Affliction Warlock Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Affliction Warlock Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Corruption damage increased by 25%. Agony damage increased by 15%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Each active Unstable Affliction increases your damage dealt by your spells and abilities by 2%, up to 6%. Seed Of Corruption Applies Unstable Affliction at 20% effectiveness to your target.

Tier Set Discussion:

The 2 set serves as a nice passive damage bonus.

The 4 set, while it reads as very powerful, has forced changes to crucial talents in the affliction tree, making it substantially less exciting than it looks. However, it does provide good funnel damage in Mythic+.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Affliction Warlock, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

It currently looks like there are 2 trinkets that you really want to get your hands on as an Affliction Warlock in Midnight Season 2:

• Stormbound Emblem Of Dazar is the best 2 minute cooldown trinket for us, lining up with our Summon Darkglare this will be a great trinket to aim for early. As it is a channelled trinket, the best way to use it is just before pressing Darkglare.
• Wavecaller's Seastone is the best passive trinket, with its stacking and diminishing intellect buffs it on average provides a great amount of intellect.

Honorable mentions:

• Freightrunner's Flask is a great alternative for an on use trinket, despite it being a 1 minute 30 cooldown lining up large amounts of crit with your Summon Darkglare is very strong.
• Gebbo's Bottomless Bag is a great option for a passive trinket, providing consistent high secondary stats throughout the fight.
• Fang Of Umbral Malignance could be very good for dungeons as it does a lot of AoE damage.

The current best embellishments are 2x the Arcanoweave Lining; this Embellishment gives your damaging spells a chance to increase yours and an allies primary stat on proc. Ideally these are crafted on a cloak or bracers, however they can be on any cloth slot which you need at the time.

However for early crafting, I would suggest making a staff with the embellishment Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt because the best weapon from The Venomous Abyss drops from Ula’tek, so saving the crests early for prog is a high priority.

You can use this alongside another crafted item with Arcanoweave Lining on it, you can put this on any non-tier piece of gear that is a strong upgrade early into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the second week of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority items from Raid and which boss they drop from:

Below are the target items from Mythic+ and where they drop from:

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Affliction Warlock:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Self-Mending
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Critical Power
• Row 5: Rune Of Residual Energy

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.