Warlock Destruction PVE Guide @ 5.4.8
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Table of contents:
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1. Introduction
2. From Cataclysm to Pandaria
3. About Main Spells
4. Stats
5. Talents
6. Rotations
7. Glyphs.
8. Consumables
9. Gems
10. Enchants
11. Pets
12. Racials
13. Profesions
14. About Burning Embers
15. Pre-Raid Items and BiS Items
The destruction specialization presents as one of the greatest DPS spec of this expansion.The rotation is very easy to learn but it takes a while to master it. Is the only easy spec of Warlock.
We are in a specialization that has suffered a complete remodeling from Cataclysm, characterized by explosive damage and power.
In the previous expansion, Cataclysm, Destruction was a completely broken class, since both Affliction and Demonology were able to much greater damage than this, both in AOE as in a single target. But with the arrival of Mist of Pandaria this ends thanks to new mechanical with
Chaotic Energy becoming in one specialization rather than viable in most figths.
What changes have taken place?
• Thanks to the new passive ability
Pandemic we will be forced to refresh the periodic damage spells
Immolate in our case before its full duration.
• In certain fights, we can stop relying on our minions thanks to talent
Grimoire of Sacrifice .
• Our skills
Chaos Bolt and
Shadowburn will made a tremendous amount of damage, spending
Burning Embers
•
Aftermath will allow us to use
Rain of Fire without channeling, working as a periodic extra effect!
• New cooldowns will grant us a great survival:
Unending Resolve ,
Dark Bargain and
Sacrificial Pact.
1.
Immolate - It is our main source of periodic damage. It has 2 second cast and creates
Burning Embers if it does a critical hit.
2.
Incinerate – It respresents our filler when all important spells are on CD. Consume a charge of
Backdraft. Generates
Burning Embers at hit and double at crit.
3.
Conflagrate - This is an instant spell who has 2 charges and regenerates every 12 seconds.
Burning Embers at hit and double at crit.Also,generates 3 charges at
Backdraft which can stack 2 times reducing cast time and mana at 3 or 6
Incinerate or cast time with 30% at 1 or 2
Chaos Bolt. It is important to always have at least one charge of
Conflagrate because we are losing an important source of damage.
4.
Rain of Fire - This is an AOE spell where we can place in our desired location. It last 8 seconds. If the target is affected by
Immolate it will have 50% more damage. It's considerated as periodic damage.
5.
Chaos Bolt - This spell is the most powefull of destruction warlock. This spell will always be a critical and benefits directly of warlock's crit. It's preferably to be casted with your procs or when we benefit of lots of burning embers.
Chaos Bolt consumes 3 stacks of
Havoc .
6.
Shadowburn - One of most important spells that destruction warlock can cast which consumes
Burning Embers and is used when the target is under 20% HP. This consumes only one charge of
Havoc and is great to improve our DPS. To keep in mind, its generating 2
Burning Embers when is casted on the target and dies or 15% of our entire mana when the target is not killed while
Shadowburn is up.
7.
Havoc - Is an instant spell with 0.5 GCD seconds having 25 seconds of total cooldown. When is casted on the target it has 2 charges. Is ideal for encounters with 2 targets because it works like Bane of Havof from Cataclysm expansion.
8.
Fire and Brimstone - This spell is included on AOE ones because it makes
Immolate ,
Incinerate ,
Conflagrate and
CoE to affect all the adds on 10 yards consuming
Burning Embers. Because it's AOE,the damage of the spell will be reduced by 50-55%. The best use for this is in encounters with many adds along with
Rain of Fire. (
Immolate +
Rain of Fire = LOVE )
9.
Dark Soul:Instability - This "self buff" is the most important of warlock's buff because the critical stike is increased by 30%.
Thanks to the passive ability Pandemic, refresh Immolateis less changed. In Cataclysm we are waiting Immolate to finish the duration,after that we refresh. Now the refresh will be 7-8 seconds before ending because this spell of 14 seconds will last 20-23 seconds causing an extra DOT because we are giving less refresh.
Intellect and Hit Chance.
Our main stat is intellect which gives us 1.05 Spell Power /Intellect point.
At 2548 intellect we recive 1% Critical Chance.
