Just incase you still don't understand the orbs: the Orbs give you a debuff when they land that makes it so you take more dmg from the next orb. So the plan is that one immediatly gets exploded by not standing in it and the other gets staggered till the debuff runs out then you move out rinse and repeat till the fight ends

As a quality of life tip for the Warlock pet being dismissed at the start of keys. Use fell domination during your countdown before you activate the key, the buff carries over and it makes you able to insta summon pet right as it starts.

I look forward to this series every season. The fact that you do this on something you're not comfortable with makes it even better. Thanks for making these videos. I look forward to episode two.

This is so cool! I was kinda burned out of wow for a few monts and started again like two days ago. Instead of shaman I decided to level my, guess what, undead affliction warlock. Always loved your videos man, looking forward to following this series, as I struggle myself to get anywhere as an affli

Besides the not pressing Grimoire of Sacrifice throughout the video, you honestly did quite well for never having played (besides the like spamming unstable affliction but you acknowledged that so it's completely fine.) On AoE especially low keys all you really need to do is: Seed of Corruption > Unstable Affliction > Vile Taint > Soul Rot > Seed spam, and on low keys the pack should just explode. (Especially with the Soul Flame Talent where everything just explodes on death) In the above rotation you would use Darkglare after Soul Rot if you have it, but honestly with the talents you're running that expects you to be using the new tier Darkglare is pretty much a glorified DoT extender rather than a big damage cooldown like it was last tier with Neltharian trinket. As far as single target goes (that's honestly what I'm better at) Just get used to full dotting and keeping them up before worrying about anything else. Remember Malefic Rapture does more damage per DoT on the mob so maintaining the DoTs is the priority. Once you get that down, the key opener should be: Haunt > Unstable Affliction > Agony > Siphon Life > Corruption > Soul Drain to 3 stacks of it's buff (name is escaping me sorry) > Vile Taint > Soul Rot > Darkglare. Now it is a long list, but just remember all you're really doing is going down the list of your abilities and just pressing them one at a time. As far as shards go, just spend them more often. For most of the clips in the video you seemed to be sitting on 5 shards. Just spend all but one of them. because you don't have a designated builder and its more just chance until execute you wanna make sure you're not wasting a shard. But try to keep 1 at all times just in case. Especially if you're in Raid Setting and playing with the Dread Touch talent, as keeping that debuff up will be most of your damage. I am the worst explainer in the universe but I hope that some of this is understandable. Hope to see you succeed on what I think is the most fun spec in the game.

Warlock main here, Gate & Circle are incredible utilities that can skip certain packs in dungeons or help you reposition quickly. Some examples are putting your circle behind a wall or pillar to dodge LoS mechanics or avoid mob casts such as the grip from those mobs in Throne. Another way to use circle is to break roots & slows such as entangling, you don't even need to use soulburn to break entangling, which will save you a GCD & a shard.

Hi, random question.. Could you let me know the font you are using for your unitframes and nameplates in this video? They look really clean. I already grabbed your ElvUI and plater profiles from your discord but the fonts don't quite seem to match up with what's in this video. Thank you!

I've been playing Mage in Dragonflight and I raid lead as well. Been talking to my melee raiders about how much more friendly melee is this tier than pretty much any other time I've seen in WoW. I think your video really helps illustrate this point and I REALLY enjoy your narrative choices. You earned a new sub on a first view, I like the cut of your jib.

@Dillisan the orbs on chronolord are simple. One person runs out right away, the orb hits and soes damage, the other person stays in until the debuff drops from the first orb, the runs out. It only hurts if a second orb lamds before the debuff clears. The dbuff increases the damage you take from the orbs, so you just want the second orb to hit after the debuff falls off, which is 4 seconds long.

Great video , I really Enjoyed watching it , ty sir for upload

ayyo, u mind telling me what kind of weakauras ur running to make ur ui looks like that with the unitframes for example because i guess its not all elvui

9:30 Oh you sweet summer child. Where i come from behaviour like this is considered the pinnacle of politeness and good manners. Truly, your life must be blessed if this is the worst you encounter, thus you should cherish it.

amazing ep 1.. i cant wait to see what comes next!!

