Demonology Warlock Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Hand Of Gul'dan damage increased by 15%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Your Dreadstalkers deal 10% increased damage and last 3 additional sec.

The tier set is largely uninteresting. It does not have a big impact on playstyle and the damage gained from it seems largely underwhelming. It slightly favors Diabolist in terms of impact, but it does not automatically decide the Hero Talent choice.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Demonology Warlock, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

A good guideline at the moment is: Item Level > Crit > Haste / Mastery >> Versatility.

The three trinkets that really stand out are Emberwing Feather, Vaelgor's Final Stare and Locus-Walker's Ribbon.

Luckily, the Emberwing Feather Trinket is farmable in Season 1 of Midnight in Mythic+. The Crucible Of Erratic Energies (Voidstorm trinket) is a surprisingly good trinket for being capped at 263 item level and can easily be a bridge until a better passive trinket is acquired such as Locus-Walker's Ribbon.

As a general rule you want to use 1 on-use and 1 passive trinket, however, the correct answer for your specific character is always going to be sim which is the best.

A combination of these trinkets is advised.

On-use Trinkets:

• Emberwing Feather (BiS)
• Vaelgor's Final Stare (Alternative)

Passive Trinkets:

• Gaze Of The Alnseer (BiS)
• Locus-Walker's Ribbon (Alternative)
• Crucible Of Erratic Energies (Alternative)

Embellishments are additional effects you place on crafted items that increase their power.Most of the time this will boil down to which embellishment or embellishment combo is performing the best.If you have access to full max level 6/6 myth gear these embellishments will be crafted on lower stat budget pieces such as bracers, offhand, cloak etc as they can only be crafted to 285 item level while max item level on gear is 289.

However, if you don’t have access to the best gear in the game, but you do have access to Mythic crests then this logic flips and you would want to craft embellishments on HIGH budget pieces such as Chest or a Weapon.

Best Embellishments and Crafted Gear for Demonology Warlock

As it stands right now, 2x Arcanoweave Lining is the best embellishment option.

This is ideally put into low budget slots like wrists and cloak, but filling out a higher budget piece like chest/head etc. can be a good temporary solution until better options come along.

Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores)

With the release of patch 12.0.5, you’ll be able to obtain and use Nebulous Voidcores to easily target specific pieces of gear from either Raid bosses or Mythic+ Dungeons.

Once an item has been looted once via Bonus Rolls, that item is removed from the loot pool from future Bonus Rolls.

Your high priority items to spend your Bonus Rolls on are as follows:

Sporefall drops higher item level loot than any other source at the moment, and should be prioritized for bonus rolling until the Chest, Neck, Ring and Feet have been acquired.

Nexus Point Weapon is chosen because of the quality of the rest of the loot, most Pieces can be catalyst into tier or are good pieces on their own, including the ring set.

If you do not have access to Mythic Raids, the best way to spend Bonus Rolls is to prioritise items you can catalyst into Mythic Tier.

Voidforge (Ascendant Voidcores)

After unlocking the Voidforge, you’ll be able to collect Ascendant Voidcores to upgrade your weapons and trinkets, via Midnight end-game content.

The upgrade priority is as follows:

1. Myth Track Weapon
2. Crafted Weapon
3. Myth Track Trinkets
4. Hero Track Trinkets

Once your item is ‘Ascendant Voidforged’ you will no longer be able to upgrade it.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Demonology Warlock:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Lynxlike Reflexes
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Critical Power
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.