Demonology Warlock PvE Guide - Talents, Rotations, Gearing, Glyphs, Stats, Gems, Enchants, Consumes.

[@primecalibur]

Destro locks: back in my day, we would cast shadowbolt and that's the way we liked it!

[@user-il6se9ns9m]

I always appreciate the addition of timestamps, really turns the content into reference material.

[@hallettnr]

By far the best detailed Demo guide out there right now. Thanks for the video!

[@AmishMinister]

Thank you. I was chosen to be respecced as a demo for my guild, and had never played one. this was a huge huge help.

[@CrixGuides]

GL and go pump!

[@idpsutank1]

My Felguard is named Zerikzinul and hes a gigachad. Thanks for the guides as always crixx and can't wait for more through out the rest of Wotlk classic!

[@Anaomilfairbanks]

I think this is the best name

[@darrenj232]

What a great guide. I recently rolled a Demo Warlock and this guide helped a lot. Thanks man. 👍

[@CrixGuides]

I'm glad you liked it. One thing I'd change is to not pet /petattack Macros in there!

[@laggitech]

awesome work. Thank you. I swapped my destro lock for demo and im going my 1st 25man raid today with it. Much thank you.

[@BREAKocean]

How'd it go? You should save up for dual spec if you don't, I just started raiding as demo

[@davidthedawg6905]

Thank you, Crix! You're super-duper Amazing! So helpful and I can listen to your professor's lectures for hours, no problem about it! You are the Best!

[@petequesada2936]

Thank you. I realized a few days ago that I've been playing a destruction demon lock. Duh! Though I do decent dps, I had NO idea what a noob I've been. Spending two days reading and watching other videos and I was sure I wouldn't be able to comprehend the different rotations and changing from melee to ranged and back and forth and cooldowns and... I will watch this video again and again and practice on daily H to get better. I'm as apprehensive as I am exited. Great video. Thank you again!

[@im_capy]

rerolled from being a pally main to a lock main. Just hit 80 last week, and I'm doing ICC (H) tonight. This guide about to save me a headache. GG fam

[@meekaeelmysorewala3544]

Finally, thank you for this video it was much needed. You the man crix VIBEZ

[@saintxd8795]

that guide is insanely good and well-put. keep up the great content! I appreciate you

[@CodeLlama]

Hey! Just want to say THANKS SO MUCH for these warlock videos!! I'm maining Demo warlock for the first time and I'm doing super well thanks to you and your tips!! My guild is blown away by my support demo warlock. I love the weakauras you linked too. Keep up with the fantastic content! Also my Felguard is named Haatom.

[@Johbe1110]

Really nice guide! Currently "rerolling" a warlock for Ulduar for my guild and this helped me so much. A macro I also like is having /cast Fel Dominance and /cast Summon Felguard on one button.

[@CrixGuides]

GL!!

[@gwynethcook5663]

I am so glad I found your channel .(Pally ret player) . Fell in love with my baby lock . You have been the best for info add-ons and everything else i need for my Demo lock. I was in hospital recently for a week no wow:( But my entertainment of choice was studying your vids with strange looks from Nurses. Thanks for great info! please keep them coming ! Gurgison 80 demo lock and Izikorill Felguard supreme

[@CrixGuides]

Thank you so much!! That means alot

[@raww999]

damn youre very articulate ,makes it easy to understand for me as european ,more than others,i allso like the fact that its quite fast for the amount of information youre giving and you did mention all the important things i feel .Great !

[@Kennypowers51]

thank you for this vid, answered a lot of questions i had with the rotation with the rotation without having to find answers individually. Felgaurd is Ikzilrike.

[@Isellmysoulforbeer]

guildmate has the best Felguard name i've seen so far. its straight up Shaaroon and i all i can think off is Ozzy Osbourne shouting "Shaaaaron!" everytime i see that damn pet

[@herbythechef7624]

That is awesome lol

[@mattuhlan337]

I went into wrath planning to be affliction the entire expansion. But followed your advice weeks ago to quest as affliction and be demo in dungeons with dual spec. Well.... doing dungeons while leveling then heroics at 80 made me fall in love with demo spec. Those 20k+ soul fire crits are juuuuicy. Not to mention I out dps nearly everything in Heroics except for the occasional boomkin. Thanks Crix for what you do for the Classic community of locks. "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

[@TheDefirion]

we are living the same life xD

[@Witchmare]

Thanks man. I'm in a high preforming guild on Whitemane and wanted to bring my parses back up. Good content man. This helped a lot.

[@CrixGuides]

Happy to help. Good luck!

