Demonology Warlock Talents Guide

All talent builds are subject to tuning in the early weeks of the expansion. This guide will be updated as new information and tuning is applied.

The War Within Introduces two hero talent trees for Demonology. Diabolist and Soul Harvester. Currently both Diabolist and Soul Harvester are very close to each other in terms of damage on both single target and AoE with Diabolist taking a slight edge on AoE due to the power of Ruination.

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With the current design of the class tree, we are very talent point “starved” and its hard to pick up things like Fel Domination, Shadowfury or Burning Rush without giving up something else.

Diabolist Hero Tree

This hero talent functions similar to the Dragonflight season 3 tier set. Spending a shard on a damaging spell grants Diabolic Ritual. While Diabolic Ritual is active, each Soul Shard spent on a damaging spell reduces its duration by 1 sec.

When Diabolic ritual expires you gain demonic art, causing your next hand of Gul’dan to summon an Overlord, Mother of Chaos or Pit Lord. Depending on what ritual you proc you will gain a bonus effect on one of your spells:

• Overlord: enemies damaged by your overlord take 5% increased damage from you and your pets for 15 sec.
• Mother of Chaos: Empowers your next Shadow Bolt to become an Infernal Bolt. Infernal Bolt deals bonus fire damage and generates 3 soul shards.
• Pit Lord: Summoning a Pit Lord causes your next Hand of Gul’dan to become Ruination.Ruination costs 0 shards, and calls down a meteor dealing chaos damage to all enemies within 7 yards summoning 3 imps.

Soul Harvester Hero Tree

This hero talent tree is focused on generating a ton of shards and spending them on empowered Hand of Gul’dan casts in addition to DoT and on death effects like Soul Anathema, Feast of Souls and Shared Fate. On top of that there is Necrolyte Teachings which synergizes well with the current tier set, Sacrificed Souls, and Rune of Shadows.

The entire tree is mostly passive damage, read up on it if it is interesting but for the most part there are going to be “random” sources of damage showing up on your damage meter as you do your normal rotation.