Demonology Warlock Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Hand Of Gul'dan damage increased by 15%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Your Dreadstalkers deal 10% increased damage and last 3 additional sec.

The tier set is largely uninteresting. It does not have a big impact on playstyle and the damage gained from it seems largely underwhelming. It slightly favors Diabolist in terms of impact, but it does not automatically decide the Hero Talent choice.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Demonology Warlock, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

A good guideline at the moment is: Item Level > Crit > Haste / Mastery >> Versatility.

The three trinkets that really stand out are Emberwing Feather, Vaelgor's Final Stare and Locus-Walker's Ribbon.

Luckily, the Emberwing Feather Trinket is farmable in Season 1 of Midnight in Mythic+. The Crucible Of Erratic Energies (Voidstorm trinket) is a surprisingly good trinket for being capped at 263 item level and can easily be a bridge until a better passive trinket is acquired such as Locus-Walker's Ribbon.

As a general rule you want to use 1 on-use and 1 passive trinket, however, the correct answer for your specific character is always going to be sim which is the best.

A combination of these trinkets is advised.

On-use Trinkets:

• Emberwing Feather (BiS)
• Vaelgor's Final Stare (Alternative)

Passive Trinkets:

• Locus-Walker's Ribbon (BiS)
• Crucible Of Erratic Energies (Alternative)

Embellishments are additional effects you place on crafted items that increase their power.Most of the time this will boil down to which embellishment or embellishment combo is performing the best.If you have access to full max level 6/6 myth gear these embellishments will be crafted on lower stat budget pieces such as bracers, offhand, cloak etc as they can only be crafted to 285 item level while max item level on gear is 289.

However, if you don’t have access to the best gear in the game, but you do have access to Mythic crests then this logic flips and you would want to craft embellishments on HIGH budget pieces such as Chest or a Weapon.

Best Embellishments and Crafted Gear for Demonology Warlock

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt is looking like the strongest embellishment at the moment.

If you want an early power spike that does not reduce end game power almost at all, then I recommend crafting a 285 item level 2-handed staff (Aln'hara Cane) with the Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt Embellishment as soon as you acquire enough Myth Crests (make sure its the INTELLECT ONE).

This is not a waste of crests and will give you the biggest power spike for the lowest cost. You can even craft the base item level 259 staff as soon as you acquire the sparks to do so and recraft it to 285 once you reach 80 myth crests.

These are the recommended Embellishments for now:

• Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt (can only be crafted on weapon/offhand)
• Arcanoweave Lining (any armor pieces, not rings/neck)