Welcome to Skill Capped’s Destruction Warlock PvP Guide for The War Within 11.2.0
All sections for Destruction Warlock PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Destruction Warlocks in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Destruction Warlocks in The War Within.
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What’s New for Destruction Warlocks in The War Within?
Destruction Warlock in 11.2 hasn’t received any structural changes in terms of their rotation but have slightly more damage coming out of their primary damaging spells. This is only relevant as long as Hellcaller remains as the default Hero tree for Destruction.
Focusing on our class tree, Pact of Gluttony is our most fundamentally different talent in The War Within that dramatically improves our survivability. This allows us to use multiple Healthstones while in combat instead of being locked down to one in an arena matchup.
Aside from our class tree, we receive Hero talents that incorporate even more flavor to our core damaging spells, with us having two to choose from; Hellcaller and Diabolist.
Hellcaller is the preferred pickup here, as it converts our Immolate to Wither and becomes instant cast. Not only do we still benefit off our Immolate modifiers with Wither, making it more efficient to our rotation, but it now stacks for some passive enhancements to its overall damage. We also receive a 1 minute burst cooldown called Malevolence, which makes our globals more fluid thanks to its Haste buff, and makes Wither easier to stack for more direct damage and cleave damage.
Destruction Warlock Playstyle
Overall, the playstyle remains similar to how it was in Dragonflight. You continue using your instant casts as much as possible, especially Wither now to benefit off of Ashen Remains and Flashpoint, to deal some heavy direct damage. Making sure you are constantly using Conflagrate is essential to your rotation, as it maximizes your Backdraft uptime.
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