The Naked Fear

ALRIGHT LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Affliction 3.3 Spec being posted!
This may change depending on if blizz changes any talents or glyphs before the 3.3 release... if they do i will change the post accordingly.

I will also put the 3.2 Spec in a following post if anyone wants to go affliction before the patch

1. Talent Spec...
With Suppression (14% hit cap)
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#IfxbbzMAoiAoIktZE00V
If you noticed the lack of lifetap talent, its due to the fact that in 3.3 affliction locks use dark pact (glyph of lifetap procs with darkpact)

Without (17% hit cap)
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#IbxbbuMAoiAoIktZE00V

there isnt a dps difference between the 2 so i suggest getting the suppression spec and getting more DPS gear vs hit gear. Basically a choice of hit vs less channel dmg when hit (which you shouldnt be getting hit anyways)

Glyphs for affliction are as follows
Glyph of Lifetap
Glyph of Haunt
Glyph of Quick Decay

Stats
List of DPS increasing stats
Hit Rating till cap
Spell Power
Haste
Spirit
Crit

You want to gem mostly +23 SP unless the socket bonus is like 6+ SP then you want to do hybrid. 12 SP + 10 haste and 12 SP + 10 spirit are the gems i usually go for.

Enchants are the same with the exception of weapon... as of 3.3 black magic will proc on harmful spells increasing haste by like 250... its is still undetermined whether or not this beats 63 SP to weapon for Affliction Warlocks due to the fact dots do not get benefits from haste except for corruption, and corruption doesnt get the benefit from the proc if alrdy applied. (Way to circumvent that is to reapply corruption and try to keep it up the whole fight be using haunt every 8 seconds to keep it refreshed)
More on this later as people do more theory crafting

Rotation is Haunt, Corruption, Curse of Agony (Elements if there isnt a similar spell effect in the raid), and Unstable Affliction. You then shadowbolt spam while your dots do their thing. when your dots are about to start falling off time your casts to reapply them so that they are applied just as the dots fall off. This is an ideal case do not "clip" your dots (aka apply them before they fall off) as this is a dps loss. Now when the boss gets at or below 25% health you will use Drain Soul instead of shadowbolts. Priority is still to keep dots refreshed as you drain soul, if you must stop casting drainsoul do so, dots always have top Priority. You also want to keep lifetap glyph going through out the fight, getting mana back when needed should keep the buff up. You will not have to use lifetap and can instead use Dark Pact as it will refresh the buff and your felhunter will not run out of mana.

The warlock pet to use in 3.3 will (if you read the above) obviously be felpuppy. The dmg it does as affliction will outdo any of the other regular demons. (not sure about doomguard or infernals as of right now)

Did some testing and found that with the new triple stack of Shadow Embrace your dps will climb faster if you do 2 shadow bolts then haunt curse corruption unstable afflict at the start of the fight. It is then just regular rotation through out the fight. Also 19k drain souls what? yea afflict rulez

Dark Pact has a 100 yd cast range and goes thru LOS now, so its OP, and the 4 set for tier 10 is OP GET IT xD. Also there is a new addon im using to replace dot timer, called FortExorcist. its a CD and Spell timer, with alot of customization, and cool stuff. It can track what locks use soulstones (if they have the addon), can track healthstones, even has a summoning list that tells you who is not in the instace. And did i mention the spelltimer is GORGEOUS yea, its amazing, takes half the room dot timer does xD

kinda sux that i wrote this entire post and then like all the main raiding warlocks quit or left... makes me sad

In anticipation, (ok, it's cuz I was getting downloads and thought 3.3 was already here), I respecced using the suppression spec.

Morgi, you mentioned Warlock addons I should be using, but I couldn't hear the name of em. Got a list that would help?

Thx

Dot timer (to track dots, not needed but nice)

Necrosis... GODLY <_< lemme repeat G + O + D + L + Y

and of course Omen you want it out at all times during a raid in a prominent spot because eventually you will be riding some tanks threat.

bout it. if ya need help setting up necrosis or dot timer whisper me =P

Thank you very much.

Ok, what about pvp? Got any recommendations? Afflic is best pvp spec atm, right? And I would imagine improved fear/howl of terror, or w/e the improvements are in the talent tree, would be highly recommended...

ill create the spec shortly here

Awesome, I can go look one up, but I know you pvp some, and a lot of sites still don't have updates for the latest patches.

Thank you!