Affliction Warlock Guide | <Progress> Hadoogin

Human

1) Gakin's Summons - Available from your trainer in Goldshire.
2) Head to Gakin the Darkbinder in the Mage Quarter Slaughtered Lamb, Stormwind.
3) Surena Caledon - You can find her at the farm southwest of Eastvale Logging Camp in Elwynn, you'll need to loot Surena's Choker.
4) The Binding - Summon and kill the Voidwalker in the Lamb's basement.

Gnome

1) The Slaughtered Lamb - From your trainer in the Forlorn Cavern at Ironforge.
2) Head to Gakin the Darkbinder in the Mage Quarter Slaughtered Lamb Stormwind
3) Surena Caledon - You can find her at the farm southwest of Eastvale Logging Camp in Elwynn, you'll need to loot Surena's Choker.
4) The Binding - Summon and kill the Voidwalker in the Lamb's basement.

Orc & Troll

1) Gan'rul's Summons - from Ophek in Razor Hill.
2) Head to Gan'rul Bloodeye in the Cleft of Shadow, Orgrimmar.
3) Creature of the Void - Head to Skull rock, its the cave east of orgrimmar's gate. Once inside, hug right (or left if you can do the jump at the end) and loot the tiny chest at the end of the cave.
4) The Binding - Head to the summoning circle in the hut next to Ragefire Cavern entrance and use the Glyphs of Summoning item provided to summon and kill the Voidwalker.

Undead

1) Halgar's Summons - Head upstairs at the Brill inn and grab the quest from Ageron Kargal.
2) Head to Carendin Halgar at the Mage Quarter in Undercity.
3) Creature of the Void - Egalin's Grimoire Is in a chest inside the scarlet tower to the left of Undercity. 4) The Binding - Use the Runes of Summoning item provided next to Carendin Halgar to summon and kill the Voidwalker.

Human / Gnome

1) Gnomes starts at Lago Blackwrench in The Forlorn Cavern, Ironforge. Humans go straight to Gakin the Darkbinder in the Mage Quarter Slaughtered Lamb, Stormwind.
2) Devourer of Souls - Gakin sends you to Takar the Seer in the Barrens, close to Camp Taurajo (49.2, 57.0)
3) Heartswood - Head to Maestra's Post in ashenvale it is south of the Darkshore / Ashenvale border. Head directly North East of Maestra's Post to The Ruins of Ordil'Aran and there you will find a tree you can interact with called "Heartswood" which is the item to complete that quest.
4) The Binding - Head back to Gakin in the Mage Quarter Slaughtered Lamb, Stormwind, summon and kill the succubus in the basement.

Orc / Troll

1) Devourer of Souls - Speak with Cazul.
2) Blind Cazul - Head to Zankaja the exit of the Cleft of Shadow (37, 59.6).
3) News of Dogran - Head to Gazrog at the Crossroads.
4) News of Dogran - Head to Ken'zigla in southern Stonetalon.
5) Ken'zigla's Draught - Head to Grunt Logmar at Camp Taurajo.
6) Dogran's Captivity - Head to Grunt Dogran, slightly north of Camp Turajo (43.2, 47.8).
7) Love's Gift - Head back to Orgrimmar.
8) The Binding - Go to Neeru Fireblade's Tent just outside Ragefire Chasm, use Dogran's Pendant that was provided to you to summon and kill the succubus.

Undead

1) Devourer of Souls - Head to Godrick Farsan, just north of Carendin.
2) Hearts of the Pure - Kill Dalin Forgewrite at the bottom of Silverpine around The Greymane Wall and Kill Comar Villard on the north entrance path in the Wetlands
3) The Binding - Go back to Carendin the Magic Quarter in Undercity, Summon the succubus at the summoning circle next to him and kill the succubus.

Incubus Quest:

Alliance

1) What is Love? - Get the quest from Takar the Seer in the Barrens, close to Camp Taurajo (49.2, 57.0)
2) Head to Maestra's Post in Ashenvale (26.4, 21.8), on the table next to the house grab the torch and light it either by making yourself a campfire or head to (14.8, 31.2) near The Zoram Strand where you can also find a campfire nearby accompanied by "Talen". Once lit throw the burning torch to the cart next to the table where you picked up the torch. Then run inside the house and head upstairs to loot the "Wooden Figureine" Then head back to Gakin in the Mage Quarter Slaughtered Lamb, Stormwind.
3) The Binding - Use the Wooden Figurine on the summoning circle to summon and kill the Incubus.

Horde - Initial quests are Picked up from respective class trainers can do either chain as any race.

Orgrimmar: 1) Love Hurts - Speak with Magar in Orgrimmar
2) Wish you were here - Head to the Fallen Sky Lake in Ashenvale close to the border of barrens ( and kill the Shadethicket mobs and loot "Withered Scarf" to complete the quest.
3) The Binding - Use the Withered Scarf to summon and kill the incubus.

Undercity:
1) Hearts of the Lovers - Head over to Ambermill in Silverpine Forest (63.4, 65.4), kill Avelina Lilly and loot "Avelina's Heart". Then head over to Ratchet in the Barrens (61.8, 38.6) to Kill Isaac Pearson and loot "Isaac's Heart".
2) The Binding - Use the "Lover's Hearts" to summon and kill the incubus.

