Warlock specialization

Demonology Warlock in WoW Forever

Fighting alongside summoned demons.

  • Your role: Ranged spell damage
  • Advice for every level to 60
  • Class notes checked

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Level 15 · Damage in a group

How to play dungeons at level 15

Your combat loop

Press the first one that is ready.

Demonology’s own loop, from level 15. Before that every Warlock plays the same loop.

Own loop from: Demonology level 15Affliction level 16Destruction level 16

  1. Life Tap Rank 1 When mana runs low

    Use it when your mana runs low.

  2. Corruption Rank 2 Keep on target · 15 sec

    Keep it on the target; it lasts 15 sec.

    20% of your damage
  3. Bane of Agony Rank 1 Keep on target · 24 sec

    Keep it on the target; it lasts 24 sec.

    16% of your damage
  4. Immolate Rank 2 Keep on target · 15 sec

    Keep it on the target; it lasts 15 sec.

    13% of your damage
  5. Shadow Bolt Rank 3 Filler

    Cast it whenever nothing above is ready.

    50% of your damage

The first 30 seconds

When to press each one from the pull. The blue line under a press is the global cooldown (1.5 sec) or cast it holds: nothing else on the global cooldown can go until it ends, so of two that are ready together the higher one goes first.

How MaxDPS works this out

Talents at level 15

6 points at level 15: the first at level 10, then one every level.

The MaxDPS build at this level, in the game’s talent frame. Click a talent to learn it and right click to unlearn it, as in the game.

Talents
Unspent Talents
Point order: when each point goes in
  1. Demonic Embrace 5/5 · levels 10–14 not counted here
  2. Fel Vitality 1/3 · level 15 +0.2% damage

Every Warlock talent

Preliminary item rankings · Dungeons

Demonology Warlock gear rankings

Caster damage with a demon, which inherits your hit, expertise and crit · Level 15 · Calculated defaults

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Shoulders 2 items · Updating…

Where it comes from
Auction prices from

Key stats show the stats behind the three largest score contributions, as the game tooltip states them; open an item’s details for every value and source.

Shoulders items with imported stats, weighted scores and acquisition sources.
Rank Item Score (pts) Where to get it Actions
1 in this filtered list
Canvas Shoulderpads Cloth · iLvl 20 · Req. 15 · Other drop Key stats: 23 Armor
0.04
Armor CrateObject loot · 3.4%
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 23 × 0.0017 = 0.04 pts

Poor

247 sources

Armor CrateObject loot · 3.4%
Kolkars' BootyObject loot · 2.5% · The Barrens
Kolkar's BootyObject loot · 2% · The Barrens
Kolkar's BootyObject loot · 2% · The Barrens
Alliance ChestObject loot · 1.5%
Battered ChestObject loot · 1.4%
Haren SwifthoofNPC drop · 1.4% · Loch Modan
Mo'grosh BruteNPC drop · 1.1% · Loch Modan
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2 in this filtered list
Mantle of the Fire Festival Cloth · iLvl 1 · Req. 1 · Quest Key stats: 2 Armor
0.00

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 2 × 0.0017 = 0.00 pts

Common

Item stats from the WoW Forever game files; sources from data collected from the live game. Auction prices are the lowest buyout on the Americas · Normal auction houses, read from Blizzard every hour; pick another region or ruleset under Filters. Which house is which ruleset is matched by size and still being confirmed in game.

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