Soul Harvester Affliction Warlock PvP Guide For Blitz

Affliction Warlock
Soul Harvester
The War Within Season 2
Based on 50 Characters
From 2346 to 2889 Rating
Updated 5 hours ago
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Welcome to Murlok.io's PvP guide for Soul Harvester Affliction Warlocks in Blitz Battlegrounds. This guide covers the best stats, races, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems for Patch 11.1, based on data from the top 50 Soul Harvester Affliction Warlocks in The War Within Season 2 across the US, EU, KR, and TW regions. This includes Bwç (Aegwynn EU) , who is currently the highest-ranked with a rating of 2889.

Updated every 12 hours with the latest data from the Battle.net API , this guide also examines each character's recent playtime, specialization frequency, and equipment choices for greater accuracy.

Top Affliction Warlocks

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 the optimal way to balance Soul Harvester Affliction Warlock secondary and minor stats for Blitz:

Secondary Stats

+1032

6% Critical Strike

+15878

24% Haste

+2846

30% Mastery

+16126

21% Versatility

Versatility
Haste
Mastery
Critical Strike

Minor Stats

+27

0% Avoidance

+292

0% Leech

7% Speed

Leech
Avoidance
Speed

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. The following tree reproduces the in-game class talents disposition as a heatmap. Each color represents the usage frequency and general recommendation level of the talents:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Soul Harvester Affliction Warlocks with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. The following tree reproduces the in-game specialization talents disposition and shows the best talents as a heatmap:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Affliction Warlock class fantasy, enhancing character builds. The following trees show the Soul Harvester and Hellcaller hero talents as a heatmap, highlighting the most effective choices:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Soul Harvester

Hellcaller

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 Soul Harvester 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. The following shows the best PvP talents as a heatmap:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Best In Slot 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 are the top items for Soul Harvester Affliction Warlocks in Blitz, tailored for each equipment slot:

Head

Neck

Shoulders

Back

Chest

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

Rings

Trinkets

Main Hand

Off Hand

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 the best embellishments for Soul Harvester Affliction Warlocks in Blitz:

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 is a list of the top enchantments for Soul Harvester Affliction Warlocks in Blitz, essential for optimizing combat effectiveness: