Affliction Warlock Click macros?

[Calyptic]

Does anyone have a good setup for affliction? ive been using the Destro click setup thats on these boards but hadnt run accross Afflic, ty in advance

[Coltimar]

KaChow!

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Using_Click#Affliction

[Calyptic]

KaChow!

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Using_Click#Affliction

tyvm


Edit:

have you tried that by chance? after i set it up i dont quite understand the mod drainsoul parts, and it seems to refresh dots way early

[Coltimar]

I haven't yet, my locks are too low! I intend to respec on of mine Affliction so I'm curious now, too. Ualaa posted him and his thoughts are high above my own. Maybe send him a PM if he doesn't pop into this thread soon. Just let me know what you find out!

Edit: After looking it over it appears that he doesn't have as many commas as I would use. Probably because his rate of spam is slower. Check this site out http://multibox.me/ It will help you decide how many commas to use. I would just tweak it on a target dummy.

[Ualaa]

I spam at 2 clicks per second. It all depends on your spam speed.

At 1 click per second, halve the commas.
At 2 clicks per second, the click is good.
At 3 clicks per second, you want 1.5 times as many commas.
At 4 clicks per second, you want 2.0 times as many commas.
At 5 clicks per second, you want 2.5 times as many commas.

It also doesn't hurt to take your click macro and test it on a target dummy.
The level of the dummy doesn't matter, since we're testing the timing... so probably go against a lower level dummy, unless you have a lot of spell hit and are capped against a higher opponent.
Also drag one of each spell that the click will call, to somewhere on your bar.

You want to make sure each spell is firing off.

Adjust commas as necessary.
If a spell is expires, you'll want to reduce the number of commas for that spell, so it will fire off sooner.
If a spell is recast before it expires, you should increase the commas for that spell.
Fewer commas mean the fall-through will go off less often, as main abilities are cast more often; similarly, increasing the number of commas is more clicks where the priority sequences are doing nothing, which means the fall-through fires off.

Pretty much a posted click sequence is a starting point or a base to work from.
But it will need to be tweaked by each user, to work as well as it can, for them.





For my toons, I wanted a one-button spam. Especially for mixed teams.

The mod portion basically says to Drain Soul, if a mod key is pressed in conjunction with the click spam and while not channeling.
So basically if you go Alt 1, Ctrl 1, Shift 1 (or any combo of mod keys), while not channeling, it will begin to channel Drain Soul instead of whatever it would have been doing.

But if we're not channeling, Drain Soul being the only spell we'd likely be channeling, then the click part can fire off.
As in whatever is the next highest priority, as determined by the placement of our click macros.

[Coltimar]

Ualaa, how do your affliction locks fair? I was considering converting one of my two destro locks, but only if there is a decent benefit to doing so.

[Ualaa]

I had an affliction lock on my mixed team, for quite a while. Against trash and quest mobs, the DPS was pretty pathetic. But against bosses, the warlock was the highest DPS on the team. That warlock experimented with Destro, becoming highest DPS on trash, but never reaching the Affliction level on bosses. I've since moved the lock to my 3x Elemental & 1x Protection team, for the 13% spell power buff and run her as Demonology now that she has enough SP for the lock buff to provide more SP then the Totem of Wrath.

The 4x Warlock & 1x Priest team (my only horde team) is sitting at 21st or 22nd. Pretty low priority at the moment, but they'll end up Affliction. Still undecided on 5x Warlocks or 4x and a Disc Priest.

[Kang]

I made a click sequence for my affliction lock to line up with the cast priority I found on EJ:
Shadow Bolt -> Haunt -> Unstable Affliction -> Corruption -> Curse of Agony->Shadow Bolt

The first Shadow bolt is a starter: /castsequence reset=target/combat sb, null
Corruption is similar since it refreshes with haunt.
I have drain soul on a separate button since I only use it on boss fights.

[DLoweinc]

FYI I just switched my (former destruction) lock to this last night and I must say THANK YOU to whoever wrote the macro. It works great and put my warlock as the highest dps on my team for bosses, but not on trash.

