Welcome to Skill Capped’s Destruction Warlock PvP Guide for 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 Destruction Warlock in PvP in Dragonflight, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena.
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Table of Contents
In this section, we will cover the biggest changes to the design of Destruction Warlock in Dragonflight and some of their playstyle implications. Obviously, the main driving force for all adjustments this expansion comes from talents, and we will dive deeper into them a bit later. For now, let’s focus on the bigger picture.
What’s New for Destruction Warlock in Dragonflight?
Overall, Destruction has access to a very similar toolkit as the one it had in Shadowlands. Most of its core gameplay remains the same, but with a greater focus on instant cast damage. The main differences going into Dragonflight are in the form of some welcome new additions coupled with the flexibility in the new talent system. It now opens up the opportunity to take the best parts of a lot of previous builds and mix and match them.
A great new addition is Soulburn. This new capstone talent in the Warlock tree allows you to use shards for utility purposes, which includes improving your Demonic Circle by attaching a freedom effect and movement speed increase; improving your Demonic Gateway to make it instant, which solves the issue of ever getting stopped on your summon at the start of arena; and you can even use it with Healthstone to increase the healing and increase your maximum health.
Destruction Warlock Playstyle in Dragonflight
Destruction Lock has changed dramatically in terms of its damage profile. Instead of Chaos Bolt being your primary source of damage, you are instead able to deal lots of instant cast damage with Conflagrate, Shadowburn, and Dimensional Rift. This makes it easier to deal with the growing amount of disruption from enemy melee.
There are a lot of options when it comes to damage. And if what you enjoyed from Destruction was annoying your opponents, you can still expect a heavy emphasis on CC and disruption. That is due to familiar curses like Curse of Tongues, Curse of Weakness and Curse of Exhaustion being available through talents alongside the option to pick up Amplify Curse on top of it.