Mists of Pandaria Classic Demonology Warlock Rotation and Cooldowns

This page contains all relevant information needed for Demonology Warlock before the release of Mists of Pandaria Classic. We will be updating this with all the latest information as soon as more is discovered, so make sure to check back.

Demonology Warlocks received a major rework coming into the expansion. Now focused around generating as much Demonic Fury as possible from spells like Shadow Bolt and Corruption, then use that Demonic Fury to weave in and out of Metamorphosis While in Metamorphosis you deal much more damage and some of your spells change. Utilize spells like Touch of Chaos, only usable while in Metamorphosis and also replaces Shadow Bolt and extends the duration of Corruption.

As a Demonology Warlock, Corruption and Doom are important Damage over Time spells and paying attention to their timers is cruicial to your success. MoP Classic changed the way DoTs work thanks to the Talent Pandemic. When you refresh your DoTs, the duration remaining on the previous effect is added to this new one, up to a maximum of 50%. This means that if a DoT duration of 20 seconds and you refresh it when there are 10 seconds remaining, the new duration will be 30 seconds.

Your DoTs benefit from your stats at the time you casted the DoT. This means that Corruption will take into account your stats at the exact time you cast Corruption, and it will keep that Haste, or Spell Power buff even after you lose the buffs yourself.

The single target rotation for Demonology is more of a priority system and it's pretty straightforward. Your goal is to stay in Metamorphosis as long as you can. This means you need to generate as much Demonic Fury as possible by casting Shadow Bolt, Corruption and Hand of Gul'dan, then shifting into Metamorphosis to unleash a barrage of brand new spells like Touch of Chaos, Carrion Swarm, Chaos Wave and much more.

Corruption should be on the target as close to 100% uptime as possible thanks to the new and improved Pandemic. Pair that with the new Metamorphosis only ability Touch of Chaos, which extends the duration of your Corruption, you should have zero issues maintaining this DoT'.

1. (Prepull) Make sure your Felguard is out.
2. (Prepull) Pre-Pop a Potion of the Jade Serpent.
3. (Prepull) Precast Soul Fire if you can, so that it lands on the boss right when the pull timer hits zero seconds. Also make sure you Demon attacking.
4. (Prepull) Immediately cast Immolate.
5. Cast Hand of Gul'dan
6. Cast Curse of the Elements and keep this up full time if no other member is putting up the debuff. Rogues will naturally apply this debuff. Hunters also apply this debuff, but only using.
7. Pop your cooldowns like Dark Soul: Knowledge, Wild Imps, Grimoire of Service, Blood Fury, Trinkets and whatever else you have.
8. Cast Summon Doomguard/ Summon Terrorguard right before your Raid either Bloodlusts, Heroisms or Time Warps, since it will also be Lusted. Summon Doomguard dynamically updates to your stats, so no need to worry about snapshotting spell power. It deals more damage if the target is below 20%, but it does more damage lusted.
9. Cast two Corruptions. Apply this once. It should never fall off unless a boss mechanic forces you to.
10. Cast Hand of Gul'dan right before the first Shadowflame stack is about to end, this gives you the double stack.
11. Cast two Metamorphosis as soon as you proc your buffs.
12. Recast Doom. You want to apply this after Metamorphosis in order to snapshot the Doom.
13. Cast Fel Flame whenever you have to move.

Your goal is to keep Corruption, Doom and Shadowflame on the target as often as you can. Save your Molten Core stacks and try to use them during either your cooldown or buff windows.

1. Keep Corruption up at all times.
2. Keep Doom up at all times.
3. Cast Hand of Gul'dan to weave in the Shadowflame DoT.
4. Cast Soul Fire when the target is below 30% Health.
5. Shadow Bolt as a filler.

Aim to enter Metamorphosis once over 900 Demonic Fury, unless you need to reapply Doom.

1. Keep Doom up at all times. Make sure to cast it while in Metamorphosis!
2. Cast Touch of Chaos to refresh Corruption.
3. Cast Soul Fire when the target is below 30% Health.
4. Leave Metamorphosis when you get under 600 Demonic Fury.

1. Cast Corruption any target that will live for at least 20 seconds.
2. Cast Doom on any target that will live long enough for it to tick twice.
3. Cast Hand of Gul'dan in order to keep Shadowflame on all targets. Try to cast this in time for you to apply the second stack before the first one falls off.
5. Cast Immolation Aura. This pairs extraordinarily well with Mannoroth's Fury.
6. Cast Carrion Swarm. The knockback can be annoying to some, so it's suggested to pick up a Glyph of Carrion Swarm if so.
7. Cast Metamorphosis: Void Ray as your filler, while waiting to cast the above mentioned Spells.