Demonology Warlock DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.0.7)

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Demonology Warlock; this section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

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BiS Gear for Demonology Warlock

Overall BiS list Raid BiS List Mythic+ BiS List

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The War Within Season 1 Overall BiS List for Demonology Warlock

The following list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Demonology Warlock in The War Within Season 1 from all sources, including Raiding, Mythic+, Delves, The Great Vault, and Crafted.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Devotee's Discarded Headdress (639)	Rasha'nan
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Hexflame Coven's Altar (639)	Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (639)	Rasha'nan
Chest	Hexflame Coven's Ritual Harness (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Consecrated Cuffs (636) with Writhing Armor Banding and Critical Strike + Versatility	Crafted — Tailoring
Gloves	Hexflame Coven's Sleeves (639)	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Burrower's Cinch (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes, or Great Vault
Legs	Hexflame Coven's Leggings (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Assimilated Eggshell Slippers (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Key to the Unseeming (639)	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes, or Great Vault
Trinket #2	Spymaster's Web (639)	Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Weapon	Sovereign's Disdain (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Off-Hand	Vagabond's Torch (636) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Critical Strike + Versatility	Crafted — Inscription

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The War Within Season 1 Raid BiS List for Demonology Warlock

The following list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Demonology Warlock in The War Within Season 1 from Raiding, The Great Vault, and Crafted, and thus aimed at those who do not want to engage with Mythic+.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Devotee's Discarded Headdress (639)	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Hexflame Coven's Altar (639)	Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (639)	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Hexflame Coven's Ritual Harness (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Consecrated Cuffs (636) with Writhing Armor Banding and Critical Strike + Versatility	Crafted — Tailoring
Gloves	Hexflame Coven's Sleeves (639)	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Shattered Eye Cincture (639)	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Legs	Hexflame Coven's Leggings (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Assimilated Eggshell Slippers (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Key to the Unseeming (639)	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1	Mad Queen's Mandate (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2	Spymaster's Web (639)	Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Weapon	Sovereign's Disdain (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Off-Hand	Vagabond's Torch (636) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Critical Strike + Versatility	Crafted — Inscription

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The War Within Season 1 Mythic+ BiS List for Demonology Warlock

The following list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Demonology Warlock in The War Within Season 1 from Mythic+, The Great Vault, Crafted and is aimed towards those who do not have access to Raid drops.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Abominable Visage (639)	The Necrotic Wake, or Great Vault
Neck	'Emergency Stop' Keychain (639)	The Stonevault, or Great Vault
Shoulder	Hexflame Coven's Altar (639)	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Azureborne Cloak (639)	Grim Batol, or Great Vault
Chest	Hexflame Coven's Ritual Harness (639)	Matrix Catalyst
Bracers	Consecrated Cuffs (636) with Writhing Armor Banding and Critical Strike + Versatility	Crafted — Tailoring
Gloves	Hexflame Coven's Sleeves (639)	Matrix Catalyst
Belt	Burrower's Cinch (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes, or Great Vault
Legs	Hexflame Coven's Leggings (639)	Matrix Catalyst
Boots	Membranous Slippers (639)	The Dawnbreaker, or Great Vault
Ring #1	Stitchflesh's Misplaced Signet (639)	The Necrotic Wake, or Great Vault
Ring #2	Band of the Ancient Dredger (639)	Siege of Boralus, or Great Vault
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes, or Great Vault
Trinket #2	Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj (639)	The Dawnbreaker, or Great Vault
Weapon	Amarth's Spellblade (639)	The Necrotic Wake, or Great Vault
Off-Hand	Vagabond's Torch (636) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Critical Strike + Versatility	Crafted — Inscription

Patch 11.0.7 introduces a new ring Cyrce's Circlet that can be acquired by completing several activities on Siren Isle. The ring features 3 sockets, which let players choose one of four different gems in each of the three sockets, for a total of new 12 gems.

Since socketed gems scale in power the ring should be considered only when stacked against similar or lower item level options until fully upgraded, as the aim of Patch 11.0.7 is to offer a character progression associated with the new zone. Once fully upgraded the ring is essentially a over-budgeted 639 item level, and should be considered as part of the Best in slot list, especially in lieu of being a deterministic acquisition which does not requires raid vault drops.

The following list features what are generally considered the best gems, nevertheless it is highly recommended to sim yourself to figure out the best choices and combinations for your specific gear and the specific gems and other rings you already own:

• For raid, Stormbringer's Runed Citrine Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine and Windsinger's Runed Citrine offer the best combination.
• For Mythic+/AoE, Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine offer a better pairing with Windsinger's Runed Citrine over Squall Sailor's Citrine as the latter does not offer meaningful output on bosses.

For more information on how to get the ring, as well as acquiring all of the different gems that you can possibly socket into it, check out our Cyrce's Circlet guide below!

Spark of Omens will remain the main limiting factor when crafting high-end gear, as it can be acquired once every two weeks by combining two Fractured Spark of Omens and 250 Valorstones.

At the start of a tier, it will be possible to craft two pieces (the first from the initial quest and the second from the initial bi-weekly reward).

It is essential to understand that your crafting strategy depends heavily on the kind of progress and therefore drops available, the speed at which you progress through the content and whatever drop you can obtain early. As a result, there will not be a single best path, instead listed below will be some guidelines:

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on the offhand weapon and Writhing Armor Banding is the overall best combination as it does scale into multitarget as opposed to Elemental Focusing Lens.

The long-term solution is to directly craft both using sparks at the highest item level possible, but that does imply dropping a Mythic level Main hand through Mythic plus before entering in Mythic Raid the second week.

An alternative is to craft both main hand and offhand combo using sparks and leave wrists at 590 item level, which would offer a higher spike in power at the expense of requiring an additional spark in the long term, with the understanding that crafted main-hand weapons will need to be replaced by Mythic drops counterpart due to item level difference.

Wearing 2 and 4 pieces from the Rites of the Hexflame Coven set gives you the following bonuses:

• Warlock Demonology Season 1 2pc: Your primary demon deals 5% increased damage and your Shadow Bolt damage is increased by 50%.
• Warlock Demonology Season 1 4pc: Shadow Bolt has a chance to enrage your primary Felguard, increasing the damage of their next Legion Strike by 300%.

Both bonuses offer a passive damage increase, and as such, there is no alteration in terms of talent choices or playstyle.

It is important to note that achieving the Warlock Demonology Season 1 4pc is a higher gain than having the set on the sub-optimal slots.

That said, the ideal setup has the Head as the offset piece due a suboptimal stat distribution.

The easiest and most sensible way to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here, you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best. See below for a guide on how to sim yourself.

DISCLAIMER: sims are currently being developed; therefore, take the following charts with a grain of salt.