Affliction Warlock endgame PvE build (31/0/20)

How to play it

• Bane of Agony, Corruption, Siphon Life, Wrack on cooldown, Shadow Bolt filler with Nightfall procs; Improved Shadow Bolt debuffs the target for the raid's Shadow casters.
• Suppression is 5% hit and 20% less threat; with Salvation gone that threat reduction matters.

Talents taken

Affliction (36)

• 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%.
• Improved Drains 2/3: Increases Health drained, damage done, or Mana drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana spells by 13%.
• 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 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%.
• 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.

Destruction (15)

• Improved Shadow Bolt 5/5: Your Shadow Bolt critical strikes increase Shadow damage taken by the target from your attacks by 20% for 12 sec.
• Bane 5/5: Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.
• Cataclysm 3/3: Reduces the Mana cost of your Destruction spells by 10%.
• Ruin 2/5: Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 40%.

Point order by level

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