Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Intellect >> Haste > Crit = Mastery = Versatility
Item level or Intellect value should not be understated, especially early in an expansion. Very often, if it's a significant item level upgrade (13+ item level) then it will be a DPS upgrade to wear it regardless of the stats. As always, sim yourself with Raidbots.com for an accurate assessment of what gear to put on.
All stats scale well with demonology’s toolkit, even versatility is back as a relevant stat and should be overlooked.
Stat Outline
Intellect is a flat damage increase to all your abilities.
As for secondary stats, it comes down to damage per point. Here is an outline of what the stats do and how they interact with Demonology’s toolkit.
Haste: Increases casting/attack speed for both you and your pets. This is especially relevant for imps as they have a set amount of firebolts (6) and will time out faster with more haste. To offset this, you summon imps faster with more haste so it evens itself out in terms of rotational gameplay.
Mastery: Mastery increases all of your pets damage as well as implosion and bilescourge bombers (if talented).
Versatility: Gives damage to all your abilities, and half of that damage bonus as damage reduction. In some situations you can choose to use a higher versatility gear setup to survive certain mechanics, although I doubt with the current state of warlock defensives that will be an issue outside of PvP.
Critical Strike: Crit does not interact with Demolology’s toolkit in any meaningful way and is just a chance to deal double damage (this does not mean its a bad stat). It is a more sought after stat for demonbolt focused talent setups as the spell doesn't benefit from mastery.
Races
The difference between the best and the worst race for Demonology Warlock is less than 2%. But all the same, here are the top 5 (0.5% difference).
Likely to be one of these races:
- Mechagome
- Orc
- Tauren
- Dwarf
- Troll
Enchants
You should sim for ring enchants, flask, food and gems for the most accurate results for your character.
Cloak: Chant of Winged Grace
Chest: Crystalline Radiance
Bracers: Chant of Armored Avoidance
Boots: Scout’s March
Legs: Sunset Spellthread
Rings: Radiant Critical Strike
Weapon: Authority of Radiant Power
Gems
Technically the Culimating Blasphemite is more damage, but the damage loss for picking up Elusive Blasphemite instead is well worth the movement