Demonology Warlock PvP Talents and Builds (The War Within Pre-Patch)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Demonology Warlock and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Demonology Warlock PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Demonology Warlocks
This section will be updated shortly after launch as it is difficult to predict at Level 70 without Hero Talents.
Below is the ideal talent build you will be running in Arena.
Talents Summary
While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Warlock Talent Tree Highlights
Some important spells to note in the Warlock talent tree:
Mortal Coil gives you extra control over the enemy team with instant crowd control. This ability will also heal you, which is great for increasing your survivability.
Demon Skin/
Fel Armor are both really strong talents that help increase your survivability.
Soulburn allows you to empower many of your spells. Some to note is that it will increase the healing of
Healthstone and your max health. Also, after you use
Demonic Circle: Teleport, your movement speed will be increased, and you will be immune to roots/snares for 8 sec.
Demonology Warlock Talent Tree Highlights
Some important spells to note in the Demonology Warlock Talent tree:
Power Siphon gives you more on-demand damage by sacrificing two of your imps. This results in two charges of
Demonic Core, giving you instant
Demonbolts.
Grand Warlock's Design reduces your
Summon Demonic Tyrant cooldown by 30 seconds, allowing you to extend your demons more often and having a burst window more often.
PvP Talents for Demonology Warlocks
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Master Summoner reduces the cast time of your
Call Dreadstalkers,
Summon Vilefiend, and
Summon Demonic Tyrant and reduces the cooldown of Call Dreadstalkers.
This is crucial to increase your sustained damage and gives your more time
to cast more important spells.
Fel Obelisk empowers you and your minions, increasing attack
speed and reducing the cast time of spells. This is great for when you are
playing a team composition where the enemy team will struggle to kill the
Obelisk.
Situational PvP Talents
Impish Instincts is a crucial talent if you are playing against one or
more melee DPS. This talent reduces the cooldown of
Demonic Circle: Teleport
by 3 seconds when you take direct physical damage. This will make it much easier
to kite away from incoming damage when you are the primary target for the enemy
team.
Call Fel Lord summons a Fel Lord at a location that will stun anyone
that enters its ring. This ability is crucial
against melee who try to ignore it. This also increases your survivability if
you stand by your Fel Lord. You should replace
Nether Ward for this PvP
talent.
Nether Ward surrounds the caster with a shield that lasts 3 sec,
reflecting all harmful spells cast on you. This is a crucial talent to take
against all casters. You also want to use this talent versus teams with a
Shaman, Death Knight, or Demon Hunter. This is because their kicks are magical
, and this will prevent you from being interrupted while it is active.
Call Observer summons an Observer guardian, which deals up to 10% of the enemy's
health when they cast a harmful magic spell. This talent is great for teams with a caster to
use during their offensive cooldowns.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Prepatch 11.0.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- Updated Recommended talents.
- Updated PvP talents.
- 07 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- Updated PvP Talents section.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Talent Tree.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 01 Aug. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 19 Jul. 2022: Updated Talent Table.
- 10 Jun. 2022: Updated Tiers 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 regular talents.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tier 1 Regular Talent.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 26 Nov. 2021: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tier 7 Regular Talent.
- 09 Aug. 2021: Updated Talent table.
- Updated Tiers 1 and 5 regular talents.
- Updated PvP talents.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 29 Nov. 2020: Removed outdated Traits and Essences.
- 27 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 1, 4, 5, 7 Regular Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 14 Feb. 2020: Updated Tier 7 Regular talent.
- 20 Jan. 2020: This page was checked for Patch 8.3 and no update was deemed necessary.
- 13 Jan. 2020: Page added.
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This guide is written and maintained by Chanimal, BlizzCon Champion Warlock with Rank 1 titles since 2011, competing in AWC. He streams Warlock PvP daily on Twitch, with highlights on YouTube.
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