5.4 Destruction Warlock DPS Guide - Warcraft Academy

[@DooMERful]

man this guy surely knows his warlock

[@XiGlenGu]

So far the best guide i have watched for destro lock.

[@TommyFosland_DiscGolf]

I have 7 lvl 90's, and ive seen most guides of all the classes. YOU SIR, have one of the best guide ive seen inawhile. Subscribed

[@Mastashad160]

Awesome guide. You pointed out a lot of little things that would have taken weeks to notice on my own.

[@kassabis]

I stopped playing about 2y ago and I was demo. Just got back and with this tutorial, I managed to go up to 120k with my old 505 gear. Thanks a lot. Very helpful.

[@Rompelstaump]

Thank you for making all the great videos! It really helps me play better. The video also gives me a solid point of reference when I try to help other players understand what is expected of them when they play this class/spec in a raid capacity.

[@Black14825]

Lol at the mage at 12:47 taking the bomb directly on his face. Btw great guide it helped me a lot!

[@Ulandos]

Thank you for this guide. Helped a lot :)

[@Jasaface]

love the topic selection at the top

[@grzala19]

Good old times

[@evreliagaming]

If you check the gem section, the expertise gems are mentioned, including an explanation of when to use them. Not to mention that it's not just as simple as "stacking expertise". This is only useful if it does allow you to reforge out of hit into more Mastery on your gear. If you are not able to do that, for example if you're already fully reforged out of hit and fully reforged into Mastery, you won't gain anything by doing so. You have to think about it a bit :)

[@Qwertyzionxd]

Hey ! This is a really nice guide, I just would like to share my havoc macro with you ,its a bit more complex but very useful ! #showtooltip Havoc /cast [mod:shift,@focus][@mouseover,harm[] Havoc What it does,is : If you have an enemy targeted,you cast Havoc on it If you have a target mouseover, you cast Havoc on that If you have focus target and you press your macro with shift modifier ( e.g. shift+q) , You cast Havoc on your focus target. I hope its helpful and good luck ,keep it up with your vids !

[@Oddie_021]

This one works the exact same way as urs except for no need to press shift if u got a enemy on focus and put ur mouseover another one u havoc ur mouseover target if u have a focus target and u don't mouseover u do it on the focus target and so on and so on #showtooltip havoc /cast [target=mouseover, exists] havoc /cast [target=focus, harm][harm] havoc /cast havoc

[@evreliagaming]

That question is answered in the video. Depends on the situation.

[@quinlintaylor]

This is a great guide, thank you once again warcraft academy.

[@celladify]

It wasn't just time management. It was the "real life" change of character. The anger.

[@evreliagaming]

That is a good suggestion, I'll add them to the written guide.

[@evreliagaming]

I don't know why people keep saying this, but all the Engi perk is a Glove tinker, and all tinkers also stack with standard enchants.

[@evreliagaming]

You can Spam them. There was a hypothetical situation a while ago where you could clip it if you cast one and the boss travelled towards you extremely quickly as you cast the second, but that's just never going to happen.

[@trygaeyheryqy]

Most guides for patch 5.3 said that the stat prio was Haste > Mastery > Crit, but now alot of them state that in patch 5.4 the stat prio is Mastery > Crit > Haste. What changed? is it the warlock class or because of the SoO raid mechanics?

[@isoking9727]

Ahh I miss the day ..:(

[@xDFoRcEzZ]

That is some crazy ass crits

[@ParanoidPothead]

Does anyone else have problems with occasionally falling through the water with the warlock mount walk on water glyph?

[@evreliagaming]

Yup.

[@wtflasergunpewpew]

it's because u took damage, unmount and try again -u'll see.

[@Dreamchime]

As far as I know, you will fall through the water if you stop moving.

[@lilkick255]

no, u can stop moving but if you face or look down you will fall in. unlike when you take damage though you can pop back up and walk without dismounting. If you take any damage even small fall damage you have to dismount and remount.

