Demonology Warlock Midnight 12.1 Guide

My name is Sjele. I play mostly warlock as long as it is good and when it is not I cry as I reroll to whatever is. I was a raider in Method for multiple expansions and have since moved into a role as DPS analyst, always aiming to extract every little bit from whatever warlock spec I'm currently playing, with demonology being my favourite.

Demonology Warlock Overview

Demonology is a fairly simple builder/spender where you build resources and spend them on summoning demons. An easy way to think about it is that every demon is a damage over time effect or a “DoT”, but instead of the effect being on a target it is a demon on the ground.

Demonology is very good at doing sustained single target and cleave as long as the enemies are stacked.

Forced Movement during cooldowns and spread cleave are clear weaknesses of the spec.

In my opinion, demonology is extremely fun to play and once you get into it it feels very natural in terms of the “flow” of the gameplay.

Patch 12.1 Changes for Demonology Warlock

General Warlock Changes:

• Drain Life health drain increased by 25%.
• Zevrim's Resilience healing increased by 25%.
• Summon Demonic Gateway is now a Utility spell by default in the Cooldown Manager.
• Fixed an issue where several abilities would not grant Soul Leech:
• Wither
• Blackened Soul
• Infernal Bolt
• Soul Anathema
• Wicked Reaping
• Avatar Of Destruction’s Chaos Bolt
• Unstable Affliction
• Malefic Grasp
• Vilefiend’s Headbutt and Bile Spit
• Gloomhound’s Gloom Slash
• Wild Imp and Imp Gang Boss’s Fel Firebolt
• Imp Lord’s Greater Felbolt
• Demonic Tyrant’s Demonfire
• Fixed an issue where several abilities erroneously granted Soul Leech:
• Legion Strike
• Cunning Cruelty
• Channel Demonfire

Demonology Changes

• Shadow Bolt damage increased by 45%.
• Demonbolt damage increased by 55%.
• Summon Gloomhound damage increased by 35%.
• Hero Talents
• Diabolist
• Chaos Salvo damage reduced by 20%.
• Felseeker damage reduced by 20%.
• Wicked Cleave damage reduced by 20%.
• Eye Explosion damage reduced by 20%.
• Flames Of Xoroth now increases Fire damage and damage dealt by your demons by 3% (was 4%).

The tl;dr of all of this is this:

• Soul Leech bugs have been fixed
• Drain Life Healing Increased
• Diabolist Cleave is Nerfed
• Single target specific abilities and talents like Shadow Bolt/Demonbolt and Gloomhound have been buffed significantly.