Destruction Warlock Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7

Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Destruction Warlock! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Destruction Warlock in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.

This page is focused only on Destruction Warlock in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.

Below, you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Destruction Warlock in MoP Remix. There are various ways of leveling in MoP Remix, and we offer some builds for the most relevant ways.

Note that this Leveling section is specific to MoP Remix. For our Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Destruction Warlock, please check our dedicated Leveling page.

Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.

• Meta Gem: Lifestorm for Raids / Oblivion Sphere for dungeons or outdoor content
• Cogwheel Gem: Mostly personal preference, but Blink is always good, whereas Soulshape is very good for outdoor travel
• Prismatic Gems:

  You will have a tremendous amount of stats as you start unlocking all Gem slots, and there is no single best stat to stack.

• Tinker Gems:
  • Windweaver
  • Brilliance
  • Sunstrider's Flourish
  • Enkindle
  • Hailstorm
  • Incendiary Terror
  • Lightning Rod
  • Meteor Storm
  • Slay
  • Explosive Barrage
  • Brittle — Mainly for dungeons.
  • Wildfire

To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!

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Dungeon / AoE Open-World Build:

1. Level 2 — the first DoT, Corruption, becomes available, which should be used to tag and soften up multiple enemies whenever spamming a few Shadow Bolts will not kill them quicker.
2. Level 29 — Use Shadowburn on targets below 20% health in order to trigger the 50% additional Critical Strike chance and hopefully the shard refund.
3. Level 27 — Use Cataclysm as often as possible.
4. Level 23 — Cast Channel Demonfire when at least one target suffers from your Immolate.
5. Level 19 — Use Havoc when there is a second target to duplicate every single-target spell.
6. Level 11 — Cast Chaos Bolt whenever you have at least 2 Shards.
7. Level 15 — Cast Rain of Fire when you have 3 shards, and there are at least 3 targets stacked.
8. Level 11 — maintain Immolate on as many targets as possible for high damage and shard generation.
9. Level 13 — Cast Conflagrate when moving and when you do not have more than 4 and a half shards.
10. Level 10 — Incinerate replaces Shadow Bolt with the ability to generate Soul Shard bits.

Raid / Cleave Build:

1. Level 2 — the first DoT, Corruption, becomes available, which should be used to tag and soften up multiple enemies whenever spamming a few Shadow Bolts will not kill them quicker.
2. Level 51 — Cast Infernal on cooldown.
3. Level 21 — Try to maintain Roaring Blaze debuff by spacing out Conflagrate casts.
4. Level 19 — Use Havoc when there is a second target to duplicate every single-target spell.
5. Level 11 — Cast Chaos Bolt whenever you have at least 2 Shards.
6. Level 15 — Cast Rain of Fire when you have 3 shards, and there are at least 3 targets stacked.
7. Level 11 — maintain Immolate on as many targets as possible for high damage and shard generation.
8. Level 13 — Cast Conflagrate when moving and when you do not have more than 4 and a half shards.
9. Level 10 — Incinerate replaces Shadow Bolt with the ability to generate Soul Shard bits.