[@PlastKladd]

It could be because you're holding your right mouse button down and looking down too much which will result in the mount diving.

[@Kadotas]

Thank you for the guide evrelia! And congrats on Garrosh kill!!!!

[@Nunchukd]

You are correct. Personally I would roll with GoSac only once I started to get closer to BiS gear and was using the Burning Primal Diamond.

[@hxigg]

Do you think demonology is too neutered to use in 5.4? It's my favorite spec, but I have to try really hard to pull off 30k less dps than my destruction spec can pull off when I'm not even trying with my destruction spec....

[@Mattey245]

Can you please post your hidden bars keybinds and spells ? or at least the hidden keybinds

[@Akecheta230]

I am curious as to know what add-ons you're using...

[@evreliagaming]

There's no reason why you shouldn't use GoSac before BiS, especially given the nature of most SoO encounters.

[@pongueurlacoste]

You will most likely be already fully reforged into mastery, but what makes these gems interesting is the fact that your "second best" secondary stat (crit or haste) is still better than 50% of int, because you're effectively trading 80int for 160 haste/crit by putting such a gem on.

[@TheGamerReaper]

Warlock UI and addon guide please :D

[@FoxLightstep]

This.

[@someidiotinnj]

He already did one a while ago look up "How Your UI Can Help You DPS"

[@adioprotege]

in order to cleave with shadowburn do both targets need to be under 20%

[@evreliagaming]

It would be better to reforge between bosses, it's not like Reforging is that expensive, and you can use the same gems between specs. Destro likes crit and Affli just does not.

[@Kenziex123]

Wow, beautiful guide... please make more!

[@outlawbogz]

Also you want to stack expertise over intellect. As 2 points of mastery is more beneficial than 1 point on intel. So you stack expertise to reforge the hit back in mastery.

[@Eindridi1661]

a shift focus target macro for havoc works much better, it only targets your focus if you shift click it, so you can use it like normal if for some reason you don't need to put it on your focus target. it really just saves a button slot.

[@nadendas]

i use the mouse over macro and should i ever go back to the focus macro i'll cry

[@rasmusknutmejer4391]

A great guide! But you forget one thing. Grimoire of Sacrifice Chaos Bolt debuff on target. If you cast Chaos Bolt twice in a row without anything in between the debuffs final tick wont happen. Always cast an Incinirate in between your Chaos Bolts.

[@evreliagaming]

That's not true. If you cast Chaos Bolts back to back it is impossible to clip the debuff of the previous one unless the boss moves towards you a significant distance between the casts.

[@rasmusknutmejer4391]

Depending on the distance to the boss ofcourse. But remember, the final tick is always when the DoT finishes! But I feel you bro.. I feel you

[@evreliagaming]

Rasmus Knutmejer It doesn't depend on the distance to boss. The time taken for the Chaos Bolt to travel will be the same relative. The only way for it to be clipped is if the boss moves towards you a significant distance in between the two casts - not going to happen unless the boss is enraged and charging at you.

[@diegorueda5047]

@@evreliagaming .

[@outlawbogz]

The Conflag glyph is useful too at times too. For instance on dark shamans when you want to AOE snare the adds but dont have time or embers to waste applying immolate

[@evreliagaming]

There is a video on this channel somewhere that explains all my addons

[@sceneCatgirl]

You mention that either the legs or chest are the optimal off pieces, but wouldn't it be better to go for WF shoulders since the tier shoulders are the only tier piece that doesn't have mastery?

[@evreliagaming]

It is minimal, but it's still better. Likewise, so is the difference between haste and crit. In fact, if you care about that, you should definitely care about using the correct meta.

[@erickemmerling9124]

If you are going with a Crit>Mastery build you wouldnt take that chest you would take the shoulders off norushen and keep your tier chest since it has basically the same stats

[@evreliagaming]

Well 486 is pretty horrible... you can get like full 535 gear from Timeless isle

[@husky7876]

does chaos bolt snapshot your stats like immolate?

