Patch 12.1 Midnight Destruction Warlock DPS Guide Patch 12.1 Midnight

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Destruction Warlock Tier Sets

2-Piece

Incinerate damage increased by 25% and Incinerate has a 10% increased chance to evoke an Echo of Sargeras.

4-Piece

Targets damaged by Echo of Sargeras take 6% increased damage from your spells and abilities for 6 sec.

Destruction Warlock Talent Builds

Hellcaller is the preferred raid spec, while Diabolist in is played in M+.

Hellcaller Destruction Single Target

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Hellcaller Destruction Havoc Cleave

For the Havoc Cleave build listed below, you can play EITHER Havoc or Mayhem depending on the encounter and damage profile.

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Hellcaller Destruction M+

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Diabolist Destruction Single Target

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Diabolist Destruction Havoc Cleave

For the Havoc Cleave build listed below, you can play EITHER Havoc or Mayhem depending on the encounter and damage profile.

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Diabolist Destruction Mythic + AOE

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Destruction 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)

Destruction Warlock Stat Weights

Intellect>Mastery>Haste>Critical Strike>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.

Destruction 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 Magisters

Use: Increases your Mastery 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.

Destruction 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 Soul Fire (If Talented)

2. Conflagrate

3. Summon Infernal (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

4a. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)

5. Chaos Bolt

6. Conflagrate

7. Chaos Bolt

8. Chaos Bolt

Continue to build shards for Chaos Bolt casts Via Conflagrate, Incinerate and Soul Fire.

*Be sure to cast Shadowburn if Fiendish Cruelty procs.

Be sure to cast Soul Fire on CD if talented, as it is a damage gain and procs your Overfiend.

Currently it looks as if you will de-sync your Malevolence from Infernal for Hellcaller, meaning you cast both on CD. With Malevolence being a 1 minute CD and Infernal being 1.5 minutes, they will re-sync at 3 minutes.

AOE/Mythic +

1. Cataclysm

2. Summon Infernal (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

3. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)

4. Rain of Fire

5. Conflagrate

6. Rain of Fire

7. Rain of Fire Spam (3+ Targets, unless there is a priority mob).

Continue to build shards for Rain of Fire casts Via Conflagrate, Incinerate and Soul Fire.

**If you are playing the Diabolist Chaos Bolt M+ build, you will cast Chaos Bolt in place of Rain of Fire until very high target counts.**

Mayhem is your default cleave talent choice over Havoc in Mythic +. Be sure to keep an eye on where the effect procs, if target swapping is needed.

Havoc Usage

There are a couple different ways to use your Havoc window which depends on the setting you are in. At times it will be used for shard generation to fuel more Rain of Fire casts. If you are looking to use Havoc in a setting where there are two targets, there are a few general guidelines you can follow.

1. Try to enter the Havoc window with 2.5-3.5 Soul Shards.

2. Apply Immolate/Wither to both targets as long as they are going to live for 6+ seconds.

3. Be sure to not shard cap and be mindful of shard generation with Conflagrate/Incinerate casts.

4. Soul Fire WILL generate 2 shards and fully cleave if cast via Havoc.