Demonology Warlock DPS Easy Mode — The War Within (11.1.7)

These choices are optimized for ease of use while offering a setup that works in any situation with no adjustments required. As a reminder, this is not the optimal choice in either single target or multitarget in terms of output, but one that can help players become familiar with the specialization at its core.

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1. Cast Demonic Strength on cooldown.
2. Cast Call Dreadstalkers whenever available.
3. Cast Hand of Gul'dan if you have 4-5 Soul Shards.
4. Cast Demonbolt if you have 2+ stacks of Demonic Core.
5. Cast Hand of Gul'dan with 3 Soul Shards.
6. Cast Shadow Bolt to generate Soul Shards.

Summon Demonic Tyrant should be cast on cooldown, making sure to extend Call Dreadstalkers and as many Wild Imps as possible (aim for at least 2 sets or 6 in total).

Save Demonic Strength for when more targets can be hit, but do not delay it by more than a few seconds. Otherwise, the rotation is identical to a single target, as the vast majority of your damage also cleaves around the main target.

Use Implosion every 2 Hand of Gul'dan when there are at least 2 targets close.

For a more comprehensive explanation of the priority list, including openers, check out the rotation page.

Introduced in Patch 11.1.7 the Combat Assistant is at the time of writing comprised of two main features:

• Assisted Highlight, which displays the next spell to be queued, in a adequately accurate rotation single target and limited capabilities in multitarget, best used to familiarise with the flow/cadence of the spec;
• Single Button Assistant enabling to use a single input to use multiple skills in the sequence prompted by the Assisted Highlight, at the expense of a longer base global cooldown (which accounts for an additional 5% to 10% dps loss).

It is worth pointing out that these tools are Accessibility features first and foremost and should not be considered a direct replacement to learn a spec, and the logic behind it.

The areas where the Combat Assistant struggle the most for Demonology Warlock are:

• Multitarget in general, due how it considers all targets stacked regardless of the situation;
• Cooldown usage, since it is either missing, or there is no preparation entering a given cooldown, Tyrant is entirely missing and setting it up correctly is a major part of Demonology overall dps;
• Implosion is not supported

• cooldown alignment has to be done manually, especially considering racials, potions and on-use equipment;
• Doom spread has to be done manually as well in multitarget situations;
• In general try to maximise the amount of time spent casting, especially when using the Single Button Assistant, as downtime is one of the improvement areas at any stage of the game.