[@evreliagaming]

At the exact second the cast is finished, it snapshots your stats

[@evreliagaming]

Then you checked a very long time ago, because Expertise gives Spell Hit and has done for this entire expansion.

[@Eva_xoxo]

You are wrong when you say that Fire and brimstone doesnt benefit from grimoire of sac, because you do get a DPS increase from your spells AOE. This was a buff some months ago, other than that good guide.

[@evreliagaming]

Grimoire of Sacrifice does nothing for AoE. Test it out. The change you are referring to was a bug where it incorrectly REDUCED spell damage. Now it just does nothing.

[@lilkick255]

if you look at the sacrifice talent it will tell you straight out it doesn't effect the aoe damage of fire and brimstone

[@diegorueda5047]

@@lilkick255 .

[@TehSqueakySniper]

How come you've not mentioned the trinket from Malkorak? I would have thought that one would have been a better choice that Kardis

[@ygar]

quick question... why tailoring and engineering? Thought the back enchant/tinker can't stack?

[@pking5]

When you choose the talent Grimoire of Supremacy, the Observer will take the place of your Fel Hunter.

[@evreliagaming]

That's the Gold Challenge Mode gear set.

[@connornichel]

Wow, 1 million critical strikes with the Chaos Bolt. Impressive

[@ThrishWoW]

Ever gonna do a demo lock guide? :)

[@michaelflood1225]

Thanks for the video this is really gonna help me out

[@starlite7249]

Love your guide's keep up the good work.

[@HenshenKlein]

So you should dump embers when you are reaching 4 even without good procs?

[@jeffreykurtz635]

I noticed you didnt mention the frenzied crystal of rage in the gear section is that because its not a viable trinket?

[@michaelcliburn966]

You didn't mention Frenzied Crystal of Rage, is this trinket better than others for heavy aoe fights such as Galakras?

[@Gre3dish]

Great guide as always.

[@JixMM]

hi can you tell me your macros and addons? this was pretty nice 

[@evreliagaming]

Uh, yes it should. Why would you possibly think CB is better?

[@ekilam1able]

Isnt crit much better than haste for GoSac due to back draft? With high haste and meta proc/hero it will put your cast BELOW the GCD. Would that not be a DPS loss?

[@brut1s]

great video Evrelia, thanks for your great insight :)!

[@adioprotege]

I am currently wearing 561 Rime-Rift shoulders and 567 wf Ulmass’ Robes of Crushing Magma. My question is would it be better to replace the chest with 561 tier and the shoulders with flex tier to gain the 4 pc bonus?

[@danieltsmoke]

when you use fire and brimstone, and say you use it on like 8 mobs with incinerate, will you get 8 emberbits? Or.... ?

[@DeepSpaceBeans]

probably more than 8, since crits will produce double. Ideally, when you have a large add aoe burn phase, if you immolate and keep rain of fire up, you can stay in fire and brimstone indefinitely. Much better than how the spell used to work.

[@batterypower90]

alot if good information, but care to talk abit about the 4 set? how/if u change the roation with it, and if so what u do different with it.

[@danloader5821]

What Addons are most beneficial for destro locks in the sense of tracking Procs and multi-dots?

[@evreliagaming]

Alliance racials are generally pretty sucky. Troll/Orc much better overall. Worgen is the best Alliance race for a Warlock, but it's only 1% crit so it's not gonna make any noticeable difference if you're not raiding bleeding edge progression.

[@kristinaplays2924]

At 11.43 you say cast incinerate and immolate so that they both land on the start of the fight. How can you cast these two at the same time?

[@husky7876]

incinerate takes a couple seconds to reach its target, so while the incinerate projectile is traveling you can squeeze an immolate in.

[@JoachimBach]

What set is that shown on the two warlocks in the end of the movie? They look BRILLIANT! :)

[@nangzdk]

How are you supposed to soulburn drain life as destruction? Your comments on harvest life confuse.

[@ФедорХолодов-ф3в]

Can you please share the addon setup you used for this video?