[@KingKardboard]

Thank you dude! I am leveling my lock now and I am so pumped. I have a boomie now so I am used to the hard cast life. Love the videos

[@CrixGuides]

NP. Enjoy!

[@callmemc6]

This guide is absolutely incredible! I'm brand new to WoW classic (and pretty much WoW as a whole), and I can't describe with words how much this has helped me get my head around Demo mechanics. I've done two 25 man Naxx so far and I went from dead last on DPS charts to 11th in a few days just by using this video as reference. And I got Vinikvegen as my Felguard name

[@WisdomcubeWoW]

I can tell you put alot of work into this, good stuff.

[@CrixGuides]

yo thank!!!

[@sombrerocorelli734]

Amazing guide sir. It helped me a lot on Warmane server. Just keep up posting this content. Love it :)

[@karaffenfraeser256]

Finally the video I was waiting, nay, longing for! Thank you very much for your tips on how I can beat our pesky mages next raid. And thanks from my felguard FlaaShekor as well!

[@Fortem94]

Damn, This had some great info. I’ve been stacking too much hit and being abit heavy on the support side, Will try to go for a more personal dps side. Got a shit ton of gear by pure luck so im excited to see how much i can pump! Thanks for the vid!

[@Huardo]

Excited for this!

[@Tyson909]

Amazing guide as always Crix, thank you! Also, you need revered with Kirin Tor, not exalted to get the head enchant - just thought you should know :D

[@scyris8354]

For starters - Just rolled my os demo for the guildies and my Felguard name? Skurikrike. Hard to look at but actually pretty dope spoken out loud. Anyways this guide is fucking fantastic and as usual Crix you are a boss, thanks for your hard work man!

[@loicbiry3591]

Wonderful video ! Everything is inside. And a good training for non-english native as you speak so fast :) Thx again master warlock

[@horrorgirl7983]

My felguard is Haakrill. I actually love his name. Thanks for this video because I have been looking to up my dps.

[@stavey1123]

If you have trouble getting shoulder enchants there is an enchant at Honored. It's worse but your raid leader will be happy.

[@Kewlandos]

Amazing guide bro! This helped alot

[@CrixGuides]

No problem. Glad to help. GL on your adventures.

[@kylethegamer_]

Yo crix. This is Voidintel on Grobbulus. Ty for the great guides as always. My Felguard's name is Flaaghun. I call him the Flaaghun Wagon :P lololol

[@Dishtation]

Very useful and compelete guide , thank you

[@dinnayboi8077]

HAAROON! I imagine it's his warcry. Very fun to say

[@yulumbra]

Haaroon Gang :D

[@Xenoblood23]

My Felguard is named Thoothun. So its a cool inside joke in the raid like Mike Tyson doing Rag's voice line "Thoothun Executus."

[@Beranin]

mine too!

[@zumwali]

Thoothun gang

[@jasonhodsonmusic]

I thought my felgaurd name was badass! I got "okinzinul" haha

[@chadlordsosa]

Mine is like shutkirzeel or something so I call him “Skrrt Skrrt”

[@will_saoren]

Mine also

[@sadatx101]

My man sharon or sharoon the felguard appreciates the guide.

[@KB-nn2kp]

Gonna have me saying phenomenal crixx. great vid xd

[@hans8975]

MASSIVE and Wonderful!

[@Beranin]

My FG's name is "Thoothun" I imagine it's Mike Tyson saying "Susan". On retail, when I played wrath current, my FG's name is Thooshril.

[@tafur1099]

Great informative vid; as always! Since you asked, my Felguard's name is Thoodhun. Pretty standard meh for demons.

[@timopint1125]

Leeshnash likes Spiced Mammoth Treats and this Video

[@slovabomb3413]

Sharoon we always called her Sharon

[@johnoroadkill9002]

My Felguard Haathun thanks you for helping me make him so much more powerful.

[@marc-antoineleber109]

Flaroon gang represent

[@coolwinterstorm5803]

love the vids! keep going!

[@brandonlesko1099]

Very nice guide, well done

[@Bluezbreakr2]

Shaaghun is my Felguard. This isn't really that neat in and of itself, but when a buddy of mine respec'd from affliction a few weeks back we found out that our raid actually has....two Shaaghuns. The chances for that are incredibly low, from what I can tell

[@GLGtimrosh]

pet's name is Thoothun, its a raid norm to say its name like Mike tyson. if Susan beats your damage, you dont get loot on the boss.

[@SparkyNorth]

No one's name beats the mighty KRIMSHRIL!

[@typicalbrew90]

Keep it up!

