Patch 12.1 Midnight Demonology Warlock DPS Guide Patch 12.1 Midnight

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Demonology Warlock Tier Sets

2-Piece

Wild Imp damage increased by 10%. Implosion damage increased by 20%.

4-Piece

When their energy depletes, Wild Imps have a 20% chance to fling themselves at their target and Implode at 250% effectiveness to their main target and 225% effectiveness to other targets.

Demonology Warlock Talent Builds

Currently, Diabolist is the best Hero Talent in both Mythic +, Single Target and raid encounters.

Diabolist Demonology Single Target

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Diabolist Demonology Raid Cleave

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Diabolist Demonology Mythic + AOE

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Soul Harvester Single Target Demonology

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Soul Harvester Demonology Mythic + AOE

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Demonology Warlock Trinkets

Use: Channel for 2 sec as the wind answers Dazar's command, increasing your Haste by 120 up to 20 sec. (2 Min Cooldown).

Equip: You have a chance to pull an artifact of questionable value out of the bag when casting spells and abilities, enhancing your secondary stats in various ways. There are probably no fish left in the bag, but it's hard to be sure. BIS Equip Trinket.

Equip: Your spells have a high chance to call to the sea, granting Tidal Insight to increase your Intellect by 2091 up to 6 times. After reaching its peak, your spells instead diminish Tidal Insight before beginning the cycle anew.

Use: Take a sip of the drink you swiped from the freight, increasing your Critical Strike by 531 for 15 sec. (1 Min, 30 Sec Cooldown). BIS On-Use Trinket.

Use: Take a small sip of venom, gaining 790 of a random secondary stat for 15 sec. Afterwards, a random secondary stat is reduced by 113 for 15 sec. (2 Min Cooldown).

Demonology Warlock Stat Weights

Intellect>Haste>Critical Strike=Versatility>Mastery

It is VERY important to note that this is a rough outline of desired secondary stats. Stat weights will vary from player to player 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.

Demonology Warlock Consumables and Enchants

Consumables

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Food - Royal Roast (Personal) or Harandar Celebration (Feast)

If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become Well Fed gaining 98 Stamina and 50 primary stat for 1 hour.

Flask - Flask of the Shattered Sun

Use: Increases your Critical Strike by 165 for 1 hour.

Potion - Light's Potential

Use: Drink to increase your primary stat by 695 for 30 sec.

Weapon Oil - Thalassian Phoenix Oil

Use: Coat your weapon with Thalassian Phoenix Oil, increasing your Critical Strike and Haste by 16 for 120 min.

Enchants and Gems

Helm - Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Shoulders - Amirdrassil's Grace

Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Legs - Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Feet - Lynx's Dexterity

Ring - Eyes of the Eagle

Weapon - Acuity of the Rendorei

You'll want to use an Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your Thalassian Diamond.

You will then want a mix of different gems based on your characters raidbots.com Top Gear simulation.

Demonology Warlock Rotation

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 Power Siphon (If Talented)

2. Precast Shadow Bolt x2

3. Call Dreadstalkers

4. Grimoire: Imp Lord or Fel Ravager

5. Build to 5 Shards (If Soul Harvester, Tyrant grants 3 shards)

6. Summon Demonic Tyrant (Trinkets, Racials & Potions)

7. Hand of Guldan

8. Demonbolt

9. Hand of Guldan

10. Repeat building to 3 Shards and casting Hand of Guldan to maximize Apex Talent

When casting Power Siphon, make sure that you have 2+ Imps active or you will be refunded only 1 Demonic Core.

AOE/Mythic +

1. Build to 5 shards

2. Call Dreadstalkers

3. Demonic Tyrant (Trinkets, Racials & Potions)

4. Hand of Guldan

-4a. Implode when at 6 or more Imps

5. Demonbolt

6. Hand of Guldan

7. Demonbolt

8. Hand of Guldan

*Cast Summon Doonguard on CD.

Demonology's M+/AOE Rotation varies greatly based on active pets and resources available from one pack to the next, so the "opener" mentioned above is not set in stone. Implosion (covered below) is also worthwhile in AOE.

Rotational Tips and Optimization

Dominion of Argus (Apex Talent)

Our Apex Talent in Midnight revolves around casting as many Hand of Gul'dans as possible while the effect is active (25 seconds). It is important to react to and use Demonic Core procs accordingly in your opener to do so. A video reference can be found in the YouTube guide below, as your opener does vary a bit between Soul Harvester and Diabolist.

Implosion Rotation

When it comes to Implosion, it is a DPS gain in 2+ stacked targets. You want to implode when you have 6 or more imps active. Max Implosion is 6 imps, which will "refund" 3 Imp-Gang Bosses with the To Hell and Back talent.

To Hell and Back

The To Hell and Back Talent makes implosion a DPS gain in Single Target scenarios even during Demonic Tyrant. The Imp-Gang Bosses that spawn which are buffed by Unstable Soul do considerable damage.

Doom Play/Maintenance

If you are playing Doom, be sure to try and "weave" Doom effects onto multiple enemies in AOE, as each effect pops for AOE damage.