Hit Change is important too because our spells need to hit the target. The amount of required Hit Raiting for not to miss decreased from 17% to 15% and these numbers mean 5100 Hit Rating. Like Mastery,Hit Raiting don't benefits of decimal fractions (n,99) which means that is not important if we have 14,99% Hit Chance because it will be calculated as 14%
340 hit rating = 1% hit
Haste:
Haste reduces the time of our spells having a faster regenerate of
Burning Embers. Because of
Chaotic Energy , we are regenerating mana more fast and efficient.
425 haste points = 1% haste.
Mastery:
Mastery's percentage increases the given damage with normal spells but also with the ones who need
Burning Embers
200 mastery points = 1% mastery
Critical Strike:
Our Crits are giving 200% of the normal damage. Beside that,crits give us 2x
Burning Embers.
600 critical strike rating = 1% critical.
Finally our point is:
INTELLECT > SPELL POWER > HIT (15%) > MASTERY > HASTE >~ CRITICAL STRIKE @ item level 550
INTELLECT > SPELL POWER > HIT (15%) > MASTERY = CRITICAL STRIKE > HASTE @ item level - 550+
Note: We will choose Critical Strike above item level 550 because when we crit we generate 2x emberbits!
Now we will take each talent. I will tell you about the mentioned talents because they are the most important for Destruction. If you want to do experiments feel free but I recommend you this spec because is the good one.
Soul Leech:
• This talent gives us a shield which absorbs 10% of the damage that we make with Incinerate, 
Fel Flame, Chaos Bolt and Shadowburn for 15 seconds. This can be changed with Dark Regeneration depending of the difficulty of the encounter to help healers.
Shadowfury
• This talent is recommended for adds and to create control over them.
Soul Link
• This talent shares 20% of the damage taken by us with our pet. If we use Grimoire of Sacrifice withthis talent our Hp increases by 20%
Burning Rush
• We are using this talent in general usually to escape from the damage zones or to move faster.
• Grimoire of Sacrifice
• This talent is important for our DPS because our damage is increased by 15% for Incinerate, Conflagrate and Fel Flame iar Chaos Bolt will give an extra 15% damage from the initial DOT damage on boss. Beside all of the benefits we will receive 2% heal from our maximum health every 5 seconds.
ATTENTION
Spells used through Fire and Brimstone will not receive damage increase!
Kil'Jaeden's Cunning
This will be your choice depending on encounters because:
• If we don’t move a lot during the encounter we will use 
Archimonde's Darkness because we have 2 charges of Dark Soul:Instability
• In fights with many adds we will use 
Manoroth's Fury because of the increase of AOE range and having a great damage increase.
• In raids with a lot of movement we will use Kil'Jaeden's Cunning. I choosed this talent , because its an interesting one because until now the warlock was casting when moving only Fel Flame.
• Initial Burst:
PrePot -> Dark Soul:Instability -> Terrorguard -> Immolate -> Conflagrate X2 -> Incinerate x4 -> Chaos Bolt depends of how many Burning Embers we have [the best is 3 or higher]
• Single Target Rotation:
[b]Rotation #1
PrePot ->
Dark Soul:Instability->
Immolate ->
Chaos Bolt->
Conflagrate ->
Incinerate ->
Fel Flame if you don’t have
Kil'Jaeden's Cunning but if you have change it with
Rain of Fire .
!!! UNDER 20% WE WILL USE
SHADOWBURN INSTEAD OF
CHAOS BOLT!
Now you’re asking why I put
Chaos Bolt after
Immolate and I will answer to you:
I choose to put
Chaos Bolt at the beginning of the rotation because the damage of this spell increases at the same time with out crit. In burst you have all your procs active so it will give a higher damage than the normal rotation with no procs active.
Rotation #2
Pre Pot ->
Curse of Elements->
Dark Soul:Instability ->
Immolate ->
Conflagrate x2 ->
Incinerate
x 4 ->
Chaos Bolt
•
AOE Rotation:
• 2 - 4 targets:
Rain of Fire =>
Immolate =>
Havoc =>
Chaos Bolt /
Shadowburn
• 5 or more targets :
Rain of Fire => Se va folosi
Fire and Brimstone to cast
Conflagrate and
Incinerate.