[@joshuaabbott9410]

Hey Crix. Some of your weakauras in this video are not linked on your other video nor this one. How can I find them? After the pet attacking one and engi one mainly. Managed to find the others. Love your work. You have helped me so much!.

[@jeremiahclark9152]

My boi Flaaghun pops off

[@TheDefirion]

Proper demon name on mine Ikzilvazul, I was messing around on a sim and figured I was using the wrong stone and curse but this video cleared up and gave me some extra things i can do, next week we climb out of the high 70 and hit dem 90 parces!

[@xxtardelixxable]

If you are in competitive guild that clears HMs on week 1 or 2, you are most likely going to be a parser and a pumper, losing stats such as hit will remove the ability to pump and parse. 200 spell power that you will get extra will only result in negligible difference on that demonic pact and you will lose a lot of dps yourself and the ability to parse. If you are not in competitive guild and don't clear stuff on the first few weeks, that demonic pact spell power difference wont really matter as your guild will take longer time to clear the bosses anyway, and unless you are in those 5-10% that are competitive, supporting your raid wont really matter, as you guys already need crap ton of support on other things. All the top parsers and pumpers will opt in more haste and hit cap than max spell power. Don't get baited by spell power stacking demo lock guys, you will lose shit ton of dmg and so will your raid. The gear they are feeding your wont make any difference since you will be missing your spells, and fights are relatively fast so more haste means more shadow bolts and soul fires

[@drumlineking07]

Nitro BOOSTS! Not Nitro Boots lol. But great guide. I plan on coming back to this video once I eventually level up a Warlock since Demo is my favorite spec.

[@CrixGuides]

Idk why I say that so much lol

[@herbythechef7624]

But they are boots lol i call them nitro boots all the time

[@Rashikisan]

great video

[@CodeLlama]

Thanks!

[@CrixGuides]

Thank you so much! That's super nice of you. Glad you enjoyed it

[@joshuamervine4209]

Great video, thank you! Felguard name: Flaaghun, I think of it as pronounced as "flagon". Not bad.

[@SantaSoFresh]

Beast

[@masefacegaming4560]

Great Video

[@CLTaylor311]

Can anyone help me find the addon/WeakAura for the rotation (seen between player frame and target frame in the video)? Thanks

[@CrixGuides]

It's an addon called Nugkeyfeedback

[@michaelderouen8144]

You should never have to hold your Felguard back since pact will always overwright the weaker version, but will never overwright a strong buff with a weeker buff.

[@Dizeliun]

why dont you want to clip the immolate or corruption?

[@CrixGuides]

You wouldn't be getting the full value out of your dots my man.

[@MrSanctuarys]

If iam about to leave meta I clip dots so they retain the snapshot damage from meta. Is that a dps loss?

[@user-fw5tr8ht1e]

What's the more DPS efficient opening rotation? Corruption - immolate - COA Immolate - COA - corruption Immolate - corruption - COA Immolate -COA have the same dot duration as demonology when applied in that order, therefore can be applied in that order every 24 seconds. It's where corruption fits into the rotation. Any advice?

[@dafu24]

CRIX U ARE MVP

[@DostLP]

Nice guide, thanks. Some questions though: We apply all the dots while meta is running because the %-dmg modifier snapshots, correct? So should we also re-apply the dots before meta runs out (as long as the fight is long enough for the dots to run out) or rather keep spamming shadowbolt in that precious time? Is CoD really snapshoting too? So apply while meta and still get 20% dmg buff a for the dmg calculation one minute later?

[@poopnukem4079]

Yes that is correct. Assuming you aren't running glyph of meta, if you just do the opener normally and apply dots just after they run out, you will find that you'll be reapplying corruption and immolate just before meta ends to snapshot the buff for longer. This happens literally every pull for me. CoD snapshots, this is the most important spell by far to make sure is pressed during meta and not just outside of it. If you have to elements then do this before meta.

[@Lighthammer18]

Keep in mind that JC is only strong right now in the easy phase because epic gems aren't out. In the next phase JC will give 48SP, Alchemy will give 47SP and Blacksmithing will give 46SP. They are pretty much equal at that point.

[@Lordturisas1]

JC is more of a hassle. Going BS, enchanting, or alchemy is nearly identical without having to worry about gem placement on gear sets.

[@Lighthammer18]

@@Lordturisas1 yep, very true

[@niklaslarsson8177]

My Felguard's name is Akrazugul and he is a good boy!

[@MrRadiss]

Skreekorak is my Felguard's name, which I think is pretty funky

[@flubbz4627]

Great video Crix, any chance you could do a Naxx Demo parsing guide?

