Demonology Warlock DPS Guide — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Listed below is a breakdown of the changes separated in sections to facilitate the read.

• Hero Talents received minor baseline changes and an addition of a fourth column, inspired from TWW Season 3 set bonuses.
  
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  2.1.1.

  Diabolist

  • Touch of Rancora has been toned down to a minor damage buff;
  • New Talent: Diabolic Oculi everytime you spend shards summon up to 3 Oculi which will explode for AoE damage whenever a Demonic Art is consumed;
  • New Talent: Looks That Kill while active Diabolic Oculi will cast Diabolic Gaze at your target every second;
  • New Talent: Mind's Eye Each Diabolic Oculi exploded will grant 2% intellect for 10 seconds.

  
  

  2.1.2.

  Soul Harvester

  • New Talent: Manifested Avarice each Succulent Soul consumed has a chance to trigger Soul Swipe for additional damage on all targets within 10 yards;
  • New Talent: Shared Vessel increase Mastery by a percentage which is doubled when Demonic Soul triggers;
  • New Talent: Eternal Hunger increases duration and damage of Manifested Avarice.
• Substantial changes happened to core/rotational Demonology Warlock spells.
  
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  • Hand of Gul'dan can now be casted only at 3 shards;
  • Soul Strike, Demonic Strength and Bilescourge Bombers have been removed;
  • Implosion is now a choice node cooldown with Power Siphon;
  • Summon Demonic Tyrant has been changed, to dynamically scale its damage based on the numbers of Wild Imps and Dreadstalkers active;
  • Summon Demonic Tyrant does not extend other demons duration, nor provide a damage increase aura baseline;
  • Summon Vilefiend and its upgrades are not a separate spell anymore but are now attached to Summon Dreadstalkers;
  • Grimoire: Felguard has been removed;
  • A new Choice node has been added featuring Grimoire: Imp Lord and Grimoire: Fel Ravager which offer extra utility in the form of Singe Magic or Spell Lock respectively;
  • Demonic Calling has been changed from being a chance to now apply cast time and shard cost reductions to every Summon Dreadstalkers cast;
  • Summon Doomguard functionality has changed from being a chance to proc with Pact of the Ered'ruin to a cooldown that is dynamically reduced when spending Demonic Cores.
• Few noteworthy changes also happened to Warlockutility spells.
  
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  • Curse of Tongues and Curse of Exhaustion are now separate talents;
  • Foul Mouth has been added, allowing every curse to also affect enemies around 10 yards of the main target;
  • Blights were introduced, offering a more powerful version of Curses, with a shorter duration and cooldown associated;
  • Howl of Terror is now a choice node with Shadowfury and has a new supporting talent in Oppressive Darkness, reducing its cooldown and affe ting up to 10 targets
  • Health Funnel has been removed and its healing has been added to Drain Life with Infernal Beneficiary