World of Warcraft Affliction Warlock Spell Rotation

Know the Affliction Warlock Spell Rotation while raiding or dungeon crawling in World of Warcraft can mean a lot of things to you as a player, to your guild and to your raid group. It's easy for any old Affliction Warlock to throw up some DoTs, but what then? What do you do when your DoTs are up? How do you know what order to cast your spells in? Are you causing maximum DPS the way you're fighting right now. These are all questions this article intends to answers. Here is the optimal raiding and 5-man Affliction Warlock Spell Rotation

First of all, you're going to want to get your DoTs up as quickly as possible. As of the changes in Patch 3.1, we're now looking at a tweaked Affliction Warlock Spell Rotation as follows:

Shadow Bolt first to pull the creature. If you aren't pulling, then don't worry about Shadow Bolt. Haunt comes next, then Corruption. We're starting to stack on the DoTs here and it's extremely crucial that you refresh these when they wear off. Unstable Affliction is next, then Curse of Agony. Curse of Agony will be the last one you'll need to refresh.

After you've got all of you DoTs up, you'll need to spam shadowbolt until one needs refreshing to fill in the extra time. This spell rotation will bring optimal DPS for your affliction warlock because you've got DoTs ticking while spamming shadowbolt. You may want to even take some talents that buff Shadowbolt to use with the rotation as well. After all, Affliction isn't ALL about DoTs, ust mostly...

When looking at Glyphs that would work nicely with this rotation, Glyph of Haunt, Glyph of Lifetap, and Glyph of Corruption come to mind. The Curse of Agony Glyph is also a wise choice, but I use Corruption because it's a more used spell and recasted spell than Curse of Agony.

So there you have it. An updated Affliction Warlock Spell Rotation for all of you locks out there raiding in World of Warcraft. I hope this rotation works out for you, and we're fortunate to have a big enough Glyph Selection that directly adds to our DPS like we do. Until next time, take care and WoW it up!