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

Hey Guys, hope all is well and I sincerely hope that all of you are enjoying Wrath of the Lich King thus far. As you know, Demonology Warlocks are manhandling Raids right now, so figured it was time for a Demonology Raid Guide. We’ll go over everything you need to know about Raiding as a Demonology Warlock.
As you guys know there's alot of things that go into playing a Demo lock and with that brings alot of min/maxing and finessing that you can do to ensure you’re sitting comfy atop those dmg meters. This is a longer video, so please use the timestamps to navigate to whatever part of the video you might need.
Written guide that I used as my script for those of you who prefer reading -docs.google.com/document/d/1V...
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WeakAuras - pastebin.com/u/Crix86
Phase 1 BiS Affliction - eightyupgrades.com/set/pCts7i...
Phase 1 BiS Demonology - eightyupgrades.com/set/6JvYPx...
Phase 1 BiS Support Demo - eightyupgrades.com/set/k59rvH...
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Phase 2 BiS Demonology - eightyupgrades.com/set/pDeKmp...
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0:00 - Patreon Shoutouts!! YOU'RE AMAZING AND I LOVE YOU
0:20 - Intro
1:20 - Demonology Overview
2:15 - Strengths & Weaknesses
4:15 - Support Demo vs Personal DPS Demo
6:11 - Talents
16:58 - Glyphs
18:41 - Stat Prio
21:08 - Professions
24:28 - Enchants
26:25 - Consumables
29:00 - Single Target Rotation
30:22 - AoE Rotation
31:23 - Execute Rotation
33:00 - Pre-Raid BiS
33:35 - Phase 1 BiS
35:18 - Gems
35:45 - WeakAuras and Macros
39:31 - Tips
42:29 - Thanks for Watching!

[@primecalibur]

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

[@saintxd8795]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@CrixGuides]

Update, dont put pet attack in your macros. How my Demonology homies doing? Hope you all enjoyed this and hope it helps! Phase 1 BiS video next, then Aff PvE Guide! Please hit that like button for me.? Come stop by My Discord if you have other questions and want to meet some other Warlock pumpers. My Discord - discord.gg/4jTNaZ48fb Demo spec - www.wowhead.com/wotlk/talent-calc/warlock/02-003203301135202530135201351-55000005_001pxp1259321xtr31rpp41rpz51rqe WA's - pastebin.com/u/Crix86 Phase 1 BiS Affliction - eightyupgrades.com/set/pCts7iCvKmNXp5HsTvqDEY Phase 1 BiS Demonology - eightyupgrades.com/set/6JvYPxvmXU6Tid9V8GbtZs Phase 1 BiS Full Support - eightyupgrades.com/set/k59rvHeaK5Tb5rNpjjpFf Warlock Discord(Best place on Northrend) - discord.gg/8mrt6DE My Twitch - www.twitch.tv/CrixVibez My Discord - discord.gg/4jTNaZ48fb My Twitter - twitter.com/CrixVibez My Instagram - instagram.com/crixvibez My Patreon - www.patreon.com/CrixGuides

[@Shawn-eb9wo]

Have a link to the Weak arua's you mentioned, looked on your discord couldn't find them under addons or in your pinned comments. I could also just be blind.

[@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!

[@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.

[@n0vember91]

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!

[@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!

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@jojo1der]

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!!

[@meekaeelmysorewala3544]

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

[@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

[@WisdomcubeWoW]

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

[@CrixGuides]

yo thank!!!

[@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 !

[@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

[@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!

[@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!

[@Huardo]

Excited for this!

[@sombrerocorelli734]

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

[@loicbiry3591]

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

[@Dishtation]

Very useful and compelete guide , thank you

[@Kewlandos]

Amazing guide bro! This helped alot

[@CrixGuides]

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

[@coolwinterstorm5803]

love the vids! keep going!

[@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

[@brandonlesko1099]

Very nice guide, well done

[@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

[@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

[@tafur1099]

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

[@hans8975]

MASSIVE and Wonderful!

[@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!

[@KB-nn2kp]

Gonna have me saying phenomenal crixx. great vid xd

[@typicalbrew90]

Keep it up!

[@horrorgirl7983]

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

[@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!

[@masefacegaming4560]

Great Video

[@Rashikisan]

great video

[@johnoroadkill9002]

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

[@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!

[@sadatx101]

My man sharon or sharoon the felguard appreciates the guide.

[@voidintel]

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

[@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!.

[@caiofoggi6210]

Thank you.

[@joshuamervine4209]

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

[@CodeLlama]

Thanks!

