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Ranged DPS · Caster staff or one-hand, off-hand and wand

Demonology Warlock

Demonic Pact, Master Demonologist, Demonic Knowledge, Soul Link, Demonic Sacrifice and Demonic Brand. The pet is half your damage and half your defence; Soul Link makes you the hardest caster to kill.

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How Demonology plays

Keep the Felhunter or Succubus alive and brand the target; Corruption, Immolate, Shadow Bolt. Demonic Sacrifice the Succubus for Shadow damage on a raid fight if your pet would die anyway. Soul Link plus Master Demonologist Voidwalker in PvP.

Key talents

Talents

Demonology Warlock build (20/31/0) · 20/31/0 · click any talent to edit in the builder
Affliction20
2/25/55/5
0/20/23/3
1/20/31/13/30/50/20/1
0/10/3
0/5
0/1
Demonology31
0/20/35/55/50/20/33/31/20/31/12/2
0/2
1/13/30/31/13/3
5/5
1/1
Destruction0
0/20/50/5
0/50/30/5
0/50/1
0/30/30/1
0/20/10/3
0/5
0/1
PvE20/31/0
Demonology Warlock build (20/31/0)
Demonic Pact, Master Demonologist, Demonic Knowledge, Soul Link, Demonic Sacrifice and Demonic Brand with Improved Corruption, Suppression, Improved Drains and Pandemic. The safest Warlock for solo play and dungeons.

Rotation and priority

  1. Pet out, Demonic Brand on the target
  2. Corruption, Curse of Agony or Elements
  3. Immolate on long fights
  4. Shadow Bolt as the filler
  5. Life Tap when below half mana; Soul Link absorbs the damage
  6. Demonic Sacrifice only when the pet adds nothing to the fight

Tips

  • Demonic Knowledge turns pet Stamina and Intellect into your spell power: feed the pet Stamina through Master's Stamina and gear.
  • Fel Domination lets you resummon instantly after a pet death.
  • Leveling: the Voidwalker with Master Demonologist holds three mobs while you dot them.

Stat priority

  1. 1Spell hit to 16%
  2. 2Stamina (Demonic Knowledge)
  3. 3Spell power
  4. 4Intellect
  5. 5Spell crit

Weapon: Caster staff or one-hand, off-hand and wand. Check what each ability actually hits for at your numbers in the damage calculator.

Best recorded drops by slot

Highest item level in the dungeon loot records that fits Demonology; raid gear is added when raids open on 9 December

No recorded drops match yet.

Full item list with every recorded source on the items page.

Leveling as Demonology

Warlock levels fastest as Affliction; see the class leveling page for why. Demonology can still level with the build below if you want to practise the spec you will play at 60.

Warlock leveling pageRoute planner

Tier for leveling: A

Leveling tier weighs kill speed, downtime and safety alone. See the best leveling class guide for the full ranking and the speed guide for the route.

Questions players ask

Is Demonology good in WoW Forever?
Launch-week assessment: B tier for PvE, A tier for PvP and A tier for leveling. Demonic Pact, Master Demonologist, Demonic Knowledge, Soul Link, Demonic Sacrifice and Demonic Brand. The pet is half your damage and half your defence; Soul Link makes you the hardest caster to kill.
What stats does a Demonology Warlock want?
In order: Spell hit to 16%, Stamina (Demonic Knowledge), Spell power, Intellect, Spell crit.
What weapon should Demonology use?
Caster staff or one-hand, off-hand and wand.