2-Piece

Malefic Rapture damage increased by 5% and its critical strike chance is increased by 10%.

Mythic +: B

Raiding:  B

4-Piece

Soul Harvester Affliction Single Target

Soul Harvester Affliction AOE Mythic +

Hellcaller Affliction Single Target

Hellcaller Affliction AOE Mythic +

Intellect>Critical Strike>Mastery>Haste>Versatility

It is VERY important to note that this is a rough outline of desired secondary stats. Your stat weights will be different than others due to varying gear sets and other external factors. The best way to tell what your own stat weights are is a raidbots.com Top Gear sim with Gems and Enchants taken into account. If you don't want to do that then you can just follow this.

Consumables

Enchants and Gems

1. Your first Spark based craft will be a Weapon of some sort with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.

• Crafting a Staff early on with 2 Spark of Omens is advised, but end patch BIS will have Mythic Queen Ansurek Main Hand and Crafted Offhand.

2. Your second Spark based craft will be a cloth armor item of some sort with Writhing Armor Banding.

• It is also possible to wear a 590 Crafted item of lesser value (such as Bracers or Cloak, which do not require a Spark of Omens) with Writhing Armor Banding Writhing Armor Banding Embellished, and craft a different piece of gear with you next spark that is of greater value. This may be the case for players who choose to craft a staff early, instead of a MH/OH Weapon. 

The openers and rotations listed below are what you want to follow in a normal opener and setting. At times these may change due to fight mechanics or needing to hold CDs. 

 Single Target Opener

1. Precast Haunt

2. Precast Unstable Affliction

3. Agony

4. Corruption or Wither (if Hellcaller)

6. Shadow Bolt/Drain Soul to 2/4 stacks of Shadow Embrace

7. Phantom Singularity

8. Soul Rot  (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

9. Summon Darkglare

10. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)

11. Malefic Rapture Spam

Be sure to not over cap on Nightfall and Tormented Crescendo procs, which both have a max stack count of 2.

You will hold every Phantom Singularity for every Soul Rot cast, both as Hellcaller and Soul Harvester. 

AOE/Mythic +

1. Seed of Corruption

2. Unstable Affliction (on priority mob)

3. Haunt (on Unstable Affliction mob)

4. Vile Taint

5. Soul Rot (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

6. Summon Darkglare

7. Malevolence

8. Malefic Rapture Spam

You will want to try and weave Nightfall procs onto your Unstable Affliction target, to fish for Tormented Crescendo procs. Casting Nightfall procs on non-UA targets will not proc TC as of late Beta.

Maintenance Rotation

Afflictions rotation is relatively simple outside of your Malefic Rapture windows. You will want to maintain your DOT effects and Haunt/Shadow's Embrace while refreshing in their Pandemic window. Pandemic is essentially the fact that you want to refresh your DOT's when they reach 30% or less of their remaining duration. This will add that remaining duration onto the new DOT application without any damage being "lost".

While it is not a massive DPS loss to refresh before your Pandemic window, it is still something to min/max. Refreshing DOTs on the move however is a DPS gain (over casting nothing) and is one of the main perks of Affliction, it's incredibly mobile.

DOT Pandemic Range

Agony - 4.5 Seconds

Corruption - 4.2 Seconds

Unstable Affliction - 6.3 Seconds

Outside of DOT maintenance you will have your Malefic Rapture windows every minute which pair Soul Rot with Phantom Singularity or Vile Taint. Malefic Raptures damage is based off Mastery and the number of active DOTs on each mob.  

If you are playing Soul Harvester, you can cast Malefic Raptures more often outside of your Rapture window, due to the fact that Soul Rot grants you 3 Shards when cast. Try not to over cap (outside of the opener) if possible.