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Welcome to our Affliction Warlock DPS guide for World of Warcraft 4.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Affliction Warlock in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

All three Warlock specialisations are currently performing more or less evenly, in single target situations. In low movement encounters, Affliction may be slightly behind Demonology, but this is hardly ever the case. In multiple target situations, Affliction will still perform very well. It is only considerably surpassed by Demonology in very heavy AoE encounters.

Affliction Warlocks also bring various useful and generally underrepresented buffs and abilities to your raid group, making them a worthy addition.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Talents, Builds, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Consumables: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros an addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.