Destruction Warlock PvP Guide — 12.1

Destruction Warlock received single-target damage buffs going into Season 2, with a reduction to its cleave profile through Havoc. All three Warlock specializations had their snares nerfed in PvP combat.

• Conflagration of Chaos has been redesigned. Conflagrate and Shadowburn have a 100% chance to critically strike, and their damage is increased by your critical strike chance.
• Hellcaller: Blackened Soul has been redesigned. If the target is afflicted with your Wither, your Chaos Bolt and Shadowburn increase its stack count by 1. Each time Wither gains a stack it has a chance to collapse, consuming a stack every 1 second to deal Shadowflame damage to its host until 1 stack remains.
• Hellcaller: Mark of Peroth'arn has been redesigned. Damaging critical strikes dealt by Wither deal 215% damage instead of the usual 200%, and damaging critical strikes dealt by Blackened Soul deal 225% damage instead of the usual 200%.
• All damage increased by 4.5%.
• Soul Fire damage increased by 45%.
• Chaos Bolt damage increased by 5%.
• Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage increased by 45%.
• Hellcaller: Wither damage increased by 25%.
• Havoc now causes spells to deal 50% of their damage to the marked target (was 60%).
• Drain Life health drain increased by 25%.
• Zevrim's Resilience healing increased by 25%.
• Curse of Exhaustion movement slow reduced to 30% in PvP combat (was 50%).
• Whiplash movement slow reduced to 30% in PvP combat (was 50%).
• Fel Fissure movement slow reduced to 30% in PvP combat (was 50%).
• Bonds of Fel damage increased by 100%, and its radius increased to 12 yards (was 8 yards). Its visual has been updated to better show the boundary to enemies.
• Dampening now causes Dark Pact to decrease the amount of health it sacrifices.

Midnight brings a complete rework to the talent trees, with several talents such as Practiced Chaos and Xorothian Research that increase your stats. Additionally, you can now spread Immolate with Roaring Blaze.

These changes are moderate in impact for Destruction Warlocks in PvP, making the gameplay more fluid.

• Shadowburn deals very low damage and is not prioritized in PvP builds anymore.
• Conflagrate now spreads your Immolate or Wither to nearby targets thanks to Roaring Blaze.
• Ritual of Ruin has been removed.
• Decimation has been removed. As such, players are highly recommended to avoid Soul Fire builds.

Important Note

Midnight also introduces Apex talents, with Destruction Warlock's Embers of Nihilam increasing Crit / Haste, as well as proccing some extra damage.