Demonology Warlock DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Season 4

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Demonology Warlock; this section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

Due to the simplicity of determining upgrades with a simulation in the current game era, we recommend using the popular Raidbots tool to decide which pieces of gear offer the most potential for your character. The main reason why this is a considerable advantage is due to the vast number of variables that differ from character to character, such as Stat Quotients and Scale Factors.

The Top Gear function can be handy, as it allows you to compare multiple items and item types to find the best combination of upgrades.

Learning to use the tools available will allow you to reach the most accurate conclusions with the least effort. It is highly recommended that you avail yourself of these tools, which will serve you well when evaluating items.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses you should spend your Bonus Rolls on. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon, and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from bonus rolling on it. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

With Season 4 Fated raids providing 3 different raids worth of high item level loot, alongside crafted gear and Mythic+ sources it can be difficult to prioritise where to allocate the limited amount of Awakened Crests, and is instead a path that originates from what gear has been acquired each week.

Listed Below are some guidelines defining the importance of each individual upgrades:

1. Embellishment offers the most reliable upgrades, coming from crafted items and offering good scaling for those effects;
2. High stat tier pieces (Helm, Chest, Legs);
3. Weapons and trinket, which for the most part are tied to Amirdrassil weeks.

For more information on the new Gear Upgrades system, check out our dedicated page for it below.

As with Valor, the cost to upgrade scales differs per slot but now also increases quickly as item levels go up.

Season 4 offers a way to target specific, powerful items with the new Antique Bronze Bullion. Here are the best items to spend your Bullions on in Dragonflight Season 4.

1. Belor'relos, the Suncaller is arguably the best caster trinket, capable of output in both single and multitarget, while also synergising with another item listed below;
2. Nymue's Unraveling Spindle the second best trinket, especially relevant in single target, and also another item sought after by many;
3. Seal of Filial Duty a rare drop and the best single target ring provided the spec has some source of Fire damage, which can be obtained through trinket and embellishment;
4. Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle the only weapon to sport both secondaries and an active ability on top;
5. Voice of the Silent Star offensive oriented item, which sacrifices stamina in favour of more secondary stats through a proc

The newly revamped crafting system gives players access to an alternate avenue of gearing, one which offers unique embellishment, which is limited to two equipped at any time.

Spark of Awakening will remain the main limiting factor when crafting high-end gear, as it can be acquired once every two weeks by combining two Splintered Spark of Awakening and 250 Flightstones.

At the start of a tier, it will be possible to craft two pieces (the first from the initial quest and the second from the initial bi-weekly reward).

It is essential to understand that your individual crafting strategy depends heavily on the kind of progress and therefore drops available, the speed at which you progress through the content and whatever drop you can obtain early. As a result, there will not be a single best path, instead listed below will be some guidelines:

The best option overall, regardless of target count is double Blue Silken Lining assuming at least 50% uptime. For situations where that is not the case (few raid encounters with constant damage spikes) Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch offers the second highest single target damage increase.

In Dragonflight season 4 Demonology Warlock sees the return of Season 3 tier set with the following bonuses:

• Warlock Demonology 10.2 Class Set 2pc: Demonbolt now applies a Doom Brand that explodes after 20 seconds, dealing Shadow damage to nearby enemies. Hand of Gul'dan reduce the duration of the primary target’s Doom Brand by 1 second per shard spent.
• Warlock Demonology 10.2 Class Set 4pc: Hand of Gul'dan damage increased by 15%. When Doom Brand explodes, you have a chance to summon a Doomfiend that blasts your target for Shadow damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.

Both bonuses offer a damage increase without affecting the rotation in a meaningful way in single target, but inviting the player to spread Doom Brands in multitarget.

It is important to note that achieving the Warlock Demonology 10.2 Class Set 4pc is a higher gain than having the set on the sub-optimal slots.

That said, the ideal setup has the Legs as the offset piece due a suboptimal stat distribution.

Two weapons stand out, and both are staves: Infinite Dragonspire and Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle, dropping respectively from Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr and Nymue in Amirdrassil.

Due to the prevalence of high item level trinkets via Mythic+, raiding, and PvP, there are various suitable options for trinkets. It is always best to use Raidbots Top Gear to determine what your optimal trinkets are.

From Raids Nymue's Unraveling Spindle and Belor'relos, the Suncaller are the overall best trinkets.

From dungeons any combination of Tome of Unstable Power, Furious Ragefeather, Idol of Pure Decay, Spoils of Neltharus and Umbrelskul's Fractured Heart will work.

DISCLAIMER: sims are currently being developed; therefore, take the following charts with a grain of salt.