Best Destruction Warlock Talent Tree Builds - Midnight

By Loozy Updated: 2026/03/16

Destruction Warlock Talent Import CodesCurrent Recommendations

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Single Target (Best)

Raid Cleave (Best)

Delves (Best)

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]Single Target
]Raid Cleave
]Delves		Diabolic Ritual demon rotation, but apart from that they are both similar. Inherintly, wants to do better on stacked cleave where doesn't mind as much, but performs just as well on spread cleave. Best Destruction Warlock Raid Builds is the best choice for single-target in raids. When faced with more cleave-heavy scenarios, we can choose between either or . The talent setups for both Hero trees are very similar, with the only change from one to the other being that pick up Mayhem/Havoc. This talent build revolves around generating Soul Shards with our generators and spending these Shards with our major damage sources, such as Chaos Bolt. This same talent build can also be used with the Hero tree. heading=false] heading=false] Best Destruction Warlock Mythic+ Builds does very well in Mythic+. We gain a good portion of passive AoE and benefit greatly from the talent points, as most of them revolve around spending as many Soul Shards as you can. This build focuses on applying Wither to a big portion of mobs with Cataclysm and then proccing Blackened Soul from Wither stacks generated by Rain of Fire. This build is very strong on large amounts of mobs that live long enough for us to stack up and deal our damage. It also does not suffer from any diminishing returns with its AoE effects, instead scaling even better with increasing target count. The alternative is a build, which instead wants to spend Soul Shards on casting Chaos Bolt, prioritizing focus targets dealing more priority damage rather than just overall AoE damage. Depending on the situation, this build may be more benefitial for your group. I included both of them here, because they are quite different in both setup and playstyle. heading=false] heading=false] Best Destruction Delves Build Both and will do well in any Delve content. The DoT-based damage profile from might seem more appealing to some, while having the extra power spikes in your damage with will be more appealing for others. The conclusion is that you can choose either Hero Talent and then use the same talent build with both setups. heading=false] heading=false] Destruction Warlock Leveling Builds If you're searching for advice on both the best talents to pick while leveling and the optimal order in which to take them, our leveling tips page has got you covered. There, you will find information about different leveling talent builds, the recommended order in which to pick them, and information about your spec's rotation and cooldowns. Destruction Warlock Leveling Tips Our Destruction Warlock guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, simulations, and logs. Make sure to check our changelog for this page by clicking on View Changelog in the Quick Facts column or on the book icon at the top of the page. If you are interested in more in-depth Destruction Warlock guides for , make sure to browse the Navigation Bar at the top of the page. Feedback Thanks for reading our class guides! If you have any feedback, feel free to leave a comment in the section below, and we will reply as quickly as possible. If you'd like to talk with any of our writers directly, you can do so by joining our Discord server and finding them there!

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Comment by Wren

Every single talent is just "meh" to me, and its seems like all the burst comes from being a 2-3-minute CD wonder. Not that burst was ever destro's strong point in legion, but the two target cleave was nerfed pretty hard as well

Comment by naladdar

The following sentence seems to make no sense :

Conclusion: Generally speaking, Flashover is going to be the strongest option in this row. But if you're able to maintain high uptime on Shadowburn, this is your strongest option.

Comment by Doorad

You don't talk about the insane amount of dmg of playing necro and playing incinerate.
Why is that ? It seems to do better in the ST scenario.
Also for your MM+ section. What focus should we put on tyrannical ?

Comment by Sovlock

4 set tier talents with wake of ashes & roaring blaze (no deeper in tree than roaring blaze) instead of master ritualist seems to be the best ST with Necro, no infernal. Can grab Embers talent (instead of leggo) and use with Madness leggo to get both effects. Other options are Odr, Shawl of the Ymirjar for a mini 25% damage buff after decimating bolt. Ashen remains is a conduit so take eradication instead.

Comment by spartany25

Would have been nice if you included a 2-target build. I know it's just one raid boss but still cover your bases.

Comment by rinotz

Such in-depth talent builds, impressive stuff.

Comment by Himea

Can we get an update for the talents on this page? Nobody hitting top ranks in warcraftlogs is remotely following the builds recommended here.

Comment by pozomarcelo

Import codes are not working. They're from an old version. Please fix!

Comment by MindOfTim

Did they finally fix grimoire of sacrifice? It was bugged since alpha and didn't work with grimoire of synergy

Comment by DocRaven

Out of curiosity why would you not just take Fire and Brimstone and one point into Master Ritualist over Grimoire of Sacrifice since Burn to Ashes buffs Incinerates? Also no shadowfury for M+?

Comment by Cartesii

The Raid cleave build without rain of fire for primalists?

That does not sound very well :/ also for raza rain of fire should be mandatoty.

Comment by SirKarloz

Mythic pluys button doesn't copy the same build shown below

Comment by Aerynsun8449

The new Mythic build for 10.0.7 is broken. There are two points in Shadowflame where there can only be one. This prevents the rest of the build to get set when you export / import it.

Comment by Astrend

Anyone recommend a way to have both Rain of Fire (with Pyrogenics and Inferno passive buffs) and Channel of Demonfire (with Raging Demonfire passive buff)? I'd love to have both AOE spells without sacrificing too much of anything else.

Comment by Sadeas1337

I'm very, very new to Destro but how exactly does the Raid Cleave build enable cleave? Havoc is in the main build too, the only change is moving Soulfire to.. extended Immolate? How does that cleave and why no Rain of Fire?

