stat gems, which makes them more optimal overall.
Meta Socket
- Sinister Primal Diamond (Available in Phase 2)
- Burning Primal Diamond
Prismatic Socket
- Fractured Serpent’s Eye (Requires Jewelcrafting)
- Fractured Sun’s Radiance or Perfect Fractured Sunstone
Red Socket
- To reach the Hit cap:
- To reach a Haste breakpoint:
- Otherwise:
Yellow Socket
- Fractured Serpent’s Eye (Requires Jewelcrafting)
- Fractured Sun’s Radiance or Perfect Fractured Sunstone
Blue Socket
- To reach a Haste breakpoint:
- Otherwise:
Sha-Touched Socket
Cogwheel Socket
- To reach the Hit cap:
- To reach a Haste breakpoint:
- Otherwise:
Enchants
- Head:
- (There are no head enchantments available in Mists of Pandaria.)
- Shoulder:
- Secret Crane Wing Inscription (Requires Inscription)
- Greater Crane Wing Inscription
- Back:
- Lightweave Embroidery (Requires Tailoring)
- Enchant Cloak – Superior Intellect
- Chest:
- Wrist:
- Fur Lining – Intellect (Requires Leatherworking)
- Enchant Bracer – Super Intellect
- Plus Socket Bracer (Requires Blacksmithing)
- Hands:
- Enchant Gloves – Superior Expertise (to reach the Hit cap)
- Enchant Gloves – Greater Haste (to reach a Haste breakpoint)
- Enchant Gloves – Superior Mastery
- Plus Synapse Springs (Requires Engineering)
- Plus Socket Gloves (Requires Blacksmithing)
- Waist:
- Living Steel Belt Buckle
- Plus Frag Belt (Requires Engineering)
- Legs:
- Master’s Spellthread (Requires Tailoring)
- Greater Cerulean Spellthread
- Feet:
- Enchant Boots – Greater Precision (if you need Hit)
- Enchant Boots – Greater Haste (to reach a Haste breakpoint)
- Enchant Boots – Pandaren’s Step
- Finger:
- Enchant Ring – Greater Intellect (Requires Enchanting)
- Weapon:
- Off-Hand:
Consumables
Potions
You can “pre-pot” by using Potion of the Jade Serpent just before entering combat. This will put your potions on cooldown but allow you to use them again later in the fight. You may want to save your potion cooldown for a healing or mana potion on certain fights.
Flasks & Elixirs
There are no good Guardian Elixirs for Affliction Warlocks, so you will always prefer to use a flask. If you have Alchemy, you’ll get 30% increased stats and an extra hour of duration from each flask.
Food
Your best food is made with the Way of the Pot Cooking specialty. Having this specialty will increase the stats you gain from eating the associated Banquets.
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