Warlock Destruction Guide 5.4.8

By delenath Updated: 2014/06/28

About Warlock Destruction

From Cataclysm to Pandaria

Talents

Glyphs

Equipment

Consumables

Gems

Enchantment

Stats

Professions

Pets

Skill rotation

Racial

WeakAuras

ABOUT WARLOCK DESTRUCTIONDelenathFROM CATACLYSM TO PANDARIA Chaotic Energy

Thanks to the new passive ability PandemicIt will be forced to renew our periodic damage effects before the end of its duration.

In certain fights, we can stop relying on our minions thanks to talent Grimoire of Sacrifice.

Our skills Chaos Bolt and Shadowburn will made a tremendous amount of damage, spending Burning Embers.

Thanks to Chaotic Energy our mana regenerates passively by 625% faster, and our spell haste also increases the regeneration of mana.

Aftermath will allow us to use Rain of Fire without channeling, working as a periodic extra effect and it has a probability of generating Burning Embers.

New cooldowns will grant us a great survival: Unending Resolve, Dark Bargain and Sacrificial Pact.

TALENTS UPDATED 5.4!

Dark Regeneration: Instantly restores 30% of our health and of our pet, and all the healing that we receive increases 25% for 12 seconds with a 2-minute cd. This talent can be useful in fighting with specific moments of great harm and that we or the group has to be cured.

Soul Leech: UPDATED! It will give us a shield of absorption to us and our pet for 10% of damage dealt with Incinerate, Fel Flame , Chaos Bolt and Shadowburn for 15 seconds. It has changed how it's works with respect to previous patches, now, instead of healing you, you gain a shield that absorbs a 10% of the damage dealt, becoming the most recommended option in the fights where there's no huge damage.

Harvest Life: Improves our Drain Life to deal 50% more damage and increase the heal by 150%.

Soul Leech Dark RegenerationThis level is most oriented to PvP, but we have a couple of skills that will be useful in PvE fights.

Demonic Breath: UPDATED! This talent has change. Now this is a frontal cone that slow by 50% the speed of enemies in a ratio of 10 meters for 6 seconds.

Mortal Coil: Whenever we fight against single target or a fight with few adds this talent is recommended, since implies a cure of 15% of your maximum health every 45 seconds.

Shadowfury: recommended talent in fights with multiple adds.

Shadowfury Mortal CoilDemonic Breath

Soul Link: UPDATED!Now this talent will split 20% of all damage received between us and our pet, and also become a 3% of all our damage into healing for us and our demon. Also if we use Grimoire of Sacrifice with this talent, our maximum heal will increase by 20%.

Sacrificial Pact: Sacrifices 25% of our pet's health to shield us with 400% of the health sacrificed for 20 seconds, with 1 min cooldown. If we use Grimoire of Sacrifice, we have to be careful, because we will sacrificed our own health.

Dark Bargain: Is our most powerful mitigation talent. With 3 min cooldown, it turns immune for 8 seconds, leaving us a damage over time effect equal to 50% of the damage received for 8 seconds. It is extremely useful to hold vast amounts of specific damage.

Soul Link Sacrificial Pact Dark Bargain

Blood Horror: UPDATED! When we hit by mele attack, the enemy will run in horror for up to 4 seconds, it has one charge with 30 sec cooldown and last 1 min.

Burning Rush: Drains 4% of our maximum heal per second to increase our movement speed by 50%, and movement-impairing effect will not reduce our below 100% of normal speed. It's last until cancelled so we must be careful.

Unbound Will: Purge all Magic effects, movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of our characted or demon. It's cost 20% of our maximum health and has 1 min cooldown.

Burning Rush

Grimoire of Supremacy: increases total damage and healh of our pets by 20% (included Summon Doomguard and Summon Infernal) and it also transforms their appearance on other more terrible.

Grimoire of Service: Instantly summons a second pet for 20 seconds. The pet will instantly use one of their special abilities when summoned.

Grimoire of Sacrifice: You sacrifice your pet to gain one of this abilities, and also increase the power of Incinerate, Conflagrate, Shadowburn and Fel Flame by 15% and Chaos Bolt will deal extra 15% damage as damage-over-time for 3 sec, and restores 2% of our maximum health every 5 sec. The skills affected by Fire and Brimstone won't increase their damage.

