If you have been in PvP for a while, you may think that an affliction warlock is very easy to play: just throwing some DoT spells while keep retreating from the opponent; in fact, it takes a lot more than that to win the match against an expert player. That’s why in this warlock pvp guide, you’ll learn how to take the most necessary talents to maximize your killing power and end the match ASAP.

Your Skills

Your primary weapon is your DoT spells, so it is only natural for you to pick the talents that give boost to your spells and DoT damage, but there are some other talents that you need too. Here is the PvP Warlock talent build that centered on Affliction:

1. Improved Corruption; improve Corruption damage by 10%, it is an obvious choice when you play Affliction Warlock.

2. Suppression; improve your spells possibility to hit by 3% and decrease mana cost for your Affliction spells by 6%.

3. Improved Curse of Agony; improve your Curse of Agony’s damage by 10%.

4. Improved Drain Soul; increase Drain Soul spell.

5. Soul Siphon; increase your Drain Life and Drain Soul spell.

6. Fel Concentration; make it harder for your enemy to interrupt your channeling spell.

7. Nightfall; throw that instant Shadow Bolt to your enemy for extra damage.

8. Empowered Corruption; boost your Corruption spells.

9. Siphon Life; increase your Corruption damage while being healed at the same time.

10. Shadow Embrace; improve the power of Haunt and Shadow Bolt. Also decrease all periodic healing such as Priest’s Renew at the same time.

11. Shadow Mastery; power up your Shadow spells by 15%.

12. Eradication; when dealing damage with Corruption spells, there is 6% chance to increase your spell casting speed by 20% for 10 seconds.

13. Contagion; enhance the damage of your Corruption spell and while doing so make it harder to be dispelled.

14. Malediction; boost your spell by 3%. Additionally, it raises your periodic critical strike possibility of your Corruption and Unstable Affliction by 9%.

15. Death Embrace; improve your Drain Life by 30% when your health is under 20%. If your health is below 20% in 5v5 you will be dead in just a few seconds, so it is not that valuable in team PvP, but it has some effect in 1v1 battle. The other effect is improving your Shadow spells damage by 12% when your target’s health is under 35%; this is very helpful to finish the battle quickly.

16. Unstable Affliction; 1150 Shadow damage for 15 second with 2070 damage and silence effect as “bonuses” for whoever dare to dispel it.

17. Everlasting Affliction; your Haunt and Drain Life spell can reset the duration of Corruption spell on the target.

18. Haunt; deal 654-673 Shadow damage and improve all DoT on the target. When it dispelled or ends the soul return and heals you for 100% of the damage.

You may have read other pvp guide for warlock that recommend to spend the points that left in Demonology to make you harder to kill, but for this warlock talent build, I’ll pour some points in Improved Shadow Bolt. It is ideal for your Nightfall talent and as a reserve spell in case your curses are not work well on your opponent.

Your Enemy

On some occasions, you may get away with only the basic tactic: running around while casting DoT spells and Fear, but what if your enemy can counter those skills? These are some skills that dangerous for you:

1. Drain your mana; you are fully rely on your mana for combat. A warlock with no mana is no threat at all.

Solution: Depending on circumstances, you can add your mana by using Life Tap; just be very careful when you do so.

2. Remove your curses; unless you have Shadow Bolt or any other direct damage skills on your sleeve, you have very little option left to win the battle when your curses removed.

Solution: make it more difficult for your opponent to dispell your spells by having Contagion and Unstable Affliction.

3. Resist to Fear; there are no real solution for this one. You can still win the battle, but it will be harder since they can catch up with you.

The answers above are just making it tougher for your opponent, but it will not make you win the battle. If you want to increase your winning chance, you have to know strength and weakness of each class, including your own. A good counter strategy can be developed according to those data.

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