PvE Affliction Warlock Pre-Raid & Best in Slot (BiS)

Author: bobodingo
Date: May 12, 2022
Expansion: TBC Classic

Affliction Warlock DPS Guide

Stat Priority

Talents & Builds

Gear & Best In Slot (BiS)

Gems, Enchants, & Consumables

Rotation, Cooldowns, & Abilities

Below you will find an Affliction Warlock’s Pre-Raid BiS gear set along with their BiS gearset for each Phase. As each phase is released, this page will be updated.

Pre-Raid BiS

Armor

Head: Spellstrike Hood or Demonfang Ritual Helm
Neck: Brooch of Heightened Potential
Shoulders: Mantle of Three Terrors
Cloak: Sethekk Oracle Cloak
Chest: Frozen Shadoweave Robe
Bracers: Crimson Bracers of Gloom
Hands: Gloves of Oblivion
Waist: Sash of Serpentra
Legs: Spellstrike Pants
Boots: Extravagant Boots of Malice
Ring: Ashyen’s Gift
Ring: Sparking Arcanite Ring
Trinket: Scryer’s Bloodgem
Trinket: Icon of the Silver Crescent
Held-in-Off-Hand: Khadgar’s Knapsack (25 Badges of Justice) or Orb of the Soul-Eater (25 Badges of Justice)

Weapons

One-Handed: Blade of the Archmage (Requires Exalted with Honor Hold) or Stormcaller (Requires Exalted with Thrallmar)
Two-Handed: Warpstaff of Arcanum or Grand Marshal’s War Staff (Alliance) or High Warlord’s War Staff (Horde)
Ranged: Nether Core’s Control Rod

Phase 1 BiS

Slot	Best in Slot		Alternative		Alternative
Helm	T6 Head
Shoulder	T6 Shoulder
Neck	Translucent	>	Eye of the Night	>	Sun King
Back	Nethervoid Shadow Damage only	>	Illidari Council	<	Healer Cloak Technically BiS, but should be healer Prio
Chest	Vestment	>	T6 Chest
Wrist	Nimble Thought
Hands	T6 Gloves
Waist	Noose	=	Waistwrap	>	BoB Only BiS if you can make use of the Hit Rating
Legs	T6 Legs	>	Channeled Elem
Feet	Seacaller
Ring	Ancient x2	>	BoES
Trinket	Skull	>	Icon/Pipe	OR	Quag/Mark

Weapons

Slot	Best in Slot		Alternative
Weapon	ZD	>	ToC
Off-Hand	CoDS
Wand	Forgotten Star

Head – Hood of the Malefic
Neck – Translucent Spellthread Necklace
Shoulders – Mantle of the Malefic
Cape – Nethervoid Cloak
Chest – Vestments of the Sea-Witch
Bracers – Bracers of Nimble Thought
Gloves – Gloves of the Malefic
Belt – Belt of Blasting
Legs – Leggings of the Malefic
Boots – Slippers of the Seacaller
Ring 1 –https://tbcdb.com/?item=33497
Ring 2 – Ring of Ancient Knowledge
Trinket 1 – The Skull of Gul‘dan
Trinket 2 – https://tbcdb.com/?item=33829
Wand – Wand of the Forgotten Star, https://tbcdb.com/?item=33192 (ally only)

70 upgrade link: https://seventyupgrades.com/set/3maNKusaU8HWNbYxfXHveA

Weapons

Main hand – Tempest of Chaos
Offhand – Chronicle of Dark Secrets

Two hands – Zhar‘doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer

BiS Gear

Head – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34340
Neck – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34359 (JC) or https://tbcdb.com/?item=34204
Shoulders – https://tbcdb.com/?item=31054
Cape – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34242
Chest – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34364
Bracers – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34436
Gloves – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34344 +
Belt – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34541
Legs – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34181
Boots – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34564
Ring 1 – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34230
Ring 2 – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34362
Trinket 1 – https://tbcdb.com/?item=32483
Trinket 2 – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34429
Wand – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34347

70 upgrade link: https://seventyupgrades.com/set/wiLFAWGKq7YDwQ1y982zHS

Weapons

Main hand – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34336
Offhand – https://tbcdb.com/?item=34179

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bobodingo

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