Grimoire of Sacrifice Grimoire of SupremacyFire and Brimstone Grimoire of Sacrifice

Archimonde's Darkness: UPDATED! Now makes our Dark Soul: Instability has two charges.

Kil'jaeden Cunning: UPDATED! Now this talent allow us to cast moving our Incinerate spell without spell penalty.

Mannoroth's Fury: UPDATED! With 1 min cooldown, increase the area of our Rain of Fire by 500%, and the damage dealt by 100% for 10 sec.

Archimonde's Darkness Dark Soul: Instability Mannoroth's Fury Kil'jaeden's Cunning GLYPHS UPDATED!

Glyph of Siphon Life. UPDATED! Makes our spell Inmolate heals us ~~20% of the damage deal~~ 0.5% our maximum health when dealing periodic damage.

Glyph of Drain Life. Make our Drain Life spell healing increase 30%.

Glyph of Demon Training. Allow our imp cast firebolt in bursts of three, and cast time is reduced by 50%, and other effects depends of our summoned pet.

Glyph of Soulstone. Players resurrected by Soulstone are return to life with 100% instead 60%.

Glyph of Ember Tap. Modifies our spell Ember Tap to heals additional 5% of our health, but the health is restored over 10 sec.

Glyph of Hearthstone. Hearthstone heal us 100% more, but the health is restored over 10 sec, Is useful in fight we know we are going to take constant damage, but it will not be recommended when we need a quick heal.

NEW! Glyph of Havoc. Makes our Havoc spell has 3 additional charges, but increased the cooldown by 35 sec.

NEW! Glyph of Curse of Elements. Curse of Elements hit two additional nearby targets.

NEW! Glyph of Eternal Resolve. With this glyph, we will not activate Unending Resolve, but we gain passively 10% damage reduction from all sources, and with Soul Link talent we gain total 30% damage reduction.

NEW! Glyph of Unending Resolve. The damage reduction of our Unending Resolve spell is reduced by 20%, but the cooldown is also reduced by 60 sec.

NOTE: Glyph of Demon Training FelboltWhat does this mean? Summon Imp Felbolt Felbolt Summon ImpMINOR GLYPHS Glyph of Health Funnel Health Funnel EQUIPMENTUPDATED!

Trinkets are a very important part on our equip, since they bringing us damage procs that we need to manage to increase our damage as much as possible.NOTE:

Purified Bindings of Immerseus. 1st boss loot, Immerseus.

Black Blood of Y'Shaarj. 14th boos loot, Garrosh Hellscream.

Kardis' Toxic Totem. 7th boss loot, Kor'kron Dark Shaman.

Purified Bindings of Immerseus Dark Soul: Instability Kardris' Toxic Totem Black Blood of Y'Shaarj Black Blood of Y'Shaarj Chaos Bolt Fire and Brimstone Inmolate Kardris' Toxic Totem Black Blood of Y'Shaarj Chaos Bolt Shadowburn Inmolate2 set bonus,ConflagrateInmolateIncinerate4 set bonusBurning Embers

Chest of the Cursed Conqueror. 4th boss loot, Sha del Orgullo.

Helm of the Cursed Conqueror. 11th boss loot, Thok the Bloodthristy.

Leggins of the Cursed Conqueror. 13th boss loot, Paragons of the Klaxxi. Celestians loot in Timeless Isle (normal only).

Gauntlets of the Cursed Conqueror. 8th boss loot, General Nazgrim. Celestians loot in Timeless Isle (normal only).

Shoulders of the Cursed Conqueror. 12th boss loot, Siegecrafter Blackfuse.

Rime-Rift Shoulders

Hellscream's War Staff.14th boss loot, Garrosh Hellscream.

Gaze of Arrogance. 4th boss loot, Sha of Pride.

Hellscream's War Staff Gaze of Arrogance Faze of Arrogance Hellscream's War Staff

Immaculately Preserved Wand. 10th boss loot, Spoils of Pandaria.

Arcweaver Spell Sword. 8th boss loot, General Nazgrim.

Rik'kal's Bloody Scalpel. 13th boss loot, Paragons of the Klaxxi.

Revelations of Y'Shaarj. 14th boss loot, Garrosh Hellscream.

Juggernaut's Power Core. 6th boss loot, Iron Juggernaut.

Festering Primordial Globule. 11th boss loot, Thok the Bloodthirsty.

