Destruction Warlock Rotation Guide - Dragonflight 10.2.6

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Always cast Conflagrate when moving. If you know you will have to reposition, move in the direction you want to while on the gcd from casting Conflagrate.

A well-positioned Demonic Circle can benefit you massively and increase your dps significantly if it means not having to run for an extended period of time.

Knowing when to spend soul shards on Rain of Fire and Shadowburn. If you have these available, it's sometimes better to dump a shard on one of these than overcapping and losing out on the benefits you gain from spending soul shards.

Prioritize your spells correctly when being able to cast - Meaning, if you've had to run for an extended period of time, knowing what your priority list is and getting that up and running as quickly as possible is also going to make a big difference on your dps.

*Special notes*Rain of Fire

3 or more targets up. This changes to 5 or more enemies if you have Havoc up.

You have to move and can't cast to avoid capping on soul shards.

Chaos Bolt

Fewer than 3 enemies up. This is again 5 or fewer enemies if you have Havoc up.

The targets might move out of your Rain of Fire.

Some of the targets are low health and might die during your Rain of Fire, bringing the amount of mobs down to less than 3.

There is a priority target that should be damaged down rather than dealing AoE damage.

Offensive Cooldown Usage for Destruction Warlock in Dragonflight

Havoc - While being a relatively short cooldown with a high uptime, being able to utilize your Havoc properly is going to significantly increase your damage output. You need to know when you should farm up soul shards prior to using Havoc and then dumping with Chaos Bolt being duplicated. But also when to farm up more soul shards with Havoc and dumping them on Rain of Fire. The rule of thumb is: On 5 or more targets you use Havoc to farm shards, on anything less you need to have shards farmed up prior to Havoc coming off cooldown.

Summon Infernal - A good portion of our damage is dealt during our cooldown usage, meaning you will want to make sure you use this cooldown correctly. It's always worth using this on multiple targets, as long as you don't miss out on a use of this during the encounter or dungeon. In that case, it's most often going to be more worth using it as often as you can. This cooldown is further empowered through talents like Rain of Chaos, Crashing Chaos and Infernal Brand making it significantly more important.

Dimensional Rift - A less important cooldown, but still worth mentioning. You will want to always keep this on cooldown, but consider saving charges for when damage is needed on a priority target.

Avatar of Destruction - While being a proc and not a cooldown in the traditional sense, this is still an effect that can be played around and timed well in order to optimize your benefit from it.

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Comment by Yasmine76

Thought "Life Tap" had been removed?

Comment by Edoloth

I notices that the Chaos Bolt tooltip actually shows it having a cost of 20 soul shards, which it definitely hasn’t!

Comment by ShadowsWrathX

The guide seems to be out dated and/or incomplete.

Comment by Hunterinco

Please update guide. Talent builds in particular need updating. With current stat levels eradication and internal combustion are taking a back seat to Flashover and reverse entropy in 1 target scenarios. Especially depending on what azerite traits you use.

Comment by cheera

this page needs to be updated. Backdraft is now on passive.

Comment by Gyohdon

AOE Rotation is currently broken with regards to the covenant abilities

Comment by Shinysuicune

If an editor sees this the venthyr class and signature abilities are swapped

Comment by Azerious

Shouldn't Channel Demonfire be somewhere in the rotation, since the current set Sinister Savant's Cursethreads focuses on it?

Comment by Mendicant

You have shadowburn in your talent build but don't mention it once....?

Destruction Warlock Rotation Guide - Dragonflight 10.2.6

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