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So, what I've learned so far from the community (raid/dungeons, MrRobot, Icy-Veins) and from test-and-trial (and deaths) for Affliction Warlocks.

:::::::: Stats Priority ::::::::

Intellect > Mastery Rating > Haste Rating > Hit Rating (up to 15%) > Critical Strike

*Keep in mind of the breakpoints for Haste (extra tick and lower GCD)

:::::::: Rotations and rule of thumbs ::::::::

1. Don't add each DoT manually at the start of a fight because it will waste time. Instead, use the Soul Burn + Soul Swap combo to apply all DoTs at once.
2. Mind your DoTs timer and don't be afraid of applying them a bit early (reason: extended DoT time on the new one)
- Unstable Affliction is 14 seconds
- Corruption is 18 seconds
- Agony is 24 seconds
- Haunt (uses a Soul Shard) is 8 seconds
3. Don't forget about applying your Curses!
- Curse of the Elements should always be on bosses or trash that takes a while to die.

There's no set rotation but here's my rule of thumbs.

1. Start off with Soul Burn + Soul Swap combo to apply all DoTs at once.
2. If it is a boss, follow up by casting Curse of the Elements.
3. Cast Dark Soul: Misery
4. Cast Haunt
5. Cast Malefic Grasp

At this point... you'll be dancing around with your DoTs and Haunt (if soul shards are available). Keep in mind the timers (see above). For starters, I typically apply Unstable Affliction right after the first Malefic Grasp followed by 2 cast of Malefic Grasp and then reapply Corruption.

6. Cast Drain Soul instead of Malefic Grasp when the target is below 20% health. This will also refill all your shards.

:::::::: Useful Macros ::::::::

1 Button Malefic Grasp/Drain Soul button
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=target [modifier:shift] Drain Soul; Malefic Grasp

1 Button On-the-Run DoT reapplying by order of timer (click 3 times)
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=target Unstable Affliction, Corruption, Agony

** Other useful addition to the macros

Add in click trinkets to your macro buttons with:
/use 13
/use 14

Add in Pet attack to your macro buttons with (be careful with this since every time you use the macro your pet will attack whatever you're targeting):
/petattack

Add in option to target back to the last thing you were targeting:
/targetlasttarget

:::::::: More to come! ::::::::

:::::::: Talents ::::::::

*Please keep in mind that I use "Grimoire of Sacrifice[/b]" which means that the other talents will not include Pet enhancing talents.

Tier 1: Soul Leech, Your Shadow Bolt, Soul Fire, Fel Flame, Chaos Bolt, Touch of Chaos, Incinerate, Haunt, Drain Soul and Malefic Grasp spells heal you and your pet for a 10% of the damage dealt.
Reason for this pick: Heal as you DPS, Dark Regeneration can be useful as well.

Tier 2: Mortal Coil, Causes the enemy target to run in horror for 3 sec. The caster restores 15% of their maximum health.
Reason for this pick: You heal for 15% of your max health even if you can't really fear them.

Tier 3: Dark Bargain, Prevents all damage for 8 sec. When the shield fades, 50% of the damage prevented is dealt over 8 sec.
Reason for this pick: The other two talents utilizes your pet, which you will not have with this build.

Tier 4: Unbound Will, Purge all Magic effects, movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (Cost 20% of your base hit points)
Reason for this pick: Another get-out-of-stun or mc option, but you will most likely use this sparingly. As affliction, you will get a +50% bonus damage to Malefic Grasp, Drain Soul, Haunt, and Fel Fire.

Tier 5: Grimoire of Sacrifice, You sacrifice your demon to gain one of its abilities, increase the power of many of your single target spells by (Affliction 50%; Demonology 30%; Destruction 25%) and regenerate 2% of maximum health every 5 sec. Lasts for 1 hour.
Reason for this pick: Life regen and increased damage with spells.
Additional Information:
- If you sacrifice your Imp you will get Singe Magic: Burns harmful magic off the target, removing 1 harmful $89808lspell:spells; from a friend.
- If you sacrifice your Voidwalker you will get Shadow Bulwalk: Temporarily grants the Voidwalker 30% of their maximum health for 20 sec.
- If you sacrifice your you will get Shadow Bulwalk: Temporarily grants the Voidwalker 30% of their maximum health for 20 sec.
- If you sacrifice your Succubus you will get Seduction: Seduces the target, preventing all actions for up to 30 sec. Any damage caused will remove the effect. Only works against Humanoids.
- If you sacrifice your Felhunter you will get Spell Lock: Silences the enemy for 3 sec. If used on a casting target, it will counter the enemy's spellcast, preventing any spell from that school of magic from being cast for 6 sec.

Tier 6: Kil'Jaeden's Cunning, You can cast and channel while moving, but each cast reduces your movement speed by 15%, stacking up to 2 times.
Reason for this pick: Very helping in high movement fights with less loss in DPS (you can also walk and cast Unstable Affliction and other spells).

:::::::: Glyphs ::::::::

Major Glyphs

Glyph of Soul Swap: Your Soul Swap leaves your damage-over-time spells behind on the target you Soul Swapped from, but gives Soul Swap a 30 sec cooldown.
- Increase multiple targets damage

Glyph of Soul Shards: Increases your maximum Soul Shards by 1.
- Extra shard for Haunt and faster DoT application with Soulburn + Soul Swap

Glyph of Siphon Life: Your spell will heal you for 20% of the damage dealt.
- Increases your survivability

Minor Glyphs

*Mostly your choice, but Glyph of Nightmares (riding on water) and Glyph of Unending Breath (+20% swim speed) can help in questing

:::::::: Gems ::::::::

*Most Pandarian blue gems can be produced by the perfect version of its green gem (random proc)

Meta Socket: Burning Primal Diamond > Fleet Primal Diamond > Forlorn Primal Diamond (PvP gem) > Ember Primal Diamond

Prismatic Socket: Fractured Suns's Radiance or Perfect Fractured Sunstone > Sensei's Wild Jade or Perfect Sensei's Alexandrite = Artful Vermilion Onyx or Perfect Artful Tiger Opal > Quick Sun's Radiance or Perfect Quick Sunstone

Red Socket: Artful Vermilion Onyx or [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=76606]Perfect Artful Tiger Opal > Reckless Vermilion Onxy or Perfect Reckless Tiger Opal

Yellow Socket: Fractured Suns's Radiance or Perfect Fractured Sunstone > Quick Sun's Radiance or Perfect Quick Sunstone

*For Blue sockets, a good rule of thumbs is if the socket bonus is +60 Intellect, socket the gems below. If not, socket Fractured Suns's Radiance or Perfect Fractured Sunstone.

Blue Socket: Sensei's Wild Jade or Perfect Sensei's Alexandrite

:::::::: Enchants ::::::::

Shoulders: Greater Crane Wing Inscription > Crane Wing Inscription

Back/Cloak: Superior Intellect

Chest: Glorious Stats

Wrists/Bracers: Super Intellect

Hands/Gloves: Superior Mastery > Greater Haste > Superior Expertise

Legs/Pants: Greater Cerulean Spellthread > Cerulean Spellthread

Feet: Pandaren's Step

Weapon: Jade Spirit > Windsong > Elemental Force

Off-hand: Major Intellect > Superior Intellect

:::::::: Food, Flask, and Other ::::::::

Flask: Flask of the Warm Sun

Food: Mogu Fish Stew > Braised Turtle > Swirling Mist Soup