Immaculately Preserved Wand Revelations of Y'Shaarj Arcweaver Spell Sword Rik'kal's Bloody Scalpel Juggernaut's Power Core Revelations of Y'Shaarj Festering Primordial Globule

Ebon Ritual Hood. 14th boss loot, Garrosh Hellscream.

Hood of Swirling Senses. 1th boss loot, Immerseus.

Untained Guardian's Chain. 3th boss loot, Norushen.

Ashflare Pendant. 7th boss loot, Kor'Kron Dark Shaman.

Spaulders of Kor'Krom Fealty. 8th boss loot, General Nazgrim.

Shoulderpads of Dou Dou Chong. 2th boss loot, The Fallen Protectors.

Rime-Rift Shoulders. 3th boss loot, Norushen.

Akolik's Acid-Soaked Robes. 11th boss loot, Thok the Bloodthirsty.

Avool's Ancestral Bracers. 10th boss loot, Spoils of Pandaria.

Bracers of Broken Causation. 3th boss loot, Norushen.

Fusespark Gloves. 12th boss loot, Siegecrafter Blackfuse.

Belt of Ominous Trembles. 6th boss loot, Iron Juggernaut.

Leggins of Furious Flame. 6th boss loot, Iron Juggernaut.

Toxic Tornado Treads. 7th boss loot, Kor'kron Dark Shaman.

Bone-Inlaid Sandals. 5th boss loot, Galakras.

Extinguished Ember of Galakras. 5th boss loot, Galakras.

Iyyokuk's Hereditary Seal. 13th boss loot, Paragons of the Klaxxi.

Signet of the Dinomancers. 11th boss loot, Thok the Bloodthirsty.

CONSUMABLES

Flask

Flask of the Warm Sun

Potion

Potion of the Jade Serpent

Food

Mogu Fish Stew

GEMS
UPDATED!

Meta gem socket

Burning Primal Diamond / Sinister Primal Diamond

Blue socket

Sensei's Wild Jade

Red Socket

Artful Vermilion Onyx / Keen Vermilion Onyx

Yellow Socket

Fractured Sun's Radiance / Fractured Serpent's Eye *jewelers only*

ENCHANTMENTUPDATED!

Shoulder

Greater Crane Wing Inscription / Secret Cane Wing Inscription *inscriptors only*

Cloak

Enchant Cloak - Superior Intellect / Lightweave Embroidery *tailors only*

Chets

Enchant Chest - Glorious Stats

Bracer

Enchant Bracer - Super Intellect

Gloves

Enchant Gloves - Superior Mastery

Waist

Living Steel Belt Buckle

Legs

Greater Cerulean Spellthread

Boot

Enchant Boots - Pandaren's Step

Ring

Enchant Ring - Greater Intellect *enchanters only*

Weapon

Enchant Weapon - Jade Spirit

Offhand

Enchant Off-Hand - Major Intellect

STATS Pandemic InmolatePandemicWarlock Stats

Intellect and Hit Chance . Our main statistic is the intellect, with which we will gain 1.05 spellpower per point earned by the new passive skill Nethermancy, that means, 1 intellect point grant us 1 spell power point + 0.05p from Nethermancy and passively increases our critical chance. 2548 intellect points grant us 1% critical chance.
We need hit rating or expertise (expertise now transformed into hit rating) for spells not fail. The hit rating changed to 15% compared to 17% of all life, that number becomes 5100. It also need to make our pet not miss their attacks or spells, this benefit only the integer part of percentage hit rating we have, that is, if we have for example 14.99% hit rating, our pet will have a 14% chance to hit and would not benefit from the 0.99%. 340 hit rating point equals 1% of it.

Haste . Reduces the cast time of our spells, resulting in faster Burning Embers regeneration . They also benefit from it our pets, the more faster attack speed with consequent damage increase. Also, thanks to Chaotic Energy we regenerate mana more efficiently. 425 haste points equal to 1% haste.

Mastery . Mastery percentage increases the damage we do with our basic spells and that what require Burning Embers. 200 mastery points equal to 1% mastery.

Critical strike . Our critical strikes will make 200% of normal damage. Also, our critical damage gives us twice Burning Embers. 600 points of critical strike rating equals 1% critical.

Stat priority for Tier 16UPDATED!