[@CrixGuides]

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

[@dafu24]

CRIX U ARE MVP

[@olliolli7313]

Hello Crix , has the speed rating a cap?

[@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? :)

[@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

[@stavey1123]

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

[@nickmarshall87]

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

[@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

[@jeremiahclark9152]

My boi Flaaghun pops off

[@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?

[@timopint1125]

Leeshnash likes Spiced Mammoth Treats and this Video

[@Connor1992wes]

with the infernal do you drop it then fel dom the felguard out to just get the drop damage or do you keep the infernal out for the full duration then go felguard?

[@murr395]

awesome guide as always, helps transitioning from main tank pala to my alt lock. felguard name is Kleknixx and my homie's felguard's called Kowlnixx

[@marc-antoineleber109]

Flaroon gang represent

[@SantaSoFresh]

Beast

[@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.

[@karlis6235]

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

[@langdangchang5152]

i've been using the lock weak aura, and i see it tracks your sundial. mine doesn't seem to track the aura and i cant figure it out. did you have to add the aura or alter it?

[@Svdb11]

What is the addon called right of ur player frame? The one that shows the spells?

[@nolenhammer21]

Yur a G for dis one

[@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.

[@dinnayboi8077]

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

[@yulumbra]

Haaroon Gang :D

[@JL-qo3ld]

dope guide! I think I will stay affliction though. Flame caps are too expensive

[@flubbz4627]

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

[@slovabomb3413]

Sharoon we always called her Sharon

[@nordmans_]

Not sure if this will be answeared but, if im running 3/3 suppresion as demo. What am i removing from the demo tree?

[@zaylight]

I cant seem to get demonic empowerment working to macro with anything, any tips? I've tried before and after the spell

[@Snawsages]

THank you for the guide and giving me some tip on what I may be missing for my Lock for the raids. My Felguard name is Akratom

[@HerzoggozreH]

Felguard name is VeeShril also big thanks for the video!

[@cameronstarnes2858]

yo can we get one of these but Affliction? i am doing semi ok damage as affliction on boss fights and i feel like im doing so much wrong, in TBC i slapped and was always 1-2 on the dps meter now im like 4th here 2nd there 8th here and 6th there its all over the place and i just know im not doing something right unless the class is HEAVILY gear dependent then i guess i could see thats how im not doing much. Ty in advance!

[@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

[@bamsen123]

what WA is it to the right of playerframe telling what spell rotaion?

[@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

[@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?

[@guntherwow8834]

Thanks for the video! Do we care at all about snapshotting corruption as a demo or does it not matter since we mainly need corruption for the MC proc?

[@CrixGuides]

It's not a huge deal like Aff. Since that corruption won't refresh naturally.

[@guntherwow8834]

@@CrixGuides Thanks appreciate it :) Loving your content btw!

[@danzfloor1]

Amazing guide.....One question, can you post a link to your weak auras pls? (Esp Decimation WA).....Thanks a lot. :)

[@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?

[@dacruise4439]

How does demonic pact work if you have two demo locks in the raid? Cause last night my guild had a new trial lock in the raid and he was also demo spec. With much worse gear than mine I am concerned that he will proc a shitty demonic pact before I can get a powerful one off. Btw my felguards name is "Kowlkrill". Pretty happy with that :)

[@AlasdairKing]

Thanks

[@CrixGuides]

YO! Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! Glad to help. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with and big cheers.

[@QumarsMehrabani]

Hi .Can a level 20 warlock by ritual Summoning summon a level 70 hero? lich king Patch

[@Purrfected]

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

[@ryanavz9867]

Are there any phase 2 affliction lock guides? Or is demo still viable

[@amazingdad2060]

Does any of the auras track Ebon plaguebringer and earth and moon?

[@Scrubosaurus]

This was so helpful. As the full support bitch, I thank you for your hard work and knowledge. :)

[@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

[@iyaramonk]

I see you have a weakaura for trinkets, cloak etc. Can you share it?

[@SimonGoldberger]

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

[@roujin518]

Question about incenerate v shadow bolt. If you had another lock you knew 100% would keep the debuff going and considering how close the dmg is for Shadowbolt and incenerate is would it be worth it to pick up the incenerate glyph over quick decay, skip the imp shadow bolt talent to pick up aftermath and cataclysm?

[@poopnukem4079]

You should look up the hybrid spec, it's pretty much what you're describing but leans even more in to the destro tree at the cost of demonic pact and meta.

[@OtisJCW]

You haven't linked your weak auras or macros in the video description, can you please update this.

[@harl96]

what is the WA/Addon that is showing the next ability to use ?

[@ongames1]

Where can I go to get the import strings for these weakauras?