Human / Gnome

1) Head over to Gakin the Darkbinder in the Mage Quarter Slaughtered Lamb, Stormwind
2) Seeking Strahad - Head over to Strahad Farsan in ratchet in the Barrens behind the goblin buildings on the hill. (62.6, 35.6)
3) Tome of the Cabal - Head over to Krom Stoutarm at the Halls of Explorers in Ironforge. (74.4, 9.4)
4) Tome of the Cabal - Retrieve the "Moldy Tome" and "Tattered Manuscript", you will find the Moldy Tome west of Southshore in Hillsbrad Foothills (27.8, 72.8), you may utilize your voidwalker to send your pet on the murlocs to buy you enough time to loot the tome, or kill the murlocs. The Tattered Manuscript is inside Splithoof Hold in Thousand Needles (44.3, 36.8), go inside the cave and stick to the right at every fork and loot the "Damaged Chest" on the ground.
5) Tome of the Cabal - Loot 3x "Rod of Channeling" from Dragonmaw Bonewarders and Dragonmaw Shadowwarders in the Dragonmaw Camp, Wetlands. (48, 46) Then head back to Strahad Farsan in Ratchet to hand in the quest. (62.6, 35.6)
6) The Binding - Follow Strahad Farsan he will place a summoning circle on the ground, use the "Tome of the Cabal" to summon and kill the Felhunter. Wait for Strahad Farsan to walk back then you will be able to hand in the quest.

Orc / Troll / Undead

1) Orcs and Trolls start at Gan'rul Bloodeye in the Cleft of Shadow, Orgrimmar, Undeads start at Carendin Halgar at the Mage Quarter in Undercity, both quests are called Seeking Strahad.
2) Seeking Strahad - Head over to Strahad Farsan in ratchet in the Barrens behind the goblin buildings on the hill. (62.6, 35.6)
3) Tome of the Cabal - Head over to Jorah Annison in the Mage Quarter, Undercity. (75, 37)
4) Tome of the Cabal - Retrieve the "Moldy Tome" and "Tattered Manuscript", you will find the Moldy Tome west of Southshore in Hillsbrad Foothills (27.8, 72.8), you may utilize your voidwalker to send your pet on the murlocs to buy you enough time to loot the tome, or kill the murlocs. The Tattered Manuscript is inside Splithoof Hold in Thousand Needles (44.3, 36.8), go inside the cave and stick to the right at every fork and loot the "Damaged Chest" on the ground.
5) Tome of the Cabal - Loot 3x "Rod of Channeling" from Dragonmaw Bonewarders and Dragonmaw Shadowwarders in the Dragonmaw Camp, Wetlands. (48, 46) Then head back to Strahad Farsan in Ratchet to hand in the quest. (62.6, 35.6)
6) The Binding - Follow Strahad Farsan he will place a summoning circle on the ground, use the "Tome of the Cabal" to summon and kill the Felhunter. Wait for Strahad Farsan to walk back then you will be able to hand in the quest.

Some new changes including a new talent capstone Wrack which is a channeled spell on the target that increases the damage the target takes from your shadow damage over time effects by 10%. Changes to warlock weapon imbues, Create Spellstone Major Spellstone now increases your spell haste by 2% and the damage done by your shadow spells up to 21 for max rank, Create Firestone Major Firestone now increases your spell critical strike chance by 2% and the damage done by your fire spells by up to 21 for max rank.

By this point we should have some crit, some decent amount of spell power and be lvl 52.
It is time to take the previously skipped Wrack, Pandemic and then you have 4 points left. We'd recommend Suppression, Improved Life Tap, Grim Reach or Nightfall based on your playstyle. You can also opt into more stamina or Fel Domination for pvp.

Affliction has always been the premier leveling choice for warlocks, and is alongside Demonology alternative, the guide we would recommend for warlocks. It focuses heavily on Drain Life and all the synergies around it. We are keeping up Corruption Bane of Agony Siphon Life and just draining the life of our enemies. This alongside Life Tap means we basically never have to drink and eat, which makes our uptime extremely efficient.

In the early levels Lesser Magic Wand carries the rough start for warlocks and we keep using Immolate for quite some time.

Summon Voidwalker has been improved, but since we are not speccing into it, it will not be very good at keeping aggro. You can choose for yourself between Imp and Void, based on DPS requirement and comfort. If you just want a chill laid back experience, voidwalker is the play.
At lvl 20 we gain access to a much stronger pet Summon Succubus, which will stay with us for the majority of the journey. It has very strong dps, and by early 30s we can already comfortably face tank everything, so there isn't a need for pet tank on normal mobs any more, for elites and hard hitting mobs you should have a Voidwalker ready.

We start by taking Improved Corruption 5/5, Suppression 4/5 followed by Improved Drains 3/3 and Fel Concentration 3/3. Before this point using drain life isn't really efficient due to pushback, Fel Concentration will reduce the pushback up to 70% when fully picked.

Soul Harvest is not good enough early, but it becomes very nice once around lvl 35- 40, once we can proc it with rank 1 drain soul which doesnt take any mana. If you want it, take points from Suppression.

Pandemic is a great talent they brought from Wrath, but due to our low crit % during leveling, its not good enough. It will be mandatory in raid and dungeon variants.

Improved Bane of Agony 2/2 and Malevolence 5/5 are both great dps increases so we take both.

Improved Life Tap, Suppression, Grim Reach, Curse of Exhaustion and Nightfall are all decent quality of life picks, especially Curse of Exhaustion and Nightfall if you want to do a lot of PvP. You can take points from Suppression for any of these.

We also take Soul Siphon 3/3 which boosts our drain damage.

Shadow Mastery for mandatory 5/5 shadow damage.

Wrack is not good enough and it takes a rotation spot of a "drain", so we skip it. If you want to do a lot of pvp, it can be great ability to add the burst with all the dots, but in many cases, it will still be better to just Drain Life.