[@ruchem71]

Is there an addon that can be used that will place the trinket/process icons in the middle of the screen so you can see them better? Great guide! Thanks.

[@evreliagaming]

That's a mistake, forgot to edit it out of the script from the Affli one =[

[@mustikat]

Is there any way to get your WTF folder and addon list ?

[@EnderDragon]

I have been trying to get Weak Auras (2 now) set up for my Warlock, but have failed in every attempt. Would you be able to provide a link to your WA setup?

[@LeMeAndLeAwesomeness]

What is the addon you use to keep track of your embers?

[@horde453]

Is it worth it to replace normal gear with LFR/Flex gear to get the 4-set bonus?

[@jamiearnold1075]

What is the interface HUD add on you are using? it looks great

[@ivanmendoza1592]

Great guides man. I have a trinket question. I currently have Flex 2/2 [Purified Bindings of Immerseus] Flex 2/2 [Kardris' Toxic Totem] Norm War [Black Blood of Y'Shaarj] Which would you recommend using? Thank you

[@Bajcleetus]

Wonderful guide! I'm wondering, as I'm currently lvling my warlock to 90, i have seen in other videos that Incinerate are going to several enemies, but was only casted once. I mean that they casted one incinerate, but hit several enemies, is that possible? THanks!

[@husky7876]

i wonder how much damage his chaos bolt will do with double trinkets + Dark Soul + pot

[@desijavier]

thanks for the guide! i have a noob question though; how do you summon the observer pet as a destruction warlock? i only see my imp, voidwalker, felhunter, and succubus available for summoning :s thanks in advance

[@ProtputBE]

Quick question: with GoSac, can you clip your chaos bolts, or can you spam em?

[@JYMBO]

i'm level 75, when do i get the overseer?

[@damnage97]

I stack haste over crit because the cd for crit and I feel a high crit rating is wasted for those portions of the fight..

[@evreliagaming]

Not sure what you mean. Crit has no cooldown.

[@damnage97]

***** the warlock cd that increases crit by 30% for 20 seconds

[@evreliagaming]

damnage97 That gives you a flat +30% crit chance, its not based on crit rating. Crit is good on gear because it increases ember generation and increases the damage chaos bolt does.

[@evreliagaming]

Ah fuck I meant to include that. The crit gem is best.

[@olan59]

You got strings on the weakauras you are useing? :)

[@Mrkookers]

yes plz any help on addons specialy if there is one that shows very well when trinket procs hit or any cooldowns

[@saminski4149]

is there any way to get his interface? i love it, but its fairly hard to recreate on your own

[@RupeeNL]

I'm been following this guide but I still find it hard to reach high dps. Do you think it's a gear thing as well (currently 486)?

[@seandillon2555]

Hey what do u use for reforge and gems MrRobot icy-veins or just from ur pov

[@Xadanar]

I have a question why are orange Intel Exper gems better than pure intel gems?????

[@evreliagaming]

Because the Expertise allows you to reforge out of Hit on your gear into more Mastery. Two points of Mastery is better than one point of Intellect.

[@DarkTurtle92]

My thing is I need to get out the habit of throwing in fel flame I feel like that lowers my dps rotation cause man

[@MrPondax]

What addons are you using to show the duration of Immolate etc?

[@christianlandmann9759]

Can you tell me the addons pls or if you have a video about that?

[@MichaelMoore497]

Very nice tutorial! It's a little advanced for me but I learned a lot. Still, I had to pause it, go look things up, like "whats a snapshot?" I feel like I was in the 102 class when I should have been the 101 class. If you could recommend something a little more basic, that would be great. Thanks again.

[@Gilroc64]

you should really provide information on your UI on the website you provided, and possibly a link to your weak auras strings, otherwise, good work

[@casperyap]

Hi, can i check what the frame addon did you use?

[@sydorack]

hey, what potion you use to start the rotation? i don't understand the name :x

[@thewinner4me816]

I'm years and years late but i just wanna know how destro played in MoP

[@evreliagaming]

Small world! I do indeed!