Patch 12.0 Midnight Destruction Warlock DPS Guide Patch 12.0 Midnight

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Destruction Warlock Tier Sets

2-Piece

Chaos Bolt and Rain of Fire damage increased by 5%.

4-Piece

Conflagrate generates 2 additional Soul Shard fragments and its damage is increased by 10%.

Destruction Warlock Talent Builds

Currently, Diabolist is the best Hero Talent in Raiding, while both see play in Mythic +.

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

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Our best "Equip' Trinket this tier. Provides baseline Mastery and an effect that stacks Intellect, which can overlap.

On-use trinket that provides Haste effect while bringing a bonus to passive Intellect. Has a small chance of reducing a random secondary stat.

Shadow of the Empyrean Requiem

Equid based damage trinket that provides a passive Haste when a target reaches 35% health or less.

On-use trinket that provides bonus Mastery, but diminishes over 15 seconds.

Destruction Warlock Stat Weights

Intellect>Haste>Critical Strike>Mastery>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 Hex of Leeching

Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending

Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Legs - Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Feet - Shaladrassil's Roots

Ring - Nature's Fury

Weapon - Jan'alai's Precision

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. Chaos Bolt

4. Summon Infernal (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)

4a. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)

5. Conflagrate

6. Chaos Bolt

7. 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.