Affliction Warlock Midnight Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Stat Ranking

Current stat priority for Single Target is Crit > Haste = Mastery > Versatility

On AoE, haste becomes more valuable as it provides more shards, and you get more casts of the Seed Of Corruption.

On AoE, aim for Haste = Crit > Mastery > Versatility

However, stats always depend on the gear you have as well as diminishing returns; as such, I would suggest simming your character when possible to work out the stats your character specifically needs.

Stat Outline

There are no hard caps or anything like that for Affliction, but be aware of the diminishing returns that secondary stats have.

Intellect - Increases damage and other values on every spell.

Crit - Grants a chance to deal double damage on all spells.

Mastery (Mastery: Potent Afflictions) - Increases damage done by most of your main abilities.

Haste - Increases the amount of tics your DoTs deal per cast and makes your GCD and casts shorter.

Versatility - Flat increase to your damage, heal and reduce damage taken.

Haste becomes more beneficial in Mythic+ and boss fights, where it adds spawn, as it aids us in quickly DoTing everything, with Crit and Mastery being stronger in sustained encounters.

The best races for Affliction warlocks will be Orcs or their Mag’har alternative for Horde players and Mechagnome or (Dark Iron) Dwarf for Alliance players.

Best Horde Races for Affliction Warlock:

• Orc
• Mag’har Orc

Best Alliance Races for Affliction Warlock:

• Dwarf
• Mechagnome

Mag’har Orc and Mechagnome are the highest simming races respectively, but both types of Dwarves have a very strong racial ability to remove all poison, disease, curse, magic, and bleed effects on a 2min CD.

Head: Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune Of Avoidance

Shoulders: Enchant Shoulders - Amirdrassil's Grace

Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark Of The Worldsoul

Boots: Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity

Legs: Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Rings: Enchant Ring - Nature's Wrath

Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Acuity Of The Ren'dorei

You want to use 1x Powerful Eversong Diamond, which is a unique Gem that gives primary stat and a very small amount of critical strike effectiveness per unique Midnight gem color.

So once you have a Powerful Eversong Diamond in your gear, you should then ideally socket a combination of the following:

• 1x Flawless Masterful Garnet
• 1x Flawless Deadly Amethyst
• 1x Flawless Deadly Lapis
• 1x Flawless Deadly Peridot

Food: Royal Roast or Harandar Celebration

Flasks: Flask Of The Shattered Sun

Potions: Light's Potential

Health Potions: Silvermoon Health Potion

Weapon Oil: Thalassian Phoenix Oil

Runes: Void-Touched Augment Rune