Yaaaaaaaay love these challenges! Btw, havent seen any of ur latest like 4 videos in my sub box! This one did tho

As a main Affliction I cannot hide the pain and misery while watching this video, keep it up!

Ayo! Nice first episode. Warlock seems like a tricky class to play with all the DoT management, but you got this EZ!

You want to make the no pet weak aura bigger and in the middle of your screen. The orbs in rise are easy, the one who stays in waits until the 4 second debuff drops off then moves out.

HOLY MOLEY DOUGHNUT SHOP!!! Hay buddy! you are top flight security guards! :)

Very fun to see. Nice job. Affliction is one of my favorites. About the rotation, I use Heikili. This addon almost always get it right.

I just found your channel, and I love your positivity!

do you have some kind of link to the plug ins you are using i like how clean your game looks

As affliction you get a fantastic bonus of not having to play a pet - summon the felhunter and then hit him with your grimoire of sacrifice, you get to keep the interrupt and then your abilities have a chance to do some additional dmg - no more wondering why your kick didn't go off because the felhunter is running across the map :D

What addon do you use for the hp bars? The one that shows your party's.

I just did an LFR raid for the first wing of Amirdrassil. Been getting back into tanking and I didn't do too well tbh. Got a whisper telling me I should unalive myself and just stick to watching others play. Easiest report of my life.

It's probably already been explained since I'm 7 days late, but when an orb in Rise hits the ground it does a group wide AoE and leaves a debuff that makes any other orbs do more damage. Standing in the orbs slows their falling speed, so one person moves out to make that orb drop quick and the second person stays in the orb until debuff clears so the second orb doesn't do a ton more damage.

Hey Dilly, I picked up Affliction warlock today too in some bizarre coincidence. One affliction newb to another, I suggest to take Grimoire atleast in the early dungeons, because of the whole pet shenaningans, and because, unless you actively need the interrupt from the felhound, the 10% extra damage just seems to do wonder.

I've been trying for that Arch-druid ring since the first week, so seeing you get it in your very first vault hurt 😅

Awsome video😃I can confirm there is alot of toxicity out there as a pug player, but there is also the oposite😀 been called alot of not so nice things but it is what it is

Your videos made me re-download WoW and go level just so I can get my itch out of the way, your videos are always so well made.

What is your addon for LFG, showing the classes of everyone in the group in the symbols?

As someone who also has ADHD and isn’t the best player watching you learn new specs and classes makes me feel a lot better about my own struggles

what addon do u use to show the specs in the LFG

What addons do you use? And also, if you get this question a lot, consider putting a simple addon list in the description, it would help out a lot!

Yes I play a dwarf and you can put it where the sun don't shine, lol. That tesco budget cloak is BIS.

If I had kids, I would love having them watch this series on a Sunday morning. Amazing storytelling and editing man!

What's the radius wheel at 15:30?

Pls tell me the bars font?!

Just stumbled across this channel, love the editing and commentary. Sorry if this has been asked but what unit frames do you use? They look clean as fuck and I am in love, doesn't look like elvui though

I have to say I’m addicted to this kind of “underdog” content

Great video!

This is very interesting!. As a player that is coming back to wow and is kind of scared of it due to reddit toxic claiming posts is very nice to see stuff actually happening! Im subbing so i can see the rest of it

I love the story telling! Great job! Subbed. :) What's the addon you use for the character viewing screen? It looks super neat.

As affliction you should be sacrificing your pet for the extra damage. I believe last season they changed how sacrifice works so you can do it before the key and you keep the buff. Just make sure you key bind the pet kick as you gain that ability

Hey which addon shows what keys you have completed on each week when u open your dungeon finder?

If you use Soulburn first, your gate will be cast instantly instead of having to wait. Warlock is my main and I love it but I agree I’m tired of players telling me what to do and when to do it. Like I’m aware of how to play my class lol. Enjoy Warlock as they are very fun and tanky!

I know this is an old video, but the rude msges you mentioned at around 9:00 onward is the exact reason why i only ever did one mythic+ dungeon. The overall experience as a new player was so shit. Coming from the incredibly friendly and social MMO Guild Wars 2, I was taken aback by how rude the average WoW player was... or at least the vocal ones

Nice Video whats the Background Music in the Video?