[@markbuchbach9639]

I don't like using up a BoP before someone pulls threat instead train your Paladins to give Hand of Salvation when they see someone turn large and purple or if they see a moonkin with the starfall aura.

[@Purrfected]

My Felguards name is Zurilshok, i think it's decent, not letting any foes get of the hook!

[@HerzoggozreH]

Felguard name is VeeShril also big thanks for the video!

[@nickmarshall87]

for demo locks how different is 15 spirit on chest over 10 stats? demonic knowledge must make that gap really small right?

[@Coli272]

I have a Shaaroon and she wants to speak to the raid leaders manager quite often...

[@SimonGoldberger]

Skelfaran is my Felguard here :) and what is your demonic pact macro please its not in the written guide :(

[@Beranin]

0:56 you give up on the ele shaman? was looking forward to a guide

[@CrixGuides]

I did. Sadly.

[@jordanlawlor]

Vinikzinul is the name and he dies 20 times per raid

[@CrixGuides]

WTF that's a dope name. That sounds like an Imp's name

[@Sharpypus]

Love the guide, I'm playing on Chromiecraft and just switched to Demo, loving it so far. Sorry to be that guy, but could I also ask for your WA and the rotation addon you have in-between your unit frames?

[@MrSanctuarys]

His WA is in the description

[@CrixGuides]

Take your pick homie pastebin.com/u/Crix86

[@DeathJest]

My Fel is Flaatom, we call 'em Flat Tom.

[@turetarmskott6151]

I got your felguards copycat, Jhuuroon

[@CrixGuides]

JHUUROO GANG

[@a1mtarabichi]

I take a slightly different approach for single-target. Rather than using improved shadow bolt immediately after lifetap; I lifetap -> curse of doom -> corruption -> immolate then spam shadowbolt / incinerate depending on procs while keeping DoTs up. I don't use speed pots until shaman lusts since you can only use one per fight. This also helps ensure you can save time by *not* needing to soulshatter which saves you the global cd + time spent soulshattering and lets you dive right into DPS without worrying about threat.

[@justinyocom1099]

eventually they will give fel guard a whirlwind, then its game over for afflic.

[@JohnMichaelHaas]

Blagshekor... I dont hate it but I am excited to learn demo! I love afflic, but I dont want to get burnt out so I am going to try Demo in raid!

[@zeldabob888]

My Felguard's name is Haaghun, so I call him Haaghun-Dazs

[@Alataria999]

Damn mine’s Haadhun, siblings perhaps?

[@zeldabob888]

@@Alataria999 Long lost brothers!

[@markenggaard1692]

glyph of haunt as demo in your glyphs x:

[@jonasmaki8346]

can you give a link to the WA that keeps track of the next spell to cast, that is just right of your portrait?

[@CrixGuides]

It's an addon called Nugkeyfeedback

[@jonasmaki8346]

@@CrixGuides thanks!

[@nolenhammer21]

Yur a G for dis one

[@muelass]

Heyo! Loved the video again @crix! Looked on your pastebin but couldnt find which WA is the one to hide the release button. Any helpers? :)

[@blank4142]

How do you get your combat bars like that at 2:47? I'm assuming it's with bartender but what settings do you use to make it like that?

[@MrExeetor]

hurt my melee heart alot seeing a Demolock running in on KT and standing inbetween the two melee camps xD that could have been a very nice Chain xD

[@jasoncaetano8288]

What is the addon /weakaura that is recommending spells b/w the player and enemy unit frames? I cant seem to find any mention of that rotation helper. Is it an addon or part of a weak aura? when I download both panel and buffs this feature doesn't show

[@DannyMan27X]

Maybe a stupid question but another lock friend asked and I honestly didnt know the answer. During meta, should we ever use shadow bolt or just the shadow cleave? I do not but was asked "so you're just standing auto attacking?" so now I feel stupid I guess.

[@justseven3487]

Soooo when do you use Shadowbolt rank 1? Opening just for the crit or?

[@rakanaljuaid6201]

Hey bro, you said you only use spellstone, but I’ve found using Firestone for the insane crit chance increase. Is that not something we need as demo?

[@cyanophage4351]

Yeah your raid leader will love you for that /petattack macroed into shadowbolt. It makes pulling all the adds on Kel Thuzad really easy 😝

[@snooginzboobookittyfuk1874]

Double edged sword

[@karlis6235]

Thank you for this! Is there a text version for the macros you mention? I read the script, only rank 1 shadowbolt there.. :)

[@THELEIFMEISTER]

SkurikSHOKIN!