Affliction Warlocks

RANT:
Afflocks are still king in 3.3.3!

Honestly, if you are a Destro Warlock and are pumping out 6-8k DPS, switch to AFFMODE!!

Your DoTs are more helpful than your Direct Damage in ICC.

Furthermore, Survivability is a HUGE benefit in ICC due to the massive AoE damage in that frozen-over hellhole. Affmode provides that! :)

Try this spec out if you've never tried Affliction before.

Explanation:
~ This is the most commonly accepted Affliction spec and is my personal preference to raiding. It offers the best survivability in ICC for the Warlock class and still pumps out the DPS required for all of the fights.
~ Very powerful Seeds of Corruption
~ Extreme Health Regeneration
~ Powerful DoTs

Rotation:
The combat rotation is fairly simple and you can really go about it however you want.
~ The most common rotation is: Haunt, UA, Corruption, CoA, SB ~~~

I hate that.
I do it differently.

~ The very first thing I like to do is cast Curse of Agony because it has the longest duration.
~ Then I cast Unstable Affliction, Corruption, and then Haunt (yes, you do miss out on a few initial boosted DoT ticks but that's ok)

~ My Rotation: CoA, UA, Corruption, Haunt, SB ~~~

Reasoning:
~ By the time UA and Haunt are reapplied, CoA has about 6 seconds left and is doing it's maximum DPS. This technique allows me to focus directly on CoA's timer without having to worry about anything else! You do not want to cut the last few ticks of CoA short because CoA escalates it's damage over the duration. The last few seconds are doing the most damage.
~ After CoA is reapplied, you have free-time to launch a bunch of Shadow Bolts and Insta-Bolts without having to worry about your Global Cooldown messing up your DoT casts.
~ Haunt and UA will be coming up next in the rotation, after those are cast, you should have about 6 seconds of Shadow Bolts before your next CoA.

It's like having 2 phases - DoT phase and Bolt phase.

The "common rotation" is theory crafted for maximum flawless DPS in a perfect world, which we all know doesn't ever happen. It sets the DoT re-casts between Shadow Bolts and can really get confusing, costing you a major DPS loss if you lose track. You will be reapplying DoTs individually between your Shadow Bolts in other words. While that may be appealing to some, it is definitely not the way I like to roll.

But it's really up to your style of play and I encourage you to try both or make up your own.

Add-on Extreme

When it comes to Warlock Add-ons, there are a few that stand out and scream "YES!!"
And I shall list them here:

ForteXorcist - This puppy is superbly crafted by an expert and personally I believe it knocks the old DoTimer out of the water. Shard Management, Spell Timer, Summon Helper... This is my number 1 recommended Warlock Add-on.

VuhDo - While this is generally a healer tool, you can use this to assign your puppy's Devour Magic spell to a mouse click, making Warlock dispels easy as pie.

Macaroon offers a huge benefit for macro users but I've noticed some instability with the scripting and this is probably best left to the advanced users. Bartender4 however is extremely easy to use, but it lacks in customization.

Pitbull4 - Hands down greatest Unit Frame Add-on to date. The author is very humble in the sense that this has been in Beta for about a year now but I've never found a single bug. It is very light weight and extremely helpful.

Add-ons make World of Warcraft a better place.
Especially for the best classes ;)

All Abooooooard!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Hi and Welcome to my blog!

Allow me to start with introductions; My name is Avernus of Antonidas and I am a Warlock.
I've been a Warlock for about 3 years and I consider myself well-versed in the art of Shadow and Flame. I am currently Raiding ICC with one of my favorite guilds of all time, Ruin from Antonidas.

Ruin has been around for as long as I can remember and some of the best players on our server have gathered there. But enough about that. This is about ME!

I'll be posting some guides and speculations on a regular basis so stay tuned.