Affliction Warlock Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Unstable Affliction and Seed Of Corruption damage increased by 10%
• (4) Set Bonus: Agony starts at 2 additional stacks, and its damage is increased by 20%

Tier Set Discussion:

Although this tier set is not very exciting, it is a good damage increase on both single target and AoE. There are no playstyle changes from having this tier set.

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:

• Emberwing Feather 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.
• Gaze Of The Alnseer is the best passive trinket, multiple procs in quick succession can quickly stack up how much intellect it is giving.

Honorable mentions:

• Vaelgor's Final Stare is a very powerful on use trinket, despite its 1 minute 30 second cooldown, it is best to hold it to use alongside Summon Darkglare every 2 minutes.
• Shadow Of The Empyrean Requiem is the best damage dealing trinket available, and is close to as good as Heart Of Wind alongside your on use trinket
• Heart Of Wind is a very strong passive trinket that can be farmed from the same dungeon, windrunner spire, as Emberwing Feather and is a great alternative to Gaze Of The Alnseer until you get it

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 and 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 only staff from raid drops from L’ura in midnight falls (March on Quel'Danas raid) and using a 1h and offhand is inefficient when spending crests. This will give you the most power gain when crafting early, then later you can look to swap.