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When starting as a warlock, the talent build is one thing that you need to set right first because it will affect the rest of your warlock's life. A warlock has three talent trees that you can focused on; this guide will cover the affliction tree.

Don't go starting a warlock without proper talent build planned; you will need the right one in order to survive and crushing your adversaries. Just like other classes, you can focus on one of the three talent trees; for this warlock guide, I will focus on affliction warlock.

This type of Warlock focus on DoT (Damage over Time) to destroy their adversaries while mixing some talents from other tree such as Demonic Embrace to increase survivability. Haunt is your bread and butter spell; it comes with three devastating effects: shadow damage, raising all DoT damage, and add the damage dealt to your health; complement it with Life Tap and you will get a killer combination. These are other talents that you need to get:

1. Improved Curse of Agony; enhance this spell damage by 10%

2. Suppression; enhance hit % and reduce mana cost.

3. Improved Corruption; boost your corruption damage by 10%.

4. Improved Drain Soul; return 15% mana when you kill using Drain Soul.

5. Amplify Curse; lessen curse's cooldown.

6. Fel Concentration; just as prerequisite for the next talent.

7. Nightfall; give you chance to enter Shadow Trance state.

8. Empowered Corruption; increase your corruption spell.

9. Shadow Embrace; great for DPS and debuff.

10. Siphon Life; kinda like Vampiric effects back in Warcraft 3.

11. Improved Felhunter; regain mana ability for your pet, good when pairing with Dark Pact.

12. Shadow Mastery; boost your Shadow spell damage or life drain by 15%.

13. Eradication; probability to boost spell casting speed.

14. Contagion; power up your DoT and make it even harder to debuff.

15. Dark Pact; use it on your pet to gain some extra mana.

16. Malediction; increase your spell damage by 3% and increase periodic critical strike chance.

17. Death Embrace; having your health below 20% during raid is a must-to-avoid-at-all-cost situation so you might not need the drain life bonus, but the damage bonus will make the fight easier.

18. Unstable Affliction; another good DoT spell with nasty surprise for any player that dare to dispell it.

19. Pandemic; adding critical rate to your DoT.

20. Everlasting Affliction; restart your Corruption spells duration; this will make your opponent even more frustrated.

Mix several Demonology talents:

1. Improved Healthstone; increase the effect of your healthstone, merely for filler.

2. Demonic Embrace; boost your survivability from AoE attack.

3. Fel Vitality; increase your pet stats, useful for Dark Pact use.

There are many variations even among the Affliction focused tree itself; other World of Warcraft Warlock guide may suggest different Warlock talent build such as mixing Shadow Bolt to make better use of Nightfall talent, adding Immolate, etc. Simply by making use of the best suited build that match your playing style and your team skills, you can use your warlock at its full potential.