Affliction Warlock Duel Guide

Affliction Warlock Duel Guide

Addons:
Alert (plays sound when you get nightfall proc), Buttontimers (must have to track your dots), Cooldowns 1.3.3, interrupt bar, Lose control (must have), Plate buffs (shows your dots above name plates for easy multi-doting),Targetpercent (shows the % health next to your target's health bar so you know exactly when to use drain soul), Weakauras (to track berserker rage and lichborne)

Macros:

Dispel/Shield macro:
/cast [mod:alt] Devour Magic
/cast [target=player] Devour Magic
/cast Sacrifice

Offensive pet macro:
/cast Spell lock
/cast Seduction
/cast Consume Shadows

Fel domination macro:
/castsequence reset=15 Fel Domination, Summon Felhunter, Soul Link

Healing macro (this is really OP life saver):
#showtooltip Runic Healing Injector
/use Fel Healthstone
/use Runic Healing Injector
/use Battlemaster's Ruination

Glyphs:
Quick decay, for the 2 others, use Soul link(good vs anything) / corruption(good when multi-doting) / shadowflame(good vs melee).

Stats: Crit is useless. Go spell power and haste. Get 5% hit. Use 10% stun duration meta gem. Tuskarr's Vitality on boots gives you the 8% movement speed increase.

Optional talents:
Improved fear: Good vs melee
Improved shadow bolt: Good with glyph of corruption/multi-doting
Shadow embrace: Worth 5 points for 1v1 (duels), less for bg/arena
Fel domination: Only required for arena. Saves 3 points for bg/duels
Improved life tap: This will allow you to use life tap less often
Improved curse of agony: 10% more damage for a weak dot, not too good

General tips:
Cast Haunt on CD. Use drain life as filler (with full dots), or shadow bolt vs healers only. Life tap on full health (unless in danger) before you selfheal to avoid overhealing. Spam corruption on everything you can (make sure unit nameplates is on). Corruption usually does over 50% of your damage in pvp, it heals you and procs instant shadowbolts and eradication. When your shadow spells are disabled, run away and try to los, if you can't, use searing pain. Try to fear people before you cast UA/haunt since it's a lot easier when no one is beating on you. CoE is usually better because you do 13% more healing with it as well as damage. A good affli lock will do a lot of healing. Don't clip UA(cast it when the current UA has about 1 sec remaining so it does it's last tick right before the new one gets applied). Don't waste your death coil as a CC (unless vs healers), use it when you are in trouble and need healing. CoEx is very useful to prevent people from running away, it also allows you to dot & run (kite). Always keep recasting your curses even when they get spam dispelled. Drain soul execute is preferred when they are likely to be healed before they die.

My keybindings: http://imageshack.us/a/img259/754/wowsc ... 190239.jpg

CoA: Curse of Agony, CoE: Curse of the Elements, CoT: Curse of Tongues, CoEx: Curse of Exhaustion, UA: Unstable Affliction


Arms warrior:
Medium difficulty

Use Voidwalker. Begin with CoE, corruption, and fear (howl takes a GCD) and immediately haunt - usually he wont be able to spell reflect it that way. Death coil him during Berserker rage and keep fearing after berserker rage. Teleport from max range when he bladestorms and kite with CoEx. Switch back to CoE when you can't kite. Read strats on defensive stance below.

Prot warrior:
Medium difficulty

It is very important that you have your pet on passive. If he blocks/dodges/parries an attack from your pet, it triggers revenge. It is easy to kite a prot warrior with CoEx because of their limited snares, do this during shield wall at least and just run. The felhunter can use spell lock to take care of his spell reflect and dispel the shield bash silence. If you use Voidwalker be aware that he can dispel sacrifice with shield slam, so have other magical buffs on you as well if you use it. Usually you take care of his Spell reflect with a quick Drain life which you cancel immediately, or with CoE.

Ret/prot paladin:
Easy difficulty

Use felhunter, devour magic on autocast. Place pet away from you on passive before duel starts or it can die from aoe damage. Start with CoE and howl. If he trinkets, fear, then dot. Trinket the stun. Kite with CoEx. Interrupt his heals. Death coil/fear during wings. Run when he bubbles.

Unholy DK:
Hard difficulty
Rondom vid: http://youtu.be/WBKxkp1k9pI
Use Demon armor and felhunter on agressive to get rid of bone shield. Dispel chains of ice as soon as the duel starts. ALWAYS have corruption on his pets. When he pops anti-magic shell, teleport away from max range and RUN so he cant death grip you. After AMS is over, silence him as you cast haunt/UA to prevent death grip and fear before he gets to you. Death coil him when he pops lichborne (if your hp is not full). When he summons gargoyle, always have corruption and CoT on it. You should have 3 corruptions up now (gargoyle, ghoul and DK), This is very important in order to win. Silence and fear him at the same time to prevent mind freeze. Shadow ward whenever its available. Dispel strangulate. Dispel mark of blood vs blood DKs.

