Affliction Warlock Guide — WoW Forever
Damage over time, drains and sustain. Keep relevant damage-over-time spells active, manage your pet's threat and use recovery tools to reduce downtime.
Playstyle and priorities
Keep relevant damage-over-time spells active, manage your pet's threat and use recovery tools to reduce downtime.
Damage-over-time spells, demons and Life Tap let you manage multiple encounters. Health and Mana form a shared resource budget.
Leveling 1–60: what to plan
Build around the abilities already unlocked at your current level. Keep your most important survival, control or recovery tools available and adjust your talent order for solo play versus coordinated dungeon runs. The full level-60 allocation can differ from an efficient leveling order.
Race-specific Affliction guides: Orc Affliction · Undead Affliction
Playable races for Warlock
Race availability follows the current reference matrix; racial abilities and faction restrictions should be checked before committing a character. Open a race in the interactive reference to compare its abilities.
Other Warlock specializations
Verification and next steps
This specialization primer is not a verified rotation, BiS list or point-by-point talent order. Those recommendations require current talent data and playtesting. Use the calculator for your level and validate ability tooltips in game.