2025 Mists of Pandaria Affliction Warlock DPS Guide! Talents, Rotation, and More!

Special thank you to Sparkuggz for paving the way. Plus, Fear, Hadoogin, and Midori for the video feedback. #warlock #affliction Shoutout to Merfin for the Warlock Pack/ElvUI - Link to his discord:   / discord   Pick up your Rested XP guide here and get the quest stacking guide with it (as well as a bonus reputation guide for level 90) - https://www.restedxp.com/ref/pummelw/ More information listed in discord/open for questions on Anything (Macros/Addons/WAs):   / discord   Streamed at :   / pummel   SUPPORT ME AT:   / itspummel   *------------------Macros-----------------* Mouseover Soul Swap: #showtooltip Soul Swap /cast [@mouseover, exists, nodead] Soul Swap; [@Target, exists, nodead] Soul Swap Dark Soul + CDs + Racial: #showtooltip Dark Soul /use 10 /use 13 /use 14 /cast Lifeblood /cast Berserking /cast Blood Fury /cast Dark Soul *------------------Rotation-----------------* 07/16/2025 Prepull: -3s Prepot (Potion of the Jade Serpent) -2 Haunt On Pull: 1. Make sure COE is on your targets 2. Soulburn + Soul swap for all 3 dots on the target 3. Maleific Grasp for a few ticks (3-4) for procs 4. Pop All cds - Racial + Gloves + Dark Soul 5. Soulburn + Soul swap again to resnap the original dots + take advantage of pandemic window 6. Summon Terrorguard (Infernal is not very great) 7. Reapply Haunt (shards permitting) Maintenance Maintenance: 1. Keep dots on target at all times Refresh manually IF you do not have the shards to soulburn soul swap DO NOT OVERWRITE POWERFUL DOTS WITH SWAP you are low on shards and procs will be up soon take adv of pandemic window 2. Cast Haunt with 2+ Soul shards, try to save one to soulburn soulswap snapped buffed or if you have strong cds up like Dark Soul Note: DO NOT OVERCAP ON SOUL SHARDS 3. Malefic Grasp as filler 4. Life Tap if you are low on mana, strong global when moving 5. Sub 20% use Drain Soul and no longer use Malefic Grasp Note: If you are desperate for shards you can drain soul for a soul shard earlier after two ticks AOE: 2-4 Targets WILL TAKE PRACTICE 1. Prepull: SB/Prepot/Haunt 2. Soulswap for all three dots on pull 3. Malefic Grasp for procs 4. ALL CDS (racial, gloves, trinkets) 5. Soulburn soul swapx4 6. BEFORE BERSERKING FALLS OFF soulburn soul swap first target 7. Inhale global exhale until trinket procs again 8. Soulburn soulswap INHALE - Soul Swap dots OFF target 1 EXHALE - Soul Swap dots ONTO target 2 What to do as Filler? Maleific Grasp Seed Life Tap 5+ Targets -5+ Enemies Soulburn Seed Seed CAN be Soul Swapped Seed needs to break from YOUR OWN damage Put up Soulburn/SS on high hp targets if you want to swap them Optional: Infernal (dont use if boss has dam amp like wind lord for example) 5+ enemy AOE is not that strong IMO Music by @HoobeZa Link -    • [No Copyright] Chill Lofi Background Music...   Intro 0:00 Talents 0:16 Glyphs 2:31 Prebis/Stat Prio/Gems/Consumes 3:34 Important Changes 5:05 Walkthrough Opener 8:17 Full Speed Opener 9:05 Maintenance 9:30 2-4 Target SUPER SLOW 13:00 2-4 Target Slow 15:17 2-4 Target Fast 16:25 5+ Targets 17:33 EXTRA TIPS 18:37 Outro 20:17