Yes I had to add / remove commas while testing on the dummy to cater to my button-mash speed, but in my group setting with his gear (gearscore of 5200) he is doing 7500 to 8000 on the dummy, sustained through two million damage.

Some things I did differently: i took out curse of agony and substituted curse of the elements because I didn't have a balance druid or an unholy DK. This 13% buff is huge for my other guys and greatly outweighs the dps of CoA. I also added in a dark pact / lifetap macro that seems to be tied in pretty well (redoes itself a bit more frequently because mana seems to be an issue with all of the haste.. my lock BLOWS through mana).

Some things I noticed about this: obviously with affliction, timing is a MUCH bigger deal than with destruction. If you clip your dots or they dont' get applied quickly enough it really hurts the dps. Spend some time on a dummy and test it all out. I found that my button mashing seems to increase when shit hits the fan so I altered my castsequence commas accordingly.

I have a question though... how much of a dps increase is it to actually use the drain soul portion? i didn't switch to it last night and just let him continue his typical cast macro.

For comparison here is the link to my warlock if you are interested. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Lothar&cn=Drhibbert

[deez]

Maxdps has drain soul way up there when the target is <20% hp. Drain soul does 4x damage then, possibly modified by talents (can't recall atm) so it easily beats out shadow bolt as a fall through.

[DLoweinc]

Guess I'll need to try this and then report back... I knew about the changes @ 25% etc but was looking for a real world experience regarding the increase. I mean I'm happy with my lock doing 5,500 to 6,000 dps already, but it isn't like I'm going to turn away more dps! haha

[Calyptic]

FYI I just switched my (former destruction) lock to this last night and I must say THANK YOU to whoever wrote the macro. It works great and put my warlock as the highest dps on my team for bosses, but not on trash.

Yes I had to add / remove commas while testing on the dummy to cater to my button-mash speed, but in my group setting with his gear (gearscore of 5200) he is doing 7500 to 8000 on the dummy, sustained through two million damage.

Some things I did differently: i took out curse of agony and substituted curse of the elements because I didn't have a balance druid or an unholy DK. This 13% buff is huge for my other guys and greatly outweighs the dps of CoA. I also added in a dark pact / lifetap macro that seems to be tied in pretty well (redoes itself a bit more frequently because mana seems to be an issue with all of the haste.. my lock BLOWS through mana).

Some things I noticed about this: obviously with affliction, timing is a MUCH bigger deal than with destruction. If you clip your dots or they dont' get applied quickly enough it really hurts the dps. Spend some time on a dummy and test it all out. I found that my button mashing seems to increase when shit hits the fan so I altered my castsequence commas accordingly.

I have a question though... how much of a dps increase is it to actually use the drain soul portion? i didn't switch to it last night and just let him continue his typical cast macro.

For comparison here is the link to my warlock if you are interested. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Lothar&cn=Drhibbert

Mind posting your edit? most om getting with my edit is like 5k on the dummy with 5200 gs

[DLoweinc]

Mind posting your edit? most om getting with my edit is like 5k on the dummy with 5200 gs

Sure thing

/castsequence [nochanneling] life tap,curse of the elements,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


#showtooltip Haunt
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=20 Haunt,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,


/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Corruption,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Unstable Affliction,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


/cast [nochanneling] Shadow Bolt

I took out the reset=combat and target stuff but you could add it back in for curse of the elements if you want, i found it slowed down my dps too much on trash and would break on haunt because of the cooldown.

EDIT: and this wasn't working for me so i just bound a /stopcasting /cast drain soul macro to a different button if i need it

/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul

[Calyptic]

Sure thing

/castsequence [nochanneling] life tap,curse of the elements,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


#showtooltip Haunt
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=20 Haunt,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,


/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Corruption,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Unstable Affliction,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


/cast [nochanneling] Shadow Bolt

I took out the reset=combat and target stuff but you could add it back in for curse of the elements if you want, i found it slowed down my dps too much on trash and would break on haunt because of the cooldown.

EDIT: and this wasn't working for me so i just bound a /stopcasting /cast drain soul macro to a different button if i need it

/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul


thanks will give it a go