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Demonology Warlock rotation guide & helper

Play Demonology Warlock like a skilled player: the current priority, cooldowns that line up, AoE when it pays and kicks on the casts that matter.

Updated for WoW Forever · Windows
Guide

How Demonology plays.

Your demon does a big part of your damage, so it goes in first. With the talent, Demonic Brand is the core: Searing Pain goes on your demon's target to keep the Brand up. Then your DoTs go on and you fill with the wand, Drain Life (solo from level 30) or Shadow Bolt, with Life Tap for mana. Lines for spells you don't have yet are skipped, and the helper uses the right rank.

One target

  1. Drain Life when you drop below 40% health.
  2. Shadow Bolt when Shadow Trance lights up (free and instant).
  3. Searing Pain when Demonic Brand is missing and your demon is alive (a main setting).
  4. Curse of the Elements on mobs living 25 seconds or more, from level 40 or in a group.
  5. Bane of Doom on mobs living 60 seconds or more. Shorter fights get Amplify Curse and Bane of Agony instead (one Bane per mob).
  6. Corruption, Siphon Life on mobs living 12 seconds or more, and Immolate from level 31.
  7. Drain Soul on a mob below 25% health while you have fewer than 3 shards (rank 1 with Soul Harvest).
  8. Fillers: Drain Life while solo from level 30, Shadow Bolt in groups, else the wand.

Fire build

  • One switch (off by default) turns on the Fire build with your Imp out.
  • Soul Fire when Decimation lights up, on mobs that live more than 4 seconds.
  • Searing Pain becomes the filler.

Packs and mana

  • From 3 targets, Demonic Brand only goes on a mob that lives 15 seconds or more. The 3 is yours to change.
  • Hellfire in a group with 3 or more enemies next to you, while you're above 90% health.
  • DoTs also go on the mob under your mouse when it fights you, at 30% mana or more ("DoTs on other mobs").
  • Life Tap below 40% mana while you're above 60% health, with health to spare, and out of combat (a main setting).

Good to know

  • Every mob above 90% health gets Corruption and Immolate. Without Demonic Brand it gets Bane of Agony too; with it, Bane of Agony skips mobs that won't live 10 seconds.
  • The helper keeps Demon Skin / Demon Armor up and summons your demon out of combat (Succubus by default, your pick).
  • Fear, Howl of Terror, Death Coil, Healthstone and Soulstone stay yours.
What it does for you

Built for Demonology.

01

Cooldowns that line up

Your Demonology cooldowns go when the priority says so, not when a timer runs out.

02

AoE when it pays

Area spells only once enough enemies are around you. You pick the number.

03

Kicks and stuns

Interrupts on the casts that matter, and no wasted casts on mobs that are immune.

04

DoTs on every mob

Rest your mouse on another enemy and your missing DoT goes there. Your target never changes.

05

The right spell rank

Highest, smart or a fixed rank for every spell, so you never waste mana.

06

Immunity learning

It learns which mobs shrug off your spells and stops casting them there.

In the rotation

Demonology spells it uses.

Lines for spells you don't have are skipped, so it follows your talents.

Drain LifeShadow BoltSearing PainCurse of the ElementsBane of DoomAmplify CurseBane of AgonyCorruptionSiphon LifeImmolateConflagrateShadowburnDrain SoulLife TapHellfireSoul Fire
Tuning

Tune Demonology your way.

A few of the settings you can change in game, shown with their default.

  • Demon to summon: Succubus by default
  • Drain Life below 40% health
  • Life Tap below 40% mana
  • Life Tap out of combat too (not while eating / drinking) - on by default
  • Always open with your DoTs on a fresh mob (above 90% health)
  • Drain Soul while you have fewer than 3 shards
  • Wand when your mana is below 50% (Shadow Bolt above it)
  • Wand only when the mob is below 0% health (0 = off)
  • DoTs on the mob under your mouse (spread): only at 30% mana or more
  • Drain Life as filler (solo) from level 30
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