The most indicate in the fights with many Adds is recommended to put a talent point in
Manoroth's Fury
Glyphs are not that important anymore so they will stay as a personal decision. I will present what has been changed or new.
There are 2 types:
-
Major Glyph – Influents some of the spells
-
Minor Glyph – Just to give a “fresh air” to the game.
Major Glyphs:
•
Glyph of Siphon Life : Will make
Immolate to generate a 0.5% heal of our HP.
•
Glyph of Drain Life :
Drain life will heal us with 30% more.
•
Glyph of Demon Training: Will make the Imp not cast just one fel bolt consuming 40 energy but cast in 3 bursts consuming 130 energy. This is the most important glyph for warlock because our Imp will have a stronger burst. The duration between the attacks takes longer but as you know a plus of DPS is represented by burst.
•
Glyph of Havoc : This glyph will make the spell
Havoc having from 3 charges to 6 charges with a cooldown of 35 seconds.
•
Glyph of Curse of the Elements : This glyph will make
CoE to apply on 2 more tagets.
Minor Glyphs:
• All of these glyphs are just for fun and depends on the choice of player.None of them influence the DPS during the boss fighting.
**I have showed just glyphs that I thought were good for destruction.
The best 90 consumables are:
•
Flask:
Flask of the Warm Sun
•
Potion:
Potion of the Jade Serpent
•
Food: 
Mogu Fish Stew
• Meta Gem:
Burning Primal Diamond /
Sinister Primal Diamond
• Blue Socket:
Sensei’s Wild Jade
• Red Socket:
Artful Vermilion Onyx /
Keen Vermilion Onyx
• Yellow Socket:
Fractured Sun’s Radiance /
Fractured Serpent’s Eye JWC ONLY
• Shoulders:
Greater Crane Wing Inscription /
Secret Crane Wing Inscription Inscription Only
• Cloak:
Enchant Cloak: Superior Intellect
• Chest:
Enchant Chest: Glorius Stats
• Bracers:
Enchant Bracer: Superior Intellect
• Gloves:
Enchant Gloves: Superior Mastery
• Belt:
Living Steel Belt Buckle
• Legs:
Greater Cerulean Spellthread
• Boots:
Pandaren’s Steps
• Rings:
Enchant Ring: Greater Intelect Enchanters Only
• Weapon:
Enchant Weapon: Jade Spirit
• Off-Hand:
Enchant Off-Hand: Major Intellect
Observer : This pet does melee damage and uses the magic ability
Tongue Lash. Can interrupt the cast and silence for 6 seconds.
Fel Imp : Is the only warlock’s caster pet and it has a big change over the others: at the beginning of our fight it moves alone to the target and when you change the target it will assist you without interupting your spell cast. His abilities are extremely useful. It is the best choice when it comes to PvE.
Shivarra : This pet makes melee damage with the help of
Fellash and it can give knock-back on players / adds for 5 yards. This is not useful in PvE .
Void Lord : This pet makes melee damage with
Torment . It also has a shield called
Void Shield which reduces his damage taken and does damage to enemy. With the help of this pet you can disarm your target. I don’t recommend this in PvE because the cost of the abilities is high and the damage is low.
Terrorguard : This pet gives 20% more damage to targets with under 20% HP. It can be summoned anytime but the best is in fights over 10 minutes , when you have burst but also at the end of the fight.
Abyssal (wowhead link) It didn’t change at all except the instant cast time. I don’t recommend to be used if there aren’t 5 adds or more during the encounter.
*** All that whas written above it refers at pets that are summoned having a talent point in
Grimoire of Supremacy ***
Horde
• 
Orc: Gives us the ability to use their racial, Blood Fury which increases both our and pet damage with 2%
• 
Undead: Passive,when we attack the enemies we have the chance of our spell to give extra damage because of the new passive of the undead, Touch of the Grave
• 
Troll : This race gives us the passive Berserking which increases our spells haste by 20% . - BEST WARLOCK RACE - because Berserking > Blood Fury
• 
Goblin : This race give us 1% haste.
Aliance
• 
Human : Not indicated.
