Affliction Warlock leveling build (10–60)

How to play it

• Voidwalker tank, Corruption (instant with 5/5 Improved Corruption), Bane of Agony, wand. Soul Harvest at 15–16 refunds mana on Drain Soul kills, so finish every mob with Drain Soul.
• Siphon Life at 30 and Soul Siphon turn Drain Life into a heal that scales with your dots: pull two or three mobs and drain while the Voidwalker holds one.
• Wrack at 40 (the old Drain Hope) is a channeled nuke that was buffed hard at launch. Nightfall for instant Shadow Bolts.
• Demonology after 51 points: Demonic Embrace for 15% Stamina, Unholy Power for pet damage, Demonic Energies to heal the pet with your spells.

Talents taken

Affliction (36)

• Suppression 3/5: Improves your chance to hit by 3% and reduces all threat you generate by 12%.
• Improved Corruption 5/5: Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
• Grim Reach 2/2: Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 20%.
• 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, damage done, or Mana drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana spells by 20%.
• Improved Bane of Agony 1/2: Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 5%.
• Fel Concentration 3/3: Gives your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
• 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 1/3: 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 33%.
• Malevolence 3/5: Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 3%.
• 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%.
• 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 10%.
• Wrack 1/1: Tears the target apart from within, inflicting 86 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10% for 6 sec.

Demonology (15)

• Demonic Embrace 5/5: Increases your total Stamina by 15%.
• Unholy Power 5/5: Increases all damage done by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter pets by 10%.
• Improved Voidwalker 1/3: Increases the effectiveness of your Voidwalker's Torment, Consume Shadows, Sacrifice, and Suffering spells by 10%.
• Fel Vitality 3/3: Increases the maximum health and Mana of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter by 15%, and increases your maximum Mana by 15%.
• Demonic Energies 1/2: You heal your pet for 8% of all spell damage you deal. When you gain Mana from Life Tap, your summoned demon gains 50% of the Mana you gain.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).