Intellect

Spell power

Hit chance

Mastery

Haste

Critical strike

7.3

5.65

6.7

4.6

4.2

4.5

Artful Vermilion Onyx Keen Vermilion Onyx Fractured Sun's Radiance Sensei's Wild Jade Sensei's Wild Jade a single target fight, we will follow the following priority system

INTELLECT > > MASTERY > CRITICAL STRIKE >~ HASTE
2 - 4 targetsINTELLECT > > MASTERY > HASTE >~pure fighting areaINTELLECT > > MASTERY > HASTE >Final conclusionINTELLECT > SPELL POWER > HIT (until 15%) > MASTERY > HASTE >~ CRITICAL STRIKE PROFESSIONS

Tailoring : We get Lightweave Embroidery for our back, which give us a chance when we do damage to gain 2000 intellect points for 15 seconds with 45 seconds ICD.

Engineering : We get Synapse Springs. Sometimes outperforms Tailoring although temporary benefit has a longer reuse (1 minute), provide a smaller amount of Intellect (1920) and the duration is less for the simple reason that it is a cd and we can choose the right time to use it. We may also obtain a temporary movement speed buff (increases by 200% for 5 seconds) to specific situations with a risk of failure and become damage that will take away huge amount of life per second.

Blacksmithing : Adds two extra sockets (wrist and gloves). We can use this to add 2x Fractured Sun's Radiance.

Enchanting: It allow to add Enchant Ring - Greater Intellect to our rings, totaling 320 intellect.

Alchemy: We gain 320 extra intellect point when we use a flask. Also give us double duration of our flask.

Leatherworking: Improves wrist with
Fur Lining - Intellect so we can get a bonus of 320 extra intellect (the wrist enchant give us 180 intellect).

Inscription: Improves shoulders with Secret Crane Wing Inscription so we can get a bonus of 320 extra intellect (the shoulder inscription give us 200 intellect).

Jewelcrafting : In Pandaria we have 2 special gem socket unlike the three that has brought us to the moment previous expansions. We can use 2x Brilliant Serpent's Eye, that gives us a bonus of 320 intellect.

PETSGrimoire of sacrificeGrimoire of supremacy

Observer : This pet do mele damage and use the special ability Tongue Lash. Can also interrupt a magic school spell for 6 seconds and silence the target for 3 seconds thanks to Optical Blast, with 24 seconds CD. It's pretty quick with his melee attacks and his special attack is medium power and high cost (60 fel energy).

Fel Imp: It is the only caster, which gives it a versatility that others do not have: you can start the fight without having to move it to the target; you can change from one objective to another without leaving your site and therefore without stopping spellcasting. His skills are extremely useful, because it has mass dissipation and heals us coast inflict minimal damage and can instantly make a jump and placed at our side. It will be the best choice in fighting with many changes of objectives. Their spells are high power and low cost (40 fel energy).

Shivarra : This pet do mele damage and use the special ability Bladedance. You can knocks back the targets within 5m and inflict shadow damage by Fellash, with 25 seconds CD. It's pretty slow with melee attacks and special attack has a great power and a high cost (60 fel energy).

Voidwalker : UPDATED! This pet do mele damage and use the special ability Torment. It has Void Shield, with which it is surrounded by orbs that reduce damage taken and inflict enough damage per charge orb when attacked. The bosses will not trigger this shield since they "fixed" this, as in fights like Thok and Garrosh where the area damage is physical, we can gain a huge amount of damage thanks to the ability, but now, will not be a profitable pet. You can also disarm the target for 8 seconds every minute. It's pretty quick with his melee attacks and his special attack is low power and with an average cost (50 fel energy).

Doomguard and Infernal Grimoire of Supremacy Summon DoomguardTerror Guard Summon InfernalSummon AbyssalTerrorguardAbyssalTerrorguard

You do not need to accumulate trinkets or expect that the changes of our charms take place before launch.

They benefit from Heroism / Time Warp/ Bloodlust / Ancient Hysteria. Since they benefit from our updated stats in combat, the alterations in our own haste will also become our pet. Need not be present during the launch of any of these benefits.

You do not need to wait several attempts for the CD because when the raid dies, its cooldown is reset. Its cooldown will also be restored after defeating the boss.

We can not make our Terrorguard or Abyssal go to battle with all the potential benefits of intellect and achieve and make the lead throughout its duration, which significantly impairs the Demonology branch for the great benefit received by the mastery.