Welcome to the magical world of being a Warlock lol. Yeah it gets tricky but I love it.

Affliction has some amazing entry burst on big packs. Focus on finishing pulls with 5 shards, haunt, unstable, vile, soul rot and start blasting seeds. Ofcourse in lower keys youll still struggle because of the setup globals but affliction does have really solid burst aoe. Probably the best of the warlock specs. Good stuff though

Just something that I like to do with my 1st vault when playing with a bad gear character: I like to get the 6 tokens, and turn then into crest, then get this crest and craft some 476 item. I think that this worth more than the 441~447 itens that we get from lfr and other similar things.

hi, i really enjoyed your vid, but i was wondering if you could share your ui settings? it looks really clean!

Not even a split second went before he mentioned the spec i wanted to play.

Hello what is the addon at 10:05

Next Friday? Holy Moly donut shop

loved affli back in shadowlands with the introduction to double legendary, but these days its just too much work to do mediocre damage when you can just play demo and press a few buttons to just do double the damage :/

What’s the addon that shows you all classes and spec in the group finder?

What's more annoying than people exlecting you to drop a portal as soon as possible is when you do put the portal down and nobody helps you summon

Fyi for everyone. As an aff lock, when moving its almost always best to reapply dots. This just saves globals later, and can make sure you have high timers on them to pump when you stop moving. The only possible exception is if youre running pandemic invocation, where you do a small amount of dmg when apply dots under 5 seconds remaining. Honestly though, even in this case i think the saved globals end up being a higher amount of dmg. Also corruption always does a small amount of damage when applied. Its really not much but when there is nothing else worthwhile it can allow you to do some amount of dmg while moving.

For your next challenge, would be cool if u take a fury warrior but make it SIngle Minded Fury instead of Titans Grip.

"Raid finder would be great to gear" - laughs in zero raid drops this season.

the two soaks in the end one should just explode right away,. the other you can move out when the debuff is dropped off they always hurt but they hurt a lot when one goes off with the debuff still one the debuff is only about 4 seconds or so.

I might have to try this after my Paladin gets KSM (funny enough his name is HolyMoley. Love the Friday after next reference) cool video looking forward to more!

Playing a warlock reminds me of the way crests are set up. You need 15 to upgrade, but you get 12. You need 3 soul shards to cast a spender, but you get 2. Then while you’re waiting for the third, you proc 4 more so you’re over capped. That was my limited experience with one, dropped it pretty fast lol

sometimes i feel like if a class clicks with you u will understand it and play it decent from the getgo . For me because i like it it was very easy to understand it and play it from the start.

Unstable Affliction used to be the main spender back in Legion before Malific Grasp was introduced in BFA.

Dude what is the name of that character screen add on??? That’s hot

Super late but for dht i always spec burning rush. Its just too good to allow you to greed a cast and use circle on the kb boss

What ui addon are you using?

Soulburn into gate makes it instant btw. Super handy to know when getting out of shit

if you are specced into sacrifice grimoire make sure you use the spell :) its a big help in dps

You can Macro Soulburn and Gate together. So you will have your instant gates as long as you have a shard. Also get the gate control toy so you don't have to click the gates. Don't forget that Death coil isn't just a fear. Its also a solid heal. So using it on mobs or bosses is a great way to pump some HP back in. Vile taint is great for opening on trash then seed spam usually 3 or more mobs you seed if I remember correctly. Meh your getting it. I honestly don't enjoy aff after playing Spriest this expansion. Aff lock needs some serious redesigns to make it play more like Spriest's. Quality of life improvements are seriously needed with the spec.

The orb-commentary on the last boss had me in stitches hahahahaha The button bloat on Aff is horrible, completely agree with you. I hope it gets easier for you the further you get into the challenge and the more used to the class you get. Awesome, entertaining content as per usual!

Dilli warlock pumps incoming. Great video. Keep up the great work.

"Starting a key dismisses your pet" Yeah, us Warlocks have been complaining about that one for years. You have enough time to summon and mount up, but it does feel like you start every key off on the wrong foot.

I started my WoW journey as a mage this time around, I played a long time ago but came back maybe 3 months ago, since then I've made a Warrior and a DH and realize that I totally agree with you, being a melee based class is just more fun to me.

