Affliction Warlock Leveling Guide From 1 to 80 for WotLK Classic (2024)

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Leveling your Warlock as Affliction is all about yourdamage over time abilites. Corruption is the most powerful DoT in the game and,thanks to Siphon Life, you heal for 40% for all of the damage dealt by Corruption, making this themost important spell in your spellbook. The sooner you get this on your target, the sooner you startto heal. The best part of this spell is that the more Corruption you apply, the morehealing you will recieve. For this reason, you want to put Corruption on as many targets asyou can to benefit from the massive amount of healing you get. Depending on your gearlevel, often times Corruption will be enough to finish off the enemies. However, that's not thesame for boosted Warlocks.

Curse of Agony is the perfect pairing DoT to go with Corruption if you don't have gear orif you have been boosted. The long DoT duration, mixed with the power and self healing of Corruption, makesthese two DoTs a deadly combination. Curse of Agony is a ramping DoT, meaning it doesvery little damage at first, but ends up hitting harder than most other DoT's in the game towards the end.Place Corruption followed by Curse of Agony on every target for maximum damage. If youfind yourself pulling 6+ targets at once, apply Corruption on all enemies followed byCurse of Agony. This will give you all the self heals ticking before you start spreading your Agonies.If you're fighting anything under 5 targets, you should not need to worry about incoming damage. You can simply Corruptioninto Curse of Agony on one mob, repeated for all mobs in the pack.

Unstable Affliction is not used often, as it has a cast time, but it's still good for any higher HPtargets. It may be used to open with it on some targets if you feel like standing still and casting it. Hauntis rarely used when leveling, however this spell can be very helpful if you find yourself either pulling too much, fightinghigh HP mobs, elite mobs or if you want the healing from it. If you find yourself not using Haunt often,feel free to remove the points from Everlasting Affliction and Haunt and put theminto the Demonology tree.

Warlocks have a very powerul AoE in Seed of Corruption, however the best way to AoE while leveling outin the open world is simply to Corruption and Curse of Agony everything around you. When the mobsget close to you, a few ticks or Hellfire tend to finish them off all while barely hurting you at alldue to the insane self heals coming from Siphon Life and Fel Armor.

Your Demon choice depends largely on your personal preference. Each Demon has its ownstrengths and utility, all viable in their own way.

The rework on Sacrifice, which takes a portionof your Voidwalkers Health and gives you absorb for a ton of damage, is extrememly useful. You can pop this whileyou have Corruption ticking and you'll see your Health shoot right back up to full. Voidwalker also has theability to AoE taunt, reducing the chance all enemies hit by 10%, further improved by the talent, Demonic Brutality.All of this combined makes this the go-to pet for Affliction leveling.

The Felhunter deals above average damage thanks to their new spell, Shadow Bite,while bringing you the most utility out of the demons with its ability to interrupt Spells with Spell Lockand purge any nasty debuffs off you or your target with Devour Magic.

The Succubus, or Incubus, are great pets that remain an integral part of a Warlock's aresenal, as they do excellent damage while not needingto use their Mana to do so. Thanks to Dark Pact, this allows you to use the Succubus as a permanent source of Mana.

The Imp is a stong pet, however is usually used only for Destruction.

Warlocks have a ton of spells and demon Grimoires to buy. It can become daunting to think aboutwhich ones are worth getting. To keep it simple, you want to buy all ranks of spells that you find yourself using out in the open world.You can skip a bunch of spells if you want to save gold and make it less confusing. Some spells that you can skip traininguntil level 80 are listed below in order of which they become available on your trainer.

• Curse of Weakness
• Searing Pain
• Ritual of Summoning
• Rain of Fire
• Eye of Kilrogg
• Curse of Tongues
• Detect Invisibility
• Banish
• Subjugate Demon
• Curse of the Elements
• Create Firestone
• Soul Fire
• Curse of Doom
• Incinerate
• Soulshatter
• Ritual of Souls

Setting up a user interface and macros early on you will greatly improvethe quality of your leveling experience. Check out the Warlock Macros andAddons guides in the links below for the full list.

Once you achieve Level 80, we suggest checking out ourAffliction Warlock Guide which goes more in detail of how to play your Level 80Warlock.