Warlock specialization

Destruction Warlock in WoW Forever

Direct Fire and Shadow spells.

  • Your role: Ranged spell damage
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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.

Every Warlock plays this loop at level 15. Destruction’s own loop starts at level 16.

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.

    17% of your damage
  3. Bane of Agony Rank 1 Keep on target · 24 sec

    Keep it on the target; it lasts 24 sec.

    14% of your damage
  4. Immolate Rank 2 Keep on target · 15 sec

    Keep it on the target; it lasts 15 sec.

    11% of your damage
  5. Shadow Bolt Rank 3 Filler

    Cast it whenever nothing above is ready.

    56% of your damage
  6. Wand Wand

    When your mana runs out.

    2% 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.

In the gaps
Life TapShadow BoltWand

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. Bane 5/5 · levels 10–14 +9.6% damage
  2. Improved Shadow Bolt 1/5 · level 15 not counted here

Every Warlock talent

Preliminary item rankings · Dungeons

Destruction Warlock gear rankings

Direct Fire and Shadow damage · Level 15 · Calculated defaults

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Where it comes from
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Materials: . Each reagent counts at the lower of a vendor’s price and its lowest buyout.

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.

Head items with imported stats, weighted scores and acquisition sources.
Rank Item Score (pts) Where to get it Actions
1 in this filtered list
Flying Tiger Goggles Cloth · iLvl 20 · Req. 15* · Crafted · Profession required Key stats: 4 Stamina4 Spirit27 Armor
1.05
EngineeringCrafted
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Stamina: 4 × 0.1725 = 0.69 pts
  • Spirit: 4 × 0.08 = 0.32 pts
  • Armor: 27 × 0.0014 = 0.04 pts

Uncommon · Profession required — check item requirements

Source

EngineeringCrafted
2 in this filtered list
Red Winter Hat Cloth · iLvl 1 · Req. 1 · Other drop Key stats: 2 Armor
0.00
War Master VooneBoss drop · 16% · Blackrock Spire

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 2 × 0.0014 = 0.00 pts

Uncommon

62 sources

War Master VooneBoss drop · 16% · Blackrock Spire
Cannon Master WilleyBoss drop · 11% · Stratholme
Suffering VictimNPC drop · <0.1% · Scarlet Monastery
Thaurissan AgentNPC drop · <0.1% · Burning Steppes
Forsaken IntruderNPC drop · <0.1% · Ashenvale
Foulweald ShamanNPC drop · <0.1% · Ashenvale
Sickly RefugeeNPC drop · <0.1% · Silverpine Forest
Firegut OgreNPC drop · <0.1% · Burning Steppes
All 62 sources
3 in this filtered list
Green Winter Hat Cloth · iLvl 1 · Req. 1 · Other drop Key stats: 2 Armor
0.00
Darkmaster GandlingNPC drop · 8.4% · Scholomance

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 2 × 0.0014 = 0.00 pts

Uncommon

67 sources

Darkmaster GandlingNPC drop · 8.4% · Scholomance
Prince TortheldrinBoss drop · 3.8% · Dire Maul
Kenata DabyrieNPC drop · <0.1% · Arathi Highlands
Scarlet MageNPC drop · <0.1% · Western Plaguelands
Gelkis StamperNPC drop · <0.1% · Desolace
Razormane ScoutNPC drop · <0.1% · Durotar
Splinter Fist WarriorNPC drop · <0.1% · Duskwood
Tortured DruidNPC drop · <0.1% · Silithus
All 67 sources
4 in this filtered list
Crown of the Fire Festival Cloth · iLvl 1 · Req. 1 · Quest Key stats: 2 Armor
0.00
A Thief's RewardQuest reward

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 2 × 0.0014 = 0.00 pts

Common

2 sources

A Thief's RewardQuest reward
A Thief's RewardQuest reward

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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