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PvP · Affliction Level 60 · 48 / 3 / 0 · Affliction 48 · Demonology 3 · Destruction 0

Level 60 Affliction Warlock PvP build for damage over time, Curse of Exhaustion kiting and drain recovery. Nightfall provides instant Shadow Bolt opportunities, with a small Demonology health investment. Load the level-60 build in the calculator to adjust it for your gear and group.

Level-30 beta Warlock Affliction PvP build

Level-30 Affliction PvP · 21 / 0 / 0 · 21 standard talent points. Reviewed 13 October 2026.

Amplify Curse satisfies Curse of Exhaustion, giving the build a kiting tool alongside instant Corruption, Siphon Life and channel support. Life Tap and Soul Harvest investment support resources, but recovery still competes with pressure and positioning.

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Beta talent allocation: 21/0/0

Affliction: 21 points

Talent	Rank	Effect at this rank
✦ Improved Life Tap	2/2	Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 20%.
✦ Improved Corruption	5/5	Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
✦ Soul Harvest	2/2	Killing a non-trivial target afflicted by your Drain Soul increases your Mana regeneration by 100% for 10 sec and allows 100% of normal Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
✦ Improved Drains	3/3	Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
✦ Fel Concentration	3/3	Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
✦ Amplify Curse	1/1	Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Bane of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
✦ Malevolence	1/5	Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 1%.
✦ Nightfall	2/2	Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
✦ Curse of Exhaustion	1/1	Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
✦ Siphon Life	1/1	Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.

How to play this beta version

1. Apply damage over time while keeping space from enemies that want melee combat.
2. Use Curse of Exhaustion when slowing the opponent is more valuable than another Curse.
3. Use Drain Life in a useful channel window and manage Life Tap around incoming damage.

What changes from the 51-point build?

• Wrack is unavailable at this budget.
• Fel Concentration helps damage-related channel disruption, not immunity to an enemy interrupt or silence.

For less contested PvE fights, the Affliction group variant restores Suppression and additional Malevolence ranks instead of the kiting chain.

Why this beta talent split?

Siphon Life stays alongside Curse of Exhaustion and channel support. Demonology Stamina can improve durability and Destruction Bane can shorten casts, but their five-point dips give up the recovery spell and several pressure ranks.

Level-60 Warlock Affliction PvP build: 51 points

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Affliction PvP at a glance

How to play Affliction PvP

Apply Corruption and other relevant Affliction effects to targets your team wants to pressure. Use Curse of Exhaustion against opponents you need to kite, then move between safe drain channels. Siphon Life is a separate damage-and-healing spell in this snapshot. Nightfall makes the next Shadow Bolt instant, but does not remove its Mana cost. Avoid applying damage over time to targets reserved for breakable crowd control, and use Life Tap when your health and healer support allow it.

Related planning: Read the PvP guide, open the Warlock talent calculator, or review the class changes before you finalize the build.

Affliction PvP talent allocation and effects

Affliction (48 points)

Talent	Rank	Effect
✦ Improved Life Tap	2/2	Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 20%.
✦ Suppression	5/5	Improves your chance to hit by 5% and reduces all threat you generate by 20%.
✦ Improved Corruption	5/5	Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
✦ Malediction	5/5	Increases all periodic damage done by your Warlock spells by 5%.
✦ Soul Harvest	2/2	Killing a non-trivial target afflicted by your Drain Soul increases your Mana regeneration by 100% for 10 sec and allows 100% of normal Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
✦ Improved Drains	3/3	Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
✦ Improved Bane of Agony	2/2	Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 10%.
✦ Fel Concentration	3/3	Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
✦ Amplify Curse	1/1	Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Bane of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
✦ Pandemic	3/3	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Corruption, Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom, Drain Soul, Drain Life, Siphon Life, and Wrack spells by 100%.
✦ Malevolence	5/5	Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 5%.
✦ Nightfall	2/2	Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
✦ Curse of Exhaustion	1/1	Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
✦ Siphon Life	1/1	Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
✦ Soul Siphon	3/3	Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 12% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 36%.
✦ Shadow Mastery	5/5	Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 5%.

Demonology (3 points)

Talent	Rank	Effect
✦ Demonic Embrace	3/5	Increases your total Stamina by 9%.

Why Affliction PvP takes these talents

Amplify Curse is required for Curse of Exhaustion. Soul Siphon improves the listed drain spells according to the other Affliction effects active on the target; it does not turn every damage-over-time effect into healing. Shadow Mastery increases Shadow damage, and Fel Concentration helps protect drain channels from damage pushback. With only three points in Demonic Embrace and no Soul Link, positioning remains a major part of survival.

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More builds to try

Playing a different class? These pvp builds from other classes follow a similar role: Mortal Strike PvP (Warrior), Holy Shock Hybrid (Paladin), Retribution Crusader (Paladin).

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