Destruction Warlock Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Destruction Warlock Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Chaos Bolt and Rain Of Fire damage increased by 5%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Conflagrate generates 2 additional Soul Shard fragments and its damage is increased by 10%.

Tier Set Discussion:

The Season 1 Tier Set does not alter Destruction's gameplay and contributes fairly little to our overall damage. It’s still definitely worth using of course, but doesn’t require any specific change to your gameplay to get the benefits from it.

You should always 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 Destruction Warlock. Keep in mind that there are many combinations of gear that result in similar stat distributions.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Due to Destruction’s flat damage profile, we are looking to equip the 2 strongest passive trinkets we have access to, notably Vaelgor's Final Stare is an exception to this due to being very overtuned. In addition, we prefer stat sticks over damage procs because Destruction has good secondary stat scaling, especially with regards to Haste and Crit when playing Hellcaller.

Gaze Of The Alnseer - This is the BiS trinket for almost all specs in the game. It contributes a very large amount of main stat when it procs. It drops from Chimaerus the Undreamt God in The Dreamrift raid, but the item will be highly contested.

Vaelgor's Final Stare - The best on-use for most casters in the game. It lines up perfectly for Destruction when playing Inferno and gives us a large amount of added burst.

Locus-Walker's Ribbon - A Mastery stat-stick with a good intellect proc. This trinket drops from the Crown of the Cosmos boss fight in The Voidspire raid. Since it is a caster specific trinket it may be easier to get your hands on.

Shadow Of The Empyrean Requiem - A damage proc trinket that additionally grants haste in execute. A competitive alternative if you do not have 2 of the trinkets above . It drops from the Midnight Falls boss that is not active until week 3, so it may be hard to obtain.

Soulcatcher's Charm - A powerful damage proc trinket that you can farm from M+. It is unlikely to beat out the options above, but it is much easier to acquire.

Heart Of Wind + Vessel Of Tortured Souls - Passive trinket options from M+ that will be used until you get access to the superior versions in the raids.

When doing your crafts you have 2 approaches. Many people like to craft for immediate power, in which case a 2-Handed Weapon with a strong embellishment is your best choice.

The caveat here is that if you are lucky and gain a Mythic weapon early this craft will feel kind of bad, but you will still get the crest save so it is not the end of the world. Alternatively, and what I would recommend, is you can craft for long-term power.

In this case you would craft on low budget slots like Wrists or Off-hand with strong embellishments, this way you gain less immediate power but never have to worry about recrafting.

Potential Best Embellishment Crafts for Destruction Warlock:

Arcanoweave Lining - Grants main stat to yourself and an ally.

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt - Gives a stat proc based on the creature type of your target. Can be crafted on weapons, which will likely be the best first craft.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

With the release of 12.0.5 a new form of Bonus Rolls is returning called Nebulous Voidcores. The pre-requisite for getting Nebulous Voidcores is helping Decimus in the Voidstorm with constructing the Voidforge, after this you will have access to 2 Nebulous Voidcores per week.

Nebulous Voidcores can be used for both M+ and raid. In raid it costs 2 Nebulous Voidcores to grant you a guaranteed item from the encounter you just killed at the same item level as on the loot table. Whatever item you get is permanently removed from the bonus roll loot table, meaning you cannot get unlucky forever.

As an example, if you kill Mythic Vaelgor & Ezzorak and want to bonus roll for Vaelgor's Final Stare you will have a 1 in 4 chance of getting it on your first bonus roll attempt. If you get unlucky and instead receive Draconic Nullscape on your first attempt that item will never again be seen from bonus rolling the boss, this means that your next attempt will be a 1 in 3 chance of getting Vaelgor’s Final Stare. Notably this makes small loot tables with good items best to bonus roll.

In M+ it works similarly, but it only costs 1 Nebulous Voidcore to bonus roll due to the increased loot table size of dungeons. The item level dropped is also equal to that of the vault granted by the dungeon, so a +10 or higher will grant mythic item level loot when bonus rolling.

Best Bonus Rolls

The best use of your Nebulous Voidcores depends on the state of your character and what bosses you expect to kill on a weekly basis. Below is the list of bosses with small loot tables containing BiS items:

1. Crown of the Cosmos: Eternal Voidsong Chain is BiS and Locus-Walker's Ribbon is a competitive trinket. The boss also only has 3 items on its loot table.
2. Chimaerus the Undreamt God: if you are still missing Gaze Of The Alnseer, this is a good way to get it. Competition for the trinket is fierce so it’s always hard to win the regular roll on the trinket.
3. Vaelgor & Ezzorak: for your 2nd BiS trinket Vaelgor's Final Stare.
4. Midnight Falls: while it has multiple good items it only has one BiS item which is the Eye Of Midnight. The boss also has a large loot table.

Voidforge (Ascendant Voidcores)

After unlocking the Voidforge, you’ll be able to collect Ascendant Voidcores to upgrade your weapons and trinkets, via Midnight Endgame Content.

The upgrade priority is as follows:

Myth Track Weapon > Crafted Weapon > Myth Track Trinkets > Hero Track Trinkets

Once your item is ‘Ascendant Voidforged’ you will no longer be able to upgrade it.