Demonology Warlock Guide — Class Guides · WoW Wrath of the Lich King

Rotation and priorities

1. 1Felguard out; Demonic Empowerment when ready.
2. 2Corruption, Immolate and your curse kept up.
3. 3Incinerate when Molten Core procs; Shadow Bolt to fill.
4. 4Soul Fire when Decimation lights up below 35% health.
5. 5Metamorphosis with Immolation Aura, trinkets and Heroism.
6. 6Life Tap for mana.

Strengths and weaknesses

Stats and gear

Builds

• Demonology Raider

  DamagePvE
  5417

  0/54/17

  Raid damage with 54 points in Demonology, down to Metamorphosis, and 17 in Destruction.

  • Demonic Empowerment 1/1
  • Summon Felguard 1/1
  • Nemesis 3/3
  • Demonic Pact 5/5
  • Metamorphosis 1/1

  Glyphs: Glyph of Life Tap (major), Glyph of Quick Decay (major), Glyph of Felguard (major), Glyph of Souls (minor), Glyph of Drain Soul (minor), Glyph of Subjugate Demon (minor)

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Key talents

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  Metamorphosis · top talent, up to 1

  You transform into a Demon for 30 sec. This form increases your armor by 600%, damage by 20%, reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by melee attacks by 6% and reduces the duration of stun and snare effects by 50%. You gain some unique demon abilities in addition to your normal abilities. 3 minute cooldown.

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  Master Demonologist · tier 6, up to 5

  Grants both the Warlock and the summoned demon an effect as long as that demon is active. Imp - Increases your Fire damage by 5%, and increases the critical effect chance of your Fire spells by 5%. Voidwalker - Reduces Physical damage taken by 10%. Succubus - Increases your Shadow damage by 5%, and increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 5%. Felhunter - Reduces all spell damage taken by 10%. Felguard - Increases all damage done by 5%, and reduces all damage taken by 5%.

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  Molten Core · tier 6, up to 3

  Increases the duration of your Immolate by 9 sec, and you have a 12% chance to gain the Molten Core effect when your Corruption deals damage. The Molten Core effect empowers your next 3 Incinerate or Soul Fire spells cast within 15 sec. Incinerate - Increases damage done by 18% and reduces cast time by 30%. Soul Fire - Increases damage done by 18% and increases critical strike chance by 15%.

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  Demonic Empowerment · tier 7, up to 1

  Grants the Warlock's summoned demon Empowerment. Imp - Increases the Imp's spell critical strike chance by 20% for 30 sec. Voidwalker - Increases the Voidwalker's health by 20%, and its threat generated from spells and attacks by 20% for 20 sec. Succubus and Incubus - Instantly vanishes, causing the demon to go into an improved Invisibility state. The vanish effect removes all stuns, snares and movement impairing effects from the demon. Felhunter - Dispels all magical effects from the Felhunter. Felguard - Increases the Felguard's attack speed by 20% and breaks all stun, snare and movement impairing effects and makes your Felguard immune to them for 15 sec.

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  Demonic Knowledge · tier 7, up to 3

  Increases your spell damage by an amount equal to 12% of the total of your active demon's Stamina plus Intellect.

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  Demonic Tactics · tier 8, up to 5

  Increases melee and spell critical strike chance for you and your summoned demon by 10%.

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  Decimation · tier 8, up to 2

  When you Shadowbolt, Incinerate or Soul Fire a target that is at or below 35% health, the cast time of your Soul Fire spell is reduced by 40% for 10 sec. Soul Fires cast under the effect of Decimation cost no shard.

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  Summon Felguard · tier 9, up to 1

  Summons a Felguard under the command of the Warlock.

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  Nemesis · tier 9, up to 3

  Reduces the cooldown of your Demonic Empowerment, Metamorphosis, and Fel Domination spells by 30%.

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  Demonic Pact · tier 10, up to 5

  Increases your spell damage by 10%, and your pet's criticals apply the Demonic Pact effect to your party or raid members. Demonic Pact increases spell power by 10% of your Spell Damage for 45 sec. This effect has a 1 sec cooldown. Does not work on Subjugated demons.

Demonology abilities by level

When each ability arrives: trained abilities at the level a trainer first teaches them, talent abilities (gold frame) at the first level the talent can be taken.

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• Challenging Howllevel 1
• Demon Skinlevel 1
• Summon Implevel 1
• Create Healthstonelevel 10
• Summon Voidwalkerlevel 10
• Health Funnellevel 12
• Unending Breathlevel 16
• Create Soulstonelevel 18
• Demon Armorlevel 20
• Fel Dominationtalent, level 20
• Felsteedlevel 20
• Ritual of Summoninglevel 20
• Soul Linktalent, level 20
• Summon Incubuslevel 20
• Summon Succubuslevel 20
• Eye of Kilrogglevel 22
• Sense Demonslevel 24
• Detect Invisibilitylevel 26
• Banishlevel 28
• Create Firestonelevel 28
• Subjugate Demonlevel 30
• Summon Felhunterlevel 30
• Shadow Wardlevel 32
• Create Spellstonelevel 36
• Demonic Empowermenttalent, level 40
• Dreadsteedlevel 40
• Infernolevel 50
• Summon Felguardtalent, level 50
• Demon Chargelevel 60
• Immolation Auralevel 60
• Metamorphosistalent, level 60
• Ritual of Doomlevel 60
• Ritual of Doom Effectlevel 60
• Shadow Cleavetalent, level 60
• Fel Armorlevel 62
• Soulshatterlevel 66
• Ritual of Soulslevel 68
• Demonic Circle: Summonlevel 80
• Demonic Circle: Teleportlevel 80

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