Destruction Warlock Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Destruction Warlock Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Incinerate damage increased by 25% and Incinerate has a 10% increased chance to evoker an Echo Of Sargeras.
• (4) Set Bonus: Targets damaged by Echo Of Sargeras take 6% increased damage from your spells and abilities for 6 seconds.

Tier Set Discussion:

The Season 2 Tier Set bonuses are relatively passive and do not require anything substantial to gameplay or talent choices.

Incinerate still acts as a filler and does not take priority over casting any of our Soul Shard spending abilities or Conflagrate, and maintaining the 6% increased damage taken debuff on targets should come naturally through our expected playstyle.

You should always prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, there are many factors such as stat distributions and item level. That said, the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Destruction Warlock.

Keep in mind that the lists below assume you are receiving these items at maximum possible item level, specifically for M+ items.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - This trinket is our BIS even throughout the trinket tuning that has occurred early in 12.1, and should be a priority to obtain whenever possible. The trinket works by providing random buffs and can proc often with the buffs overlapping.

These buffs include increasing all of your secondary stats by a significant amount, giving you a fading vers buff, giving you a fading mastery buff, giving you a ramping crit buff, giving you a flat haste buff, but at the risk of receiving a stat debuff on all secondary stats. Even accounting for the stat debuff, this trinket is very powerful.

Vexhul's Everflowing Gland - Vexhul’s is a very close second for our best trinkets, but still comes in at third overall. This is a trinket with a 3 minute cooldown that is better used on enemies with higher health given the on-use effect, and provides a 5 second CDR to the trinket for each enemy you kill.

Wavecaller's Seastone - Currently this is our second best simming trinket, and it is available via the world boss so this should be easy to obtain. This is competitive with Vexhul's Everflowing Gland, and recommended as the trinket to target early given Vexhul’s is further into the raid. It provides a flat haste buff with an effect that provides a ramping intellect buff.

Freightrunner's Flask - Thanks for our Inferno talent making our Summon Infernal ability 90 seconds, this trinket synergizes extremely well with our toolkit. It similarly has a 90 second cooldown and can be used every time we cast Summon Infernal and provides a substantial amount of Critical Strike.

This is a strong trinket to target early, even without bonus rolls, that’s obtainable from M+.

Mindpiercer's Sigil - This trinket is not our strongest for single target or cleave scenarios, but is noticeable in M+. There are no passive stats, and the effect causes an eruption of damage to your target and nearby enemies and provides an intellect buff. This is one of our stronger M+ trinkets to chase, but falls short when compared to raid trinkets.

Sapling Of The Dawnroot - This is another competitive choice, but there’s a caveat. This provides a passive intellect buff and it has a chance to spawn a little Lasher to help fight in combat for 15 seconds, and the caveat is whether the lasher can keep up. It’s possible during moments of high movement or target swapping that the little add spawns doesn’t get its full damage off, though this still sims well.

Going into Season 2, we have the same situation as Season 1 in regards to crafting and embellishments. You can craft a weapon early with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt, or you can craft an armor piece (ideally bracers or a cloak) with Arcanoweave Lining.

For the start of the season the best choice for DPS is to obtain a weapon, thus crafting a weapon if you do not have a myth-track level weapon. However, if you do receive a myth-level staff before crafting, you would be better off targeting crafting an armor piece with the Arcanoweave Lining embellishment. By the time you’re able to craft, if you have not received a myth-level weapon it is suggested to start with crafting a weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.

Crafting bracers and a cloak each with the Arcanoweave Lining embellishment is our BIS, however if you choose to target this before receiving a weapon, you would be putting yourself at a substantial disadvantage until you receive a myth-level mainhand weapon.

Best Embellishment Crafts for Destruction Warlock:

Arcanoweave Lining - Grants main stat to yourself and an ally. Strongly suggested to craft a cloak and bracers, as they offer the least intellect lost compared to non-crafted pieces.

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt - Gives a stat proc based on the creature type of your target. Can be crafted on weapons, mainhand or offhand.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores) will be available from the second week of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing the questline, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Destruction Warlock:

• Row 1: Rune of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune of Self-Mending
• Row 3: Rune of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune of Critical Power
• Row 5: Rune of Overload

Rune of Self-Mending is picked to get some passive healing, which helps countering Rot damage.

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.