Great Job! Aff get's a lot easier after a week or so of playing. Cheers!

I mained Aff warlock in Nathria in Shadowlands and my guild note was "Portal Slave". Affectionately of course haha

I've seen a couple of affi locks in M+ do insane burst dmg actually

I typically only PvP but my 2 friends started playing again and they only PvE. So, I thought it'd be fun to tank the dungeons for them. Can't tell you how many people flamed them in low keys for low damage, or left a key because they died once. Now, we are up to 15's and just this week, a healer died once and left. Again in the 14, a dps died and left.

lol, the orbs in rise was painful to watch dude xD

also try use dark pact to mitigate dmg, it will save you more than you think, along with unending resolve it will make you tanky AF

Never played Aff lock before, decided i wanted to lvl and alt and honestly, for leveling out in the world i feel like Aff is the best spec of any class. I can gather a whole zone with agony, have voidwalker tank them when they get close and once they all group up i just seed of corruption which blows them up and they are usually all dead after that. Compared to leveling as most other classes/speccs, this was best, 2nd for me is havoc DH

@cursor macros are the best thing you can use to skip the green placement circle

My favorite low-geared alt experience was being invited to a key lvl that i def shouldn't have been because of my iLvl. I was summoned, asked for mage table, and kick after everyone took biscuits.

0dps, unlimited cookies!

25:40, you want the orb debuff not to stack. Ie one stay in, the other go out -- the one that noone is in will drop to floor, give everybody a debuff. If the second orb hits during that first debuff, on higher keys its an instant wipe. So you want the second orb to drop after the first orbs debuff has worn off. So just dont stack the debuffs - nothing more. As you see in 25:58 you moved out when the debuff had 3 seconds left, you should've stayed 3 more seconds before moving out.

do you have a ui video

i am intrested in thos addons but video is awsome keep it going boss

About the raid thing idk man. Last season I pugged aotc on my alt warlock at 409 ilvl with a 10% average parse for the four bosses I was in the group. The group listing said something like “desperate for a lock”, and I signed up with the message “how desperate are you?”. From my point of view, I would be doing negative damage so that’s not my job, and I’m only there to put down cookies and summon people quickly so people don’t get bored waiting around. So even if I didn’t do damage, I tried to be proactive as hell with summoning people, the raidlead noticed and whispered me promising not to kick me because he was happy not having to ask for summon stones. He didn’t kick me and no one even ever suggested kicking me even when we got 440 ilvl locks on nelth and sark because I was doing the things I got invited for. Immediately putting cookies and putting a portal down the moment trash was done, without even thinking before anyone could ever ask. “lock is sleeping” I’d see as a joking reminder to do my job as a 0 damage lock, and the whispers to me feel like frustration after not getting the hint and “was I asked” screams ego to me which is fine if your damage was actually good. But it’s hard to actually judge without seeing actual footage and context, how long you were waiting around for etc.

Bro thats my entire experience with the raiding community, Mythic is toxic too but not nearly as raiding in my experience.

Heads up. if you stand under the Dragon in DHT the push back is much less.

How do you get the rainbow mouse cursor? I definitely need it with all the crap and addons on my screen sometimes I lose my mouse lol

my friends and i did this in shadowlands season 4. we called it "zero to hero" we were just a stack of the worst classes. (healer, tank, dps)

Welcome to the struggles of pet classes, remember that you have to resummon them after you get revived aswell

demon hunters when they have to play a real class:

i know youre struggles... il recently boosted me a WL , Taking Affliction.. bevore i knew how bad they are tunes/Desinged, i just like the playstyle of dotting... Currently sitting on 460 and 1,5k points. what is this short dial to mount on called? is it a weak aura or Addon ? ill need this

Really want to know the addon's for the UI here. They are nice!

What? I love Afflication in M+. With the 4er Set Boni and Doom Blossom, Seed of Corruption deals a Tons of Damage on the Trash. Together with Vile Taint and Soul Rot pretty funny.

Man as warlock main that trick is that you dont give a damn what everyone is talking. Your moment is when you get gear and let the dmg speak for you :P

i used to get roasted by people in heroic dungeons as an ele shaman because I didn't have the tier set yet and the tanks were pulling the entire map and I couldn't cast and run at the same time. it was not fun.