This Warlock Leveling Guide has the purpose of helping you to get to level 80 as soon as possible. As you might already know, the Affliction Warlock is probably the most famous talent build to level faster, so let’s focus on it.
First things first: Here are the levels at which new slots for Glyphs are unlocked:
· Level 15: 1 Major, 1 Minor
· Level 30: 2 Major, 1 Minor
· Level 50: 2 Major, 2 Minor
· Level 70: 2 Major, 3 Minor
· Level 80: 3 Major, 3 Minor
This leaves the question, starting at level 15, which is the most efficient major Glyph for Affliction Warlocks?
The Warlock Leveling Guide – The Best Glyphs For Affliction Warlocks
Corruption – Level 15 – Major Glyph
You Corruption spell has a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Curse of Agony – Level 15 – Major Glyph
Increases the duration of your Curse of Agony by 4 sec.
Siphon Life – Level 30 – Major Glyph
Increases the healing you receive from your Siphon Life talent by 25%.
Souls – Level 68 – Minor Glyph
Reduces the mana cost of your Ritual of Souls spell by 70%.
Drain Soul – Level 15 – Minor Glyph
Your Drain Soul ability occasionally creates an additional soul shard.
Unending Breath – Level 15 – Minor Glyph
Increases the swim speed of targets affected by your Unending Breath spell by 20%.
Warlock Leveling Guide – Which Is The Best Order To Get Them?
As an Affliction Warlock you will already face a difficult decision at level 15: Choose Corruption or Curse of Agony as your first major glyph? The greatest benefit of Corruption is it’s synergy with Nightfall – which you will spec at level 28-29 if you follow our Affliction Warlock Leveling Guide. That’s why we recommend going for Glyph: Curse of Agony first.
Next decision when you hit 30. Glyph: Corruption will help you to finish mobs of faster as you use Corruption and Drain Life a lot! But this will also cost you more mana and often the DoTs will not run for their full potential. If you feel that you have absolutely NO mana and health problems, go for Glyph: Corruption and you will greatly increase your leveling speed! But if you need to drain more life, go for Glyph: Siphon Life.
Now, after making these 2 decisions everything else should be obvious. The minor Glyphs are less important so get them as you want.
Note: The improvements to your Affliction spells, especially to Curse of Agony and Siphon Life make the Affliction Warlock even more mana effective than he already is. With the Glyphs recommended in this Warlock leveling guide you will automatically complete every quest slightly faster.
And as you know, completing quests as fast as possible determines how fast you will ding 80. But did you know that most players waste lots of time doing the “wrong” quests that only give you little or no reward for your effort?
To get the most out of your Affliction Warlock, we strongly suggest you get an in-game add-on that shows you exactly how to avoid those junk-quests. Only do the most rewarding quests can save you hours of wasted time.