• 
Dwarf : This race has the benefit of Stoneform which reduces our damage taken with 10%
• 
Worgen : We grant 1% Critical Strike - BEST WARLOCK RACE @ ALLY!
• 
Gnome: Bigger mana pool
Tailoring: This profession will have an enchant for our back which when we give damage we receive 2000 Intellect for 15 seconds with an ICD of 45 seconds.
Blacksmithing: This profession will let us put 2 more sockets on bracers and hands.
Enchanting: Having this profession will let us put enchants on rings and receive a 320 Intellect bonus.
Alchemy: It gives us a 320 Intellect bonus from the flask and the flask will last longer.
Leatherworking: We can enchant our wrists from 180 Intellect to 320.
Inscription: We can enchant our shoulders and recive 120 more Intellect than normal enchant.
Jewelcrafting: In this expansion we will no longer benefit of 3 sockets just 2 and gaining 320 Intellect.
**Credits to Advance
Burning Embers they are an unic source of warlock destruction and they can be seen under the HP bar of the player. A warlock can have 4 Burning Embers and each of them are composed from 10 little parts. They are gained by casting some spells and become available when you have level 42.
Abilities that produce Burning Embers
Incinerate - 1 Emberbits
Incinerate Critical Hit - 2 Emberbits
Immolate Critical Ticks - 1 Emberbits
Fel Flame - 1 Emberbits
Fel Flame Critical Hits - 2 emberbits
Conflagrate - 1 Emberbits
Conflagrate Critical Hits - 2 Emberbits
Shadowburn kill - 20 Emberbits
Abilities that consume Burning Embers
Chaos Bolt- 1 Burning Embers
Shadowburn - 1 Burning Embers
Ember Tap- 1 Burning Embers
Incinerate via Fire and Brimstone - 1 Burning Embers
Conflagrate via Fire and Brimstone - 1 Burning Embers
Immolate via Fire and Brimstone - 1 Burning Embers
Flames of Xoroth - 1 Burning Embers
BoE Items.
Head:
Darkened Hood
Should:
Darkened Shoulders
Chest:
Natli's Fireheart Robe
Wrist:
Darkened Bracers
Hands:
Rittsyn's Ruinblasters
Waist:
Darkened Belt
Legs:
Darkened Pants
Feet:
Darkened Boots
Neck:
Dorian's Necklace of Burgeoning Dreams
Ring1:
Ring of the Shipwrecked Prince
Ring2:
Anaxo's Multi-Layered Seal
Cloak:
Dirl's Drafty Drape
One hand:
Amber Spine of Klaxxi'vess
Off-Hand:
Scroll of Whispered Secrets
World Boss Quests:
Sha of Anger:
Hands:
Sha-Skin Gloves
Legs:
Sha-Skin Leggings
Galleon:
Head:
Sky-Sear Cowl
Feet:
Slippers of Fiery Retribution
Chest:
Robes of the Lightning Rider
Belt:
Belt of Detonation
Neck:
Necklace of Imbued Fury
Ring:
Ring of Wretched Flames
Heroic Dungeons Items:
# Gate of the Setting Sun ( GotSS )
*Saboteur Kip'tilak*
Head:
Fallout Filter
Neck:
Pendant of Precise Timing
*Striker Ga'dok*
Trinket:
Vision of the Predator
Hands:
Bomber's Precision Gloves
*Commander Ri'mok*
Legs:
Leggings of the Frenzy
*Raigonn*
Wrist:
Frenzyswarm Bracers
Shoulders:
Shoulders of Engulfing Winds
# Siege of Niuzao Temple ( SoNT )
*Commander Vo'jak*
Bombardment Bracers
*General Pa'valak*
Hands:
Breezebinder Handwraps
Trinket:
Vial of Ichorous Blood
*Wing Leader Ner'onok*
Head:
Breezeswept Hood
Shoulders:
Whisperwind Spaulders
Staff:
Gustwalker Staff