Comment by aluccula

This page seems to be super broken. None of the talent trees are working properly at all. Also, there used to be an explanation of how the talents worked and how they interacted with the rest of the kit. This has none of that incredibly useful information that can help people understand the spec better.

Comment by Asaqq

Why Mythic+ build doesn't use dimensional rift? I heard it does good damage in aoe.

Comment by Warofhell

umm idk if this is just me but it seems all 3 ST, St-cleave and M+ are all the same builds ? like is this a mistake or just nothing better?

Comment by boyhgy

What's the point to take Diabolic Embers without taking Fire and Brimstone?

Comment by hushpupi

anyone else noticing none of these talent builds line up with what they say? top part says diabolist but bottom part says hellcaller, i copied the cleave build but doesnt take havoc? not sure if im just dumb or not understanding the talent builds :/

Comment by cwwood0322

I have noticed the M+ build in 11.0.2 here is broken due to having the Soul-Etched Circles hero talent and not having Demonic Circle talented when Soul-Etched Circle must have Demonic Circles talented! We must pay attention to what hero talents require other talents to be talented to be effective!

Comment by Junea907

The Open World/Delve Build is not working when copying.

Comment by drksiodar

The "Copy Open World/Delves" Button at the top is broken it only puts "" in the import box. make sure you go to the actual picture/export part of the page to get the string.

Comment by DivaLulu

Destro page is always outdated. No clue why Loozy is still doing this, just give another good lock the go!

Comment by Peesneeze

Mythic/aoe build is wrong. You talk about inferno and brimstone but we take neither of those talents on your build.

Comment by karaste

TLDR: The build links at the top DON'T match the build links you find in the builds themselves in the body of the page.

The Long of It: For my characters, I copy build links into an Excel spreadsheet that is set up to check for changes etc. I do two checks. 1) Is the build link different from the previous version/patch, and 2) do the build links at the top match their corresponding build links found lower down in the page. After I did my copying with this page, I noticed that the match check for #2 failed. I first double-checked to make sure I copied things correctly, then I checked to see if maybe something got transposed, etc. Nothing...so here's the data to show the links aren't the same. The first set below was obtained by clicking on the copy button of the "Import Build Directly In-Game" column. The second set was obtained by clicking on the "Export Talents" button found in each build section.

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CsQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMmxMzMjY2MwsZmZYWmNjxMmFz2YZxMDAAAAYmZmlZmZGLwAzmRMDgZL2wAAAAAAAYMzYAA Mythic+(AoE)
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CsQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgxMzMzMjY2MwsZmZYWmNzwYmFzmZbxMDAAAAMzMsMzsMjFYgZxoxMAmtYDDAAAAAAgxMzMAA Cleave Build
CsQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMmxMzMjY2MwsZmZYWmNjxMmFz2YZxMDAAAAYmZWWmZWmxCMwsZEzAY2iNMAAAAAAAGzMGAA Mythic+(AoE)
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Comment by Toomuchswag

Which %^&*!@ made talents for mythic+? Idk what type of drugs did you took but taking lower cast time on healthstones instead of shadowfury is most idiotic choice which i ever saw on wowhead guides. Again guy making wowhead guide don't even play wow or is stuck on 3k rio.

Comment by San4311

Not sure why this guide recommends taking Demonfire Infusion for M+ (or at all!) but it is currently terrible. I've ran a +11 and +12 to test it out and it did a massive 1% overall damage where normally it would be one of my highest damage spells when manually casting.

Ofcourse there is opportunity cost for using it vs. it being passive but right now it is having nowhere near the same impact as a manual cast Demonfire after dotting a pack with Cataclysm.

Comment by Skullzar

I'm about 95% sure this guide is outdated. No one on Warcraft Logs is using the listed talents. You can even look up Loozyy and see that he doesn’t use what’s shown here. No idea why he’s still writing guides—you’d think Wowhead would want someone who actually keeps the guide current.

Also, it's great to see that Wowhead still allows a paid WeakAura plug for his Twitch, but at least it’s not like the Dragonflight guide, where it was the only one listed.

For anyone who’s looking for better resources, I recommend checking out Archon.gg or Kalamazi—they’re much better sources.

Comment by Vraeya

For the raid cleave build it only shows hellcaller hero talents and not diabolist when it lists them both.

Comment by Therealmomo

These builds are terrible and the M+ AoE build misses vital talents that almost any warlock should be taking.

Comment by wmarczak

Why are there 34 talent points being used on the Warlock tree when there are only 31 talent points available for a max level character in the Pre-Midnight patch that was just launched?

Comment by HexiaT

One point is missing in the build of M+ HellCaller AOE (from exporting talents)

Comment by Blazethesage

All of these builds are broken for Midnight Pre-patch; the class trees all use too many points; we have 31 points for the class tree, these builds ALL use about 34.

Comment by Sazapahiel

Another patch another broken guide. These are currently using more talents than are available in the game, while not using all the hero talents.

Comment by wmarczak

Why is there a talent missing from the Diabolist hero tree?

Comment by Eyevy

Half of these talent builds are already outdated.

Don't know. Why we don't get some one who actually plays destro instead of some one that plays other classes now. This guy is so lazy on half of his guides and recommendations.

Just puts in the bare minimum compared to half the other class writers

Comment by spoono

Just to let you know just incase you arent aware but all of the Diabolist Builds still have 1 Skill Point left to assign in the Hero Talents

Comment by basicbreeze943

How come you're not using Cataclysm in the Destro Delve builds? Seems strange

Best Destruction Warlock Talent Tree Builds - Midnight

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