Terrorguard and Abyssal not work as expected when we have active Heroism / Time Warp/ Bloodlust / Ancient Hysteria, because if it takes the fastest casts, makes a stop between them, so at the end of the invocation will be released 17 cast, we have the effect or not. This results that we throw before or after, depending on the need of the raid.

SKILL ROTATION

How burning embers work?

Incinerate Conflagrate Chaos Bolt

Spending burning embers

Chaos Bolt Shadowburn Fire and Brimstone Ember Tap

Generate burning embers

Incinerate Conflagrate Rain of Fire Inmolate

Inmolate: It is our main source of periodic damage. It has 2 second cast and creates a burning ember if it does a critical hit.

Incinerate: It will be our priority when we have nothing more important to do (explained in the next section). Consume a charge of Backdraft. Generates a burning ember when hitting, two if you make a critical hit.

Conflagrate: It's an instant spell that has two charges, each of which regenerates every 12 seconds. Generates a burning ember, two if takes a critical hit. It also generate 3 charges of Backdraft, and this can stack up to 6 times, reducing the cast time and mana cost of our next Incinerate a 30% or our next Chaos Bolt, which consumes 3 charges. It is important to always be between 0 and 1 charges of Conflagrate, because we are going to lose an important and necessary source of damage. However, we only launch Conflagrate if we know that we will have at less than 2 charges of Backdraft before the next cast of Chaos Bolt or if we have 3 or less accumulations of Backdraft.

Rain of Fire: This spell is an area of effect that we will locate in the desired location, lasts 8 seconds and count as periodic damage. If the target is affected by Inmolate, it receives 50% more damage of Rain of Fire.Can generate a burning ember when we damage an enemy (not including immune enemies) and is considered periodic damage, so it can turn our trinket based on periodic damage. UPDATED! This spell has suffered a terrible nerf in regard yo ember regeneration. You will not use it in our rotation to a single target, and in combat areas only in the following cases: 1- We have the legendary meta proc, a trinket which grants us haste o we are under the effect of Time Warp and similar.

2- We have to move and our target will be in the area for the entire duration.

3- If we have the Mannoroth's Fury

4- We can use the begin of a combat area to gain some embers and not lose the benefit of Fire and Brimstone, but if we can do normal rotation without losing embers, no income spending a GCD on renew Rain of Fire.

Chaos Bolt: This spell is one of the most powerful of a Destruction Warlock . This attack is always a critical hit, and benefits directly from these stat. It should be used when any active intellect proc, some own cd or raid cd, or are about to reach four embers, where the target is more than 20% of its health. Chaos Bolt consumes three stacks of Havoc, although it is of the best ways to use this spell (explained below).

Shadowburn: This is the second spell that consumes our embers, only if the target is less than 20% health. Shadowburn consumes one charge of Havoc, so it will be ideal to increase our damage, but always keeping in mind a few things (explained below in the section). If after 5 seconds after doing damage with Shadowburn the target dies, returns 2 embers us, otherwise we will return 15% of our mana. Ideally accumulate about 3 embers when the target get to 20%. When the fourth is nearly loaded we cast and will continue to accumulate until the moment we have more procs or damage bonus, then spend 4 to do a very powerful burst damage. No need to do this just 20%, but when the situation demands. Because only consumes one charge of Havoc, we must have something in mind; if the situation allows it and you have two target, one of them at least less than 20% of his life will be more interesting to spend the three charges to cast Shadowburn and rebuild embers when the cd of Havoc reboot.

Fel Flame: Instant cast generates an ember, two if it is critical. Makes roughly half damage than Incinerate and costs much more mana. It should be avoided, unless, by the dynamics of the meeting, not count on Kil'jaeden's Cunning, in which case when we move we can use it to do some damage while we are not short of mana.

Havoc: It is an instant spell with a 0.5 second GCD with 25 seconds cd and 15 seconds long, which when applied to a target gives us three charges. It is not necessary that our spells are the same objective, that is, can we change target while active Havoc one. When a single target spell cast into a different target, this is copied to the target affected by Havoc first. We use it with spells Inmolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate, Chaos Bolt and Shadowburn, as well as our curses, however, to take 100% advantage we need to know in which situations it should be used for what spell. Under normal circumstances, both objectives above 20%, optimize their damage combined with Chaos Bolt. When one of the two targets is below 20%, we will launch Havoc in the target with more life, and spend the three charges by Shadowburn. If you do not have enough embers for this, cast a Shadowburn and use the other two charges on Incinerate, because it is more interesting to use with a single Chaos Bolt. Finally, we must note that the copied spells do not behave like the original; we need not be in range of enemy to be copied spells, although we will be in a range of 80 meters. we does not need to have it in front so that the spell is copied successfully.

