I’m having a hard time AOE-ing in M+. What’s the best rotation for Affliction Warlock AoE in M+?
I know Affli is best at bosses/Single Target. I’ve noticed that aswell. Doing about 35/40k dps there with 393ilvl.
But I really struggle on the regular packs of mobs. I’m often down on the meters, sometimes even below a tank. Shoud I follow Icy Veins’ AoE rotation or is there a better way? Should I spam Seed of Corruption or use it only once to maintain the Corruption DoT. I know I have to have Agony up on as much targets as possible.
Spam seeds, throw up a Phantom Singularity on a mob that will live long and multi-dot each mob with agony.
Snipe any close to death mobs with drain to get more shards.
We were the masters of AOE in Legion because of our soul bomb artefact trait and improved damage to seeds. No longer sadly.
The best aoe rotation for affliction is to swap to demonology. Outside of that get used to doing absolutly no dmg outside of boss encounters. Especially when, and im sorry about this assumption, im guessing your running keys somewhere in the 6-9 range? The mobs in these lower keys dont have enough hp to be alive long enough for affliction can effectivly ramp up to do dmg, so sorry but affliction is next to useless. In higher keys where mobs live for a while and as long as the pack issent bigger than 5 mobs you can do some decent dmg after a while but overall you will still remain useless. If your hell bent on trying to make affliction work, talent phantom singularity and writhe in agony (in combination with 3 suddon onset azerite traits) as well as either 2/3 wracking brilliance traits and u might start dealing some dmg. Please please do not spec drain souls because the talent is a dps loss over not running any talent in that row. If your maintaining agony on 5 targets you will most likely generate soul shards faster than you can spend them, therefore trying to “snip” soulshards as OP said is pointless.
So to recap: get azerite gear with 3x suddon onset, 3x wracking brilliance, talent writhe in agony and phantom singularity and dot everything, cast seed when you have about 5-6 seconds left on your corruption, add one unstable affliction to each mob and refresh agony as it enters the respective pandemic windows. And while your doing all that, watch any other dps class (or demonology warlock) match or out dps you with one or two spells.