Hunter:
Medium difficulty

Use voidwalker. Constantly run towards him while using CoA, Corruption, and try to get a fear and haunt off. When he does Deterrence is a good time to do Corruption on his pet. Use Death coil to get closer to him. Felhunter can be used to dispel silencing shot and freezing trap.

Elemental shaman:
Easy difficulty

Use felhunter and Fel armor. Always have CoT on him and only interrupt his nature spells. Dispel flame shock as soon as he starts casting lava burst. If he starts to run away or behind pillars, chase him with CoEx as usual. Take care of grounding totem with any curse (faster GCD)

Enhancement shaman:
Hard difficulty

Use felhunter and demon armor. He will do lots of damage so you need that extra armor and healing. Use howl of terror when he pops wolves and always keep corruption on them, otherwise you will lose. Try to teleport away and kite him(dispel frost shock immediately) at least while he have wolves up. They heal him so much that theres no way you will get him low during that time. Silence him as you cast fear/haunt to prevent his interrupt. Cast instant shadow bolts immediately or else he will purge it. Destroy tremor totems before you fear, however a skilled enh shaman will spam it, making it hard to fear him and win. Take care of grounding totem with any curse (faster GCD).

Rogue:
Medium difficulty

Normally I use fel armor, CoA, and voidwalker but Succubus is probably better against subtlety since they do almost all damage in stunlock while you have no dots on him, so seduction doesn't break.Trinket kidney shot and immediately corruption (in case he does vanish), then howl him and start casting fear in case he trinkets howl, but cancel it if he doesn't, and dot him. Death coil and fear him after the second stunlock. Use as much resilience as you can vs rogues.

Feral druid:
Easy difficulty
Random vid: http://youtu.be/hK0v6bEzWvs
Demon armor is a absolute must here. use voidwalker, and CoE. Howl before dotting, If he trinkets it, fear. If berserk, death coil him and immediately Haunt. Spam drain life and refresh haunt/UA. Use VW shield when you get low. Fear when berserk is over. Glyph of soul link makes it a lot easier to draintank him which is the key to winning here, you can't kite him because he will just shapeshift out of shadowflame snare if you use that glyph.

Balance druid:
Easy difficulty

Use felhunter and fel armor. Use CoE and fear before dotting. Howl of terror on treants. Fear/death coil him when he pops starfall (CC disables starfall). Interrupt his nature spells. A better moonkin will try to run away from you with travel form and heal. It's important that you do not allow him to get away, so chase him with CoEx and spam it if he spams travel form. Have pet on passive so it doesn't take extra damage from starfall in melee range, but send your pet after him when he runs so you can interrupt his heal. Keep in mind that the pet often dies from starfall. Dispel his roots/dots.

Destro warlock:
Hard difficulty

Use felhunter on passive and fel armor. Have pet away from you so he can't shadowfury/howl of terror it along with you. Dispel shadowfury/fear/immolate. Run up to him as you cast CoE/corruption (on his pet too) and howl of terror him with his pet. Dot him up and then banish the pet while it's feared so it can't interrupt you. He will do a lot of damage so interrupt his fire spells only. If you can Los him with dots on him and his pet you can easily kill his pet (twice) while being healed by siphon life.

Frost mage:
Medium difficulty

Use felhunter on passive and fel armor. Use CoE (takes care of his extra spell resistances) and corruption while running towards him and use howl. If you cast searing pain right after howl, often they will trinket it and counterspell. Attempt to dispel his silence. Now you can cast shadow spells freely. Else you must facecast, fear if he is close enough, otherwise, Haunt (every time his counterspell is ready). If he tries to polymorph you and kill pet, dispel poly asap and health funnel it to full hp always. If he have other debuffs on you already, interrupt his polymorph since you probably wont be able to dispel poly then. Corruption and CoA on his water elemental. Dispel his frost novas. Interrupt his frostbolt when you are frozen or if you are in poly and is killing your pet. Interrupt his evocation asap or CC him if it's on CD.

Fire mage:
Easy difficulty

Pet on aggressive. Devour magic yourself whenever you can. Don't let him get close, teleport away (dragons breath/blast weave). Interrupt his fire spells (mainly scorch) Else same as frost.

Shadow Priest
Easy difficulty

Use felhunter and fel armor. Have pet away from you so it can dispel his fear/silence. Begin with CoE and Fear him (2 times fast if he has fear ward) Teleport away when he gets close to avoid his fear. Best spells to interrupt is vampiric touch and his heals. If he tries to run away, chase him with CoEx. When he does dispersion, renew UA, mana drain him and fear him if he gets close as he will likely fear you when dispersion ends, also don't waste haunt on him during dispersion. Pop shadow ward whenever it's available. Drain soul immediately when he gets below 25% hp.