Fire and Brimstone: This spell has undergone a change from the previous patch. It does not activate GCD and puts us one buf by which our next Inmolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate and curses hit all targets within 10 meters, consuming a burning ember, and will continue until you cancel it or until we have more burning embers. However their damage will be less than the normal version of the spell, but increases directly benefited by our mastery. Spells that we launch through Fire and Brimstone will hit targets as if each skill can be launched individually, thus, the more goals, more embers generate until I reached a point that will generate the same or more embers that we spend (In point of area damage delve more this topic).

Curse of the Elements. Keep always applied to the target and renew every 5 minutes.

Shadowburn. Cast when the boss is below 20% health and meet one or more of the following conditions:
1.- We have accumulated more than 3.5 embers.

2.- We have active Dark Soul: Instability.

3.- We have an active intellect proc or buff damage increase.

4.- If you're out of mana to regenerate 15% of the same.

5.- If the target has little to die.

Chaos Bolt. We use until we have more than 2 stacks of Backdraft and while the following assumptions are met:
1.- We have accumulated more than 3.5 embers.

2.- We hace active Dark Soul: Instability

3.- We have an active intellect proc or buff damage increase.

Conflagrate. Cast to gain Backdraft. It is important not to accumulate two, or we will lose damage.

Inmolate. Keep always applied to the target.

Incinerate. Cast while the other opcions not met.

Fel Flame. We use it when we have to move, as long as we do not have the talent Kil'jaeden's Cunning, in that case, we use Rain of Fire instead.

Rain of Fire Inmolate Havoc Chaos Bolt Shadowburn Rain of Fire Inmolate Havoc Shadowburn Rain of Fire Fire and Brimstone Incinerate Conflagrate Inmolate Fire and Brimstone Rain of FireFire and Brimstone Inmolate Curse of the ElementsFire and Brimstone Inmolate Curse of the ElementsFire and BrimstoneNOTE:Mannoroth's Fury Rain of Fire

Collect four embers. This should not be done NEVER since it represents a huge loss of dps. It is best to cast one Chaos Bolt or Shadowburn without active damage procs.

~~Cast Chaos Bolt with three or more stacks of Backdraft. This is the second most important thing to avoid, as both involve a considerable loss of dps and mana regeneration.~~ UPDATED! Currently, it is preferable to consume the effect of Backdraft in our Chaos Bolt as long as we are in the situation we have Dark Soul: Instability and the maximum possible damage procs. However, we will try this situation will not happen.

Collect two charges of Conflagrate. As far as possible we will avoid this, since this implies a lost of the own damage of the Conflagrate because it is unable to obtain more charges.

Chaos Bolt with Grimoire of Sacrifice. In some meetings will be more profitable to go with this talent, but is a little niggle. Thanks to Grimoire of Sacrifice, our Chaos Bolt in addition to this damage, will put a dot of damage that will last 3 seconds. If we are casting two Chaos Bolt, it may be the case where the second cast comes before the the dot does the second tick, wherewith we lose this damage. It is not very important, but we can choose to solve it stepping a little back and then cast the next Chaos Bolt, to let some time to make your dot do the damage before the next Chaos Bolt reach the target.

Dark Soul: Instability

When there are 3 seconds to start the pull we will use Potion of the Jade Serpent

Then we cast Incinerate to reach the boss when the pull countdown reaches 0.

Curse of the Elements. We cast if anyone else in the raid can.

Terrorguard. We will use here if the fight lasts longer than 10 minutes, but we will save it for the last 20% or the last minute of combat.

Dark Soul: Instability. We will use our cd with all the benefits of extra damage, such as engineering intellect gloves, or some on-use trinket (if you have one).

Inmolate. We apply it here and thanks to the precast, and if we are not unlucky, we'll have our damage proc.

Conflagrate x 2. We spend both charges because we have all our procs damage.

