Warlock PvE Rotations (Affliction and Destruction)

[Feenixx]

Alright guys, I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this type of post, but here goes.

I play a warlock, but was unsure about what rotation would be effective to increase my DPS output with affliction and Destruction. After testing for awhile, I found it to be this.
Destruction:
1. I find it best to START off with soul fire, for the haste buff.
2. Immolate
3. Chaos bolt
4. Conflagrate
5. Incinerate until conflagrate again.
6. Conflagrate
7. Soul fire again for haste buff.
Repeat.
If you feel it necessary, you can put on curse of elements right AFTER the first soul fire, but it is up to you.
Affliction:
1. Corruption/Soulfire. It depends on whether or not you specced in improve soulfire.
2. Agony
3. Unstable affliction
4. Haunt.
5. Use shadow bolt as your buffer spell.
6. Reapply your dots.
7. Repeat until the execution phase (Boss/mob is 25%)
8.You will replace step 5 with Drain Soul, since this will do 20k+ crits. Use Drain soul AFTER you apply your dots.
And that's it. If you are going to post, please do not post saying "LOL Everyone knows this, why did you post it?" or some nonsense like that. I felt this was necessary to help others. Thank you

[dayloon]

Thank you, very useful guide

[DK1989]

Destruction:
1. I find it best to START off with soul fire, for the haste buff.
2. Immolate
3. Chaos bolt
4. Conflagrate
5. Incinerate until conflagrate again.
6. Conflagrate
7. Soul fire again for haste buff.
Repeat.
If you feel it necessary, you can put on curse of elements right AFTER the first soul fire, but it is up to you.

Very nice guide, only thing I wonder is why do you Chaos Bolt before the spell haste from conflag? Also after that Im guessing you dont use Chaos Bolt after the initial? Or just didnt feel it was needed? (again, before or after conflag? lol)

*Just wondering cuz im affl for ever so Im just testing waters with Destro (wannabe mage spec to me ^.^)

[Feenixx]

Very nice guide, only thing I wonder is why do you Chaos Bolt before the spell haste from conflag? Also after that Im guessing you dont use Chaos Bolt after the initial? Or just didnt feel it was needed? (again, before or after conflag? lol)

*Just wondering cuz im affl for ever so Im just testing waters with Destro (wannabe mage spec to me ^.^)

Well you see, you want to use the buff from conflag for incinerate. Using chaos bolt and conflag right after it= Great burst. Thanks for asking, now you know :P

[TheGreatRowaH]

According to elitistjerks, you must also cast corruption and bane of agony for optimal DPS, and that's where it fudges everything up.

[Feenixx]

According to elitistjerks, you must also cast corruption and bane of agony for optimal DPS, and that's where it fudges everything up.

I Dont follow elitist jerks. I felt like posting a rotation that seemed to work that was simple yet efficient

[Teliko]

Destro

Glyphs

Prime

Glyph of Immolate
Glyph of Conflagrate
Glyph of Incinerate

Major

Glyph of Life Tap
Glyph of Soul Link
Glyph of Fear

Curse of the Elements
Soulburn
Soul fire
Immolate
Bane of Doom
Conflagrate
Chaos Bolt
Incinerate
Incinerate
Corruption

Keep Immolate, Corruption and Bane of Doom up, keep Conflagrate and Soulburn on cooldown.


Affliction

Glyphs

Prime

Glyph of Haunt
Glyph of Corruption
Glyph of Unstable Affliction

Major

Glyph of Soul Swap
Glyph of Fear
Glyph of Soul Link

I haven't played much PvE Affliction this expansion so feel free to critique, but this has been going well for me so far. Although a common tactic is to Drain Soul when the target is below 25% health, it no longer does this. I'm not sure weather this makes Drain Soul unviable or if it should replace Shadow Bolt while the talent Shadow and Flame is still up, I haven't done a dps test yet, but right now I just continue casting Shadow Bolt in between DoT refreshes.

Curse of the Elements
Soulburn
Soul Fire
Unstable Affliction
Haunt
Corruption
Bane of Agony

At this point you need to just keep track of your DoTs. Keep Unstable Affliction and Bane of Agony up, keep Haunt and Soulburn -> Soul Fire on cooldown. You shouldn't need to touch corruption as it refreshes when you cast Haunt.