Cooldan's Affliction Warlock PvP Build

Warlock class icon Affliction Warlock specialization icon
Affliction Warlock
Orc icon
Orc
589 ilvl
The War Within Season 1
1845 Rating in Solo Shuffle
1939 Rating in 2v2
1842 Rating in 3v3
1753 Rating in Blitz
384 Rating in RBG

Cooldan (Zuluhed EU) is a top 2v2 Affliction Warlock in World of Warcraft The War Within Season 1, achieving a rating of 1939 with 589 ilvl equipment.

Here is the breakdown of his 11.0 PvP character build, featuring stats, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems. Use this as a reference to enhance and inspire your own Affliction Warlock build.

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Stat Priority

Stats are crucial attributes that influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They determine the character's strength and overall playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various equipment pieces, consumables created by Alchemy, certain foods, some enchantments, and gems.

Each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. Optimizing a character's performance involves finding a balanced distribution. Here is how Cooldan's Secondary and Minor stats are distributed:

Secondary Stats

+0
5% Critical Strike
+10000
15% Haste
+3600
33% Mastery
+14005
18% Versatility
  1. Versatility
  2. Haste
  3. Mastery
  4. Critical Strike

Minor Stats

+0
0% Avoidance
+0
0% Leech
+1085
6% Speed
  1. Speed
  2. Avoidance
  3. Leech

Class Talents

Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Warlock specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Warlock class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Warlock's overall capabilities.

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Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Affliction Warlocks with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style.

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Hero Talents

Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Affliction Warlock class fantasy, enhancing character builds.

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PvP Talents

PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with war mode enabled, these talents optimize a Affliction Warlock's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players, reflecting the unique demands of PvP gameplay.

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Gear

Gear consists of items that directly determine a character's power level. It can be acquired from various sources: dungeons, raids, world drops, crafted through professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.

Each piece of gear significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here is Cooldan's gear for each equipment slot:

Embellishments

Embellishments are unique effects associated with crafted items, either as predefined elements in a recipe or added with an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.

Given that only a maximum of two embellished items can be equipped at a time, here are Cooldan's embellishments:

  1. Algari Competitor's Skewer icon
    Ascendance
  2. Algari Competitor's Cloth Sash icon
    Writhing Armor Banding

Enchantments

Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Back, Chest, Wrist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.

Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers.

Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here are the specific enchantments chosen by Cooldan for each equipment slot:

Gems

Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession that provide stat bonuses to improve gear and fine-tune character stats. These gems can be socketed into various item slots, including Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.

While the availability of sockets on these items is generally random when they drop, Head, Wrist, and Waist items can have a single socket added using the Nerubian Gemweaver , which costs 6 Algari Token of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.

Additionally, for non-PvP Neck and Rings items, sockets can be added with the Magnificent Jeweler's Setting . This item, crafted by Jewelcrafters, can increase the number of sockets to 2 for Neck and Rings slots.

Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, here are the gems currently socketed by Cooldan:

  1. Versatile Emerald icon
    Versatile Emerald
    2
  2. Cognitive Bloodstone icon
    Cognitive Bloodstone
    1
  3. Quick Onyx icon
    Quick Onyx
    1
  4. Quick Sapphire icon
    Quick Sapphire
    1