Incinerate x 4 Thanks to the legendary meta and Bloodlust (if cast to pull) we can cast 4 Incinerate to generate at least two embers, and to benefit from the bonus tier 4.

Chaos Bolt x 2. Here we unleash the power of our Chaos Bolt, because if we did not have bad luck, we all active trinkets, raid benefits, personal cds, tier bonuses, etc.

Renew Inmolate to benefit from all our procs damage.

Incinerate x 2 to take advantage of charges of Backdraft (here we should have another ember load)

Chaos Bolt.

In some very specific cases, it may be interesting to use Chaos Bolt instead Shadowburn under 20%. This is so because our Chaos Bolt always be critical, while Shadowburn is ruled by critical chance we have, although the second is instant. That said, when it is more interesting to use one over the other below 20%?

If we have Time Warp or similar, we have active the 30% haste from our legendary meta and we have 3 charges of Backdraft, we are expecting a cast of Chaos Bolt less than 1 second, so this being 100% critical and cast time is less than the GCD, we are ensuring a powerful critical damage, since our Shadowburn is not always critical, and depends on our critical strike (with raid buffs around 30-35%). However this is achieved only with high haste, for example, if you mixed team to use another spec, so unless you get at least 100% haste with all these benefits, this will not work.

Whenever we fight in combat with or against adds and a main target, it is important to be aware of when the health of them down below 20%. If it is possible, apply Havoc in the main target or the objective with more life, and we will use Shadowburn on the objectives that are about to die, so get refill embers quickly and get a substantial increase in our damage.

We must pay special attention to Skull Banner from warriors. This 3 minute cd gives all party and raid members benefit from a 20% critical damage. Because our Chaos Bolt benefits directly from our critical this is a very important cd thing to keep in mind. After various tests, we have about this cd is equivalent to earn between 6500 and 7000 intellect. However, the trinkets gives us about 12k intellect, so we have to have a few things in mind.

Will we need to use our Chaos Bolt in the near future, due to the mechanics of the boss or punctual burst?

We will have procs of damage before having to use a Chaos Bolt to prevent reach 4 embers?

Will the damage procs previous assembly higher than 7k intellect and will keep active at the same time?

If all the above is confirmed, it is best to wait to have higher benefits before using our Chaos Bolt, if not, we will use one or more Chaos Bolt as long as the Skull Banner.

Thanks to our tier bonus 4, with an ICD of 10 seconds, each time an ember is filled, we will gain 15% crit for 5 seconds, whereby we must be vigilant to cast one Chaos Bolt and take advantage to use Inmolate, as this critical ticks will slowly refill our embers.

RACIAL

Orc : Gives us the benefit Blood Fury and increases the damage of our pets 2%.

Undead : Passively, when we attack our enemies with our spells we inflict extra damage thanks to new effect Touch of the Grave. Some fights we may also be useful Will of the Forsaken.

Troll : Gives us the benefit Berseking; increase all damage done against beasts by 5%; and provides 1% expertise with ranged weapons.

Goblin : Give us 1% haste; Rocket Barrage; and improvements in mobility through Rocket Jump.

Human : Provides 1% expertise when we equip a sword which will become 1% hit rating. Some fights we may also be usefulEvery Man for Himself.

Dwarf : Gives us the benefit Stoneform, useful in some fights, and 1% expertise with ranged weapons.

Gnome : Gives us 1% expertise when we equip daggers and swords which will become 1% hit rating.

Worgen : Gives us 1% critical strike and improved mobility thanks to Darkflight.

WEAKAURAS
If we want to have better control of our trinkets, benefits, etc., the WeakAuras 2 addon is very useful. It basically allows icons displayed on screen when any event or condition that we want, for example when we benefit from the effect of a trinket. It can be used to whatever thing we imagine, I am going to put a few codes that I find useful, feel free to change them to your taste and experiment.

NOTE:version 2.0How to import the code?Dark Soul: Instability: Dark Soul: InstabilityConflagrate: Backdraft ConflagrateHavoc: HavocFire and Brimstone: Fire and BrimstoneRain of fire: Rain of fire4 tier bonus (15% critical strike):Purified Bindings of Immerseus trinket:Sinister Primal Diamond (30% haste legendary meta gem):Shadowburn: ShadowburnKardris' Toxic Totem trinket:Black Blood of Y'Shaarj trinket:thisDelenath

Warlock Destruction Guide 5.4.8

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