Demonology Warlock PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / Patch 10.0.7)

Last updated on Mar 21, 2023 at 19:43 by Mysticall 18 comments

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.

1.

Talent Choices for Demonology Warlocks

Below is the ideal talent build you will be running in Arena.

2.

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.

2.1.

Warlock Talent Tree Highlights

Some important spells to note in the Warlock talent tree:

  • Mortal Coil Icon 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 Icon Demon Skin/Fel Armor Icon Fel Armor are both really strong talents that help increase your survivability.
  • Soulburn Icon Soulburn allows you to empower many of your spells. Some to note is that it will increase the healing of Healthstone Icon Healthstone and your max health. Also, after you use Demonic Circle: Teleport Icon Demonic Circle: Teleport, your movement speed will be increased and you are immune to roots/snares for 8 sec.
2.2.

Demonology Warlock Talent Tree Highlights

Some important spells to note in the Demonology Warlock Talent tree:

  • Power Siphon Icon Power Siphon gives you more on-demand damage by sacrificing two of your imps. This results in two charges of Demonic Core Icon Demonic Core, giving you instant Demonbolt Icon Demonbolts.
  • From the Shadows Icon From the Shadows causes Dreadbite Icon Dreadbite deal additional damage to your target. This increases the damage dealt by some of your important spells, such as Hand of Gul'dan Icon Hand of Gul'dan and Summon Demonic Tyrant Icon Summon Demonic Tyrant. This also works well with the Dreadlash Icon Dreadlash talent.
  • Guillotine Icon Guillotine is one of the final talents you can take and this causes your Felguard to deal AoE damage near your target. This is a great talent for increasing damage, but be careful because this will break crowd control.
3.

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.

3.1.

Mandatory PvP Talents

Call Felhunter Icon Call Felhunter gives you an interrupt that locks an enemy in that school for 6 seconds. This PvP talent is crucial to stop incoming crowd control or, more importantly, to interrupt a healer that is casting a powerful spell.

Master Summoner Icon Master Summoner makes your Call Dreadstalkers Icon Call Dreadstalkers instant. This is crucial to increase your sustained damage and gives your more time to cast more important spells.

3.2.

Situational PvP Talents

Fel Obelisk Icon 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.

Call Fel Lord Icon 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 Icon Nether Ward for this PvP talent.

Nether Ward Icon Nether Ward surrounds the caster with a shield that last 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.

4.

Changelog

  • 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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