Patch 11.1/Season 2 Destruction Warlock DPS Guide
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Destruction Warlock Tier Sets
2-Piece
Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot! that fires a flurry of 6 Demonfire bolts at 200% effectiveness. Casting Summon Infernal always hits a Jackpot!
Mythic +: A
Raiding: B+
4-Piece
Hitting a Jackpot! increases your Mastery and your spells gain maximum benefit from Mastery: Chaotic Energies for 10 sec.
Mythic +: B
Raiding: B+
Destruction Warlock Talent Builds
Hellcaller Destruction Single Target
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Hellcaller Destruction Havoc Cleave
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Hellcaller Destruction M+ Shadowburn
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Hellcaller Destruction M+ Rifts
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Diabolist Destruction Single Target
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Diabolist Destruction Havoc Cleave
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Diabolist Destruction Mythic + AOE
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Destruction Warlock Trinkets
Eye Of Kezan
Our best "Equip" based Single Target option for Season 2. Has a passive stacking Intellect effect while also a damage effect once max stacks are reached.
House of Cards
Our best "On Use' Trinket this tier. Provides baseline Intellect and an on-use Mastery effect which increases per use.
Mug's Moxie Jar
A passive, Intellect based trinket which grants bonus Critical Strike that stacks when additional spells are cast within the window.
Signet of the Priory
Powerful Equip based trinket which provides Intellect and a Damage effect. Quite close to our other on-use BIS Trinket, House or Cards. Signet can also be farmed from Mythic +.
Soulletting Ruby
Ruby is a solid option this tier, but outclassed by House of Cards and Signet of the Priory.
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
Personal - Beledar's Bounty
If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become Well Fed and gain 469 of your highest secondary stat for 1 hour.
Flask - Flask of Alchemical Chaos
Strongest Flask option, with a bit of RNG. Drink to increase a random secondary stat by 7609 at the cost of 290 of two other secondary stats. These effects are randomized again every 30 sec.
Potion - Tempered Potion
Your best DPS Potion. Gain the effects of all inactive Tempered Flasks, increasing their associated secondary stats by 2617 for 30 sec.
Weapon Oil - Algari Mana Oil
Best choice for Weapon Oil in TWW. Coat your weapon in Algari Mana Oil, increasing your Critical Strike and Haste by 155 for 120 min.
Enchants and Gems
Weapon - Authority of the Depths
Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace
Chest - Crystalline Radiance
Bracers - Chant of Armored Avoidance
Legs - Sunset Spellthread
Boots - Defender's March
Rings - Radiant Haste
You'll want to use Culminating Blasphemite as your Algari Diamond, then a mix of Deadly Onyx, Masterful Ruby, Deadly Sapphire and Masterful Emerald, to fulfill Algari gem requirements.
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
2. Conflagrate
3. Shadowburn
4. Summon Infernal (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)
5. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)
6. Shadowburn
7. Conflagrate
8. Chaos Bolt
9. Channel Demonfire (If Talented)
10. Incinerate
11. Shadowburn
12. Resume Maintenance Rotation
You want to cast Shadowburn essentially on cooldown, even outside of execute. The ability has been buffed significantly in TWW. You will only cast Cataclysm in ST if your Wither/Immolate is going to fall, to re-apply Wither/Immolate.
If you are playing Channel Demonfire, cast it on cooldown.
AOE/Mythic +
1. Cataclysm (if talented, to mass apply Wither as Hellcaller)
2. Summon Infernal (Trinkets, Potions and Racials)
3. Malevolence (if Hellcaller)
4. Rain of Fire
5. Channel Demonfire
6. Havoc
7. Conflagrate
8. Rain of Fire Spam
*Want to manually apply a few Immolates if noy playing Cataclysm (ex Diabolist).
*Can use Havoc to generate additional shards via Conflagrate/Incinerate casts in AOE.
*See Havoc usage section for Havoc usage in Cleave vs AOE.
Hellcaller will play Cataclysm over Inferno in Mythic +, while Diabolist will opt for Inferno. You will have to manually apply a handful of Immolates if playing Diabolist, once the pack is pulled. Cataclysm will apply Wither to all mobs hit by the effect as Hellcaller.
If you are playing Channel Demonfire, be sure to cast it on CD in AOE, to extend the duration of your Wither/Immolate effects.
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 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.
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