Cataclysm Classic Demonology Warlock Talent Builds

Demonology Warlock has 31 of their talent points in the Demonology tree and then the rest into the Destruction to buff your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, Soul Fire and Incinerate. Below you'll find our recommended talent build for all PvE content as a Demonology Warlock.

In this section we'll go over the best build for Demonology Warlock. There is no optional talents, as we choose all the talents that will help you do the most damage as possible as Demonology.

• Dark Arts — This talent will drastically increase the amount of damage your Felhunter does with Shadow Bite, as well as your Felguards Legion Strike.

• Demonic Embrace — This gives you 10% more stamina, making you tankier, which is important as you play in melee and might take some extra damage.

• Demonic Rebirth — This makes it so whenever your demon dies, you have 10 seconds to be able to summon another demon out instantly with no cast time. You can only do this once every 2 minutes.

• Mana Feed — This talent gives your demon mana whenever you Life Tap, making it so your demon will never run out of mana.

• Demonic Aegis — Increases the amount of health generated through spells and effects that you have from your Demon Armor and also increases the amount of health returned by your Fel Armor by 100%.

• Master Summoner — Reduces the cast time of your demons by 1 second. This can be helpful to quickly summon a new demon if you're Demonic Rebirth is on cooldown, and also you will be hard casting a demon when Demon Soul gets off cooldown.

• Molten Core — This is a pivotal talent for Demonology that gives your Immolate a 6% chance to give you the Molten Core effect, making your next three Incinerates deal 18% more damage and also reducing it's cast time by 30% for those three Incinerates.

• Hand of Gul'dan — This is another massive talent for Demonology. This summons a huge fiery meteor that crashes to the ground dealing damage, but also putting down a purple circle that when enemies are in it, ALL Warlock demons gain 10% increased critical strike chance. This will be very important to keep track of.

• Ancient Grimoire — This talent increases the duration of your Summon Infernal and Summon Doomguard by 20 seconds. This matters much more for you Doomguard as it's one of the highest damaging spells in the game and thanks to this talent it will be out for 20 seconds longer.

• Inferno — This allows you to move while Hellfire is being channeled, as well as increases the duration of Immolate by 6 seconds.

• Decimation — This makes it so whenever you Shadow Bolt, Incinerate or Soul Fire any target that is at or below 25% health, the cast time of Soul Fire is reduced by 40% for 10 seconds. This is your execute talent and vital to your rotation as a Demonology Warlock.

• Demonic Pact — This increases yours and all party and raid members spell power by 10%. One of the biggest buffs in the game. Also shared with an Elemental Shamans Totemic Wrath.

• Cremation — This increases the damage done by your Hellfire by 30%, and also makes your Hand of Gul'dan refresh the duration of Immolate.

• Metamorphosis — The main talent in the Demonology tree. This transforms you into a Demon, making you do 20% more damage, increases your armor by 600% and reduces the chance you will be critically hit by 6%. On top of all that, you can special demon abilities that you will be using all the time when in Demon form with Immolation Aura and Demon Leap.

• Bane — This talent will reduce the cast time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate by a half a second. Shadow Bolt is your main filler and will be used more than any other spell, so a quicker cast time is important.

• Shadow and Flame — This is a very important talent that not only increases the damage of your Incinerate and Shadow Bolt by 12%, but also whenever they hit the target it will put a debuff on it that will increase the spell critical strike chance done to the target by 5%.

• Improved Immolate — This buffs your main DoT Immolate by 20%.

• Emberstorm — This talent reduces teh cast time of your Soul Fire and Incinerate by 1 second.

Prime glyphs are new to Cataclysm and they're the strongest glyph options that you can have. Prime glyphs are pretty limited and won't provide many flex options.

• Glyph of Corruption — This gives every tick of Corruption a 4% chance to make your next Shadow Bolt instant cast.
• Glyph of Immolate — This increases the DoT portion of your Immolate by an additional 10%, making your hardest hitting DoT do even more damage.
• Glyph of Metamorphosis — This increases the duration of your Metamorphosis by an additional 6 seconds, allowing you to stay in your Demon Meta form longer and to get an additional use of Immolation Aura

• Glyph of Life Tap — This will reduce the global cooldown of your Life Tap by half a second and imporant since you will be Life Taping frequently.
• Glyph of Soul Link — This increases how much damage is shared from you to your demon from Soul Link by 5%, making you take less damage.
• Glyph of Shadow Bolt — This reduces the mana cost of your main filler spell Shadow Bolt by 15%, saving you a lot of mana throughout an encounter.

• Glyph of Drain Soul — Whenever you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor you gain 10% of your mana back.
• Glyph of Unending Breath — This increases the swim speed of targets affected by your Unending Breath by 20%. Helpful for any quests in the water.
• Glyph of Curse of Exhaustion — This increases the range of your Curse of Exhaustion by 5 yards. Can be helpful if you ever want to slow down your enemy or in PvP situations.