Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Demonology Warlock in PvP in Dragonflight 10.2.6
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Demonology Warlock in PvP in Dragonflight, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most important change that came with Dragonflight – talents. We will go over the class and spec trees, as well as the best PvP talents for Demonology Warlock in Dragonflight.
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Demonology Warlock Talents Overview
Since the talent system received a huge revamp going into Dragonflight, we will cover both the class and the spec tree. They both have some mandatory and some optional talents.
Warlock Class Talents
Let’s start off by mentioning Curse of Enfeeblement, which grants us access to Curse of Tongues and Curse of Exhaustion. Coupled up with Amplify Curse, which is no longer a PvP talent, we can now easily pick this up for increased slow and cast speed reduction. Since Demo is very reliant on certain PvP talents, this change is fantastic.
Another beneficial part of the tree for Demo is the number of pet damage increase passives you can pick up. Talents like Wrathful Minion that increases your pet damage every time you get a shard, Demonic Inspiration that gives your pet attack speed when you again fill a shard and even Grimoire of Synergy to buff both your own and your pet’s damage.
The best part, though, is the new addition of Soulburn, which gives us the ability to spend shards on different types of utility. We have an entire Master in Minutes guide dedicated to this talent, so make sure you check it out.
Then we get a choice between Ichor of Devils and Frequent Donor. Both are good choices, but we would recommend playing with Ichor of Devils. Even though having a lower cooldown on Dark Pact might seem appealing, there are very few offensive cooldowns that line up with its 45 second CD when specced Frequent Donor, which can make this have less real value. Ichor is likely more consistent in a wide range of situations, but again the choice here is fairly obscure.
When choosing between Howl of Terror and Mortal Coil, Coil is the more common pick for helping you to build space to kite or even score kills. Howl can be selected in matchups where you can get value out of AoE fear, which is usually the case against melee cleaves and BM Hunters.
In the middle, we have a choice between Strength of Will that increases the effectiveness of Unending Resolve and Dark Accord which reduces its CD. With damage being so high, we recommend the increased damage reduction of Strength of Will.
We currently recommend playing both Inquisitor’s Gaze and Soulburn as endcap talents. Inquisitor’s Gaze was massively buffed in the middle of Season 1, and represents a huge part of damage. As for Soulburn, the utility offered by this talent is unmatched in PvP.
Demonology Spec Talents
The core of the build revolves around picking up all of the must-have abilities and getting strong passives to empower Dreadstalkers and Felguard.
We take Summon Vilefiend over Soul Strike as it was recently buffed and offers over 5% of your total damage. It’s also on the fire school meaning you have an additional school to cycle your casts through when dealing with interrupts and it even gets buffed by Reign of Tyranny.
Grimoire: Felguard gives us extra pet damage and stun, which makes locking down targets and bursting a lot easier.
Lastly, Summon Demonic Tyrant, which still provides a decent cooldown that extends the duration and buffs the damage of your pets even if you are not making a build focused around its damage.
Demonology Warlock PvP Talents
As for your PvP talents, there are two that are pretty much set in stone.
Master Summoner was redesigned in 10.1. This now reduces the cooldown and cast time of Dreadstalkers. This also effects Vilefiend and Tyrant and will be a default pick every game.
The only other hardlocked PvP talent is Fel Obelisk. This acts as a very strong offensive cooldown for both yourself and all of your pets, by giving increase cast and attack speed. But it can often be countered easily if your opponents are killing it. After this, your remaining slot is situational.
Soul Rip is a new PvP talent added to Warlocks in 10.1 and has become a default pick when you don’t need an extra interrupt. This talent is both an offensive and defensive talent. Offensively, it reduces the healing down by all enemy players by 25% and defensively, it also reduces the damage they deal by 25%. The enemy either has to run 20 yds to pick up their soul, alleviating pressure, or wait 8 seconds.
From here you have some situational options, include Nether Ward, which is really strong into double caster. Gateway Mastery is great into melee cleaves and gets more value on larger maps. In very niche situations, you can also play Shadow Rift. This talent is most effective if your partner has a reliable way to keep enemy players in place. Finally, we have Impish Instincts. This is another great talent that was added in 10.1. This can also be played into melee cleaves as it reduces the cooldown of your Demonic Circle when you are struck by a physical attack. Call Observer is great into double caster comps as well.
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