# Mogu'Shan Palace ( MP )
*Trial of the King*
Hands:
Conflagrating Gloves
*Gekkan*
Back:
Cloak of Cleansing Flame
*Xin the Weaponmaster*
One Hand:
Firescribe Dagger
Shoulders:
Regal Silk Shoulderpads
Feet:
Soulbinder Treads
# Shado-Pan Monastery ( SPM )
*Master Snowdrift*
Ring:
Eye of the Tornado
*Sha of Violence*
Hands:
Gloves of Enraged Slaughter
*Taran Zhu*
Ring:
Ring of Malice
Chest:
Robe of Fevered Dreams
# Temple of the Jade Serpent ( TJS )
*Lorewalker Stonestep*
Belt:
Girdle of Endemic Anger
*Liu Flameheart*
Back:
Cape of Entanglement
Feet:
Flameheart Sandals
*Sha of Doubt*
Neck:
Mindbreaker Pendant
Hands:
Paralyzing Gloves
Staff:
Staff of Trembling Will
# Stormstout Brewery ( SB )
*Ook-Ook*
Wrist:
Bracers of Displaced Air
*Hoptallus*
Off-Hand:
Bottle of Potent Potables
*Yan-Zhu the Uncasked*
Ring:
ALemental Seal
Staff:
Wort Stirring Rod
# Scholomance
*Instructor Chillheart*
Neck:
Anarchist's Pendant
*Jandice Barov*
Head:
Barovian Ritual Hood
*Lilian Voss*
Legs:
Leggings of Unleashed Anguish
# Scarlet Monastery
*Thalnos the Soulrender*
Shoulders:
Forgotten Bloodmage Mantle
Ring:
Signet of the Hidden Door
*Brother Korloff*
Back:
Scorched Earth Cloak
*High Inquisitor Whitemane*
Ring:
Triune Signet
Staff:
Greatstaff of Righteousness
# Scarlet Halls
*Armaster Harlan*
Feet:
Scarlet Sandals
*Flameweaver Koegler*
Ring:
Vithrak, Gaze of the Deadman
Neck:
Temperature-Sensing Necklace
Chest:
Robes of Koegler
One-Hand:
Melted Hypnotic Blade
BiS items:
Best in Slot items @ End-Patch
Trinket1:
Purified Bindings of Immerseus
Trinket2:
Black Blood of Y'Shaarj
Chest:
Robes of the Horned Nightmare
Head:
Hood of the Horned Nightmare
Legs:
Leggings of the Horned Nightmare
Hands:
Gloves of the Horned Nightmare
Shoulders:
Rime-Rift Shoulders
Weapon1:
Hellscream's War Staff
Weapon2:
Gaze of Arrogance
Neck:
Untainted Guardian's Chain
Wrist:
Avool's Ancestral Bracers
Waist:
Belt of Ominous Trembles
Ring1:
Extinguished Ember of Galakras
Ring2:
Iyyokuk's Hereditary Seal
Best in Slot items @ 5.1
Head:
Sha-Skin Hood
Neck:
Worldwaker Cabochon
Shoulders:
Sha-Skin Mantle
Chest:
Robes of the Unknown Fear
Belt:
Belt of Malleable Amber
Legs:
Sha-Skin Leggings
Boots:
Sandals of the Blackest Night
Wrist:
Attenuating Bracers
Hands:
Sha-Skin Gloves
Ring:
Watersoul Signet
Ring2:
Fragment of Fear Made Flesh
Trinket:
Essence of Terror
Trinket2:
Light of the Cosmos
Back:
Cloak of Overwhelming Corruption
Weapon:
Regail's Crackling Dagger
Offhand:
Tornado-Summoning Censer
Best in Slot items @ 5.2
Weapon -
Athame of the Sanguine Ritual
Off-Hand -
Lei Shen's Orb of Command
Head -
Hood of the Crimson Wake
Neck -
Necklace of the Terra-Cotta Invoker
Shoulders -
Mantle of the Thousandfold Hells
Back -
Deadly Glare Cape
Chest -
Robes of the Thousandfold Hells
Wrist -
Bracers of Fragile Bone
Hands -
Gloves of the Thousandfold Hells
Waist -
Cord of Cacophonous Cawing
Legs -
Leggings of the Thousandfold Hells
Feet -
Home-Warding Slippers
Ring -
Ro'shak's Remembrance
Ring -
Jin'rokh's Dreamshard
Trinket -
Wushoolay's Final Choice
Trinket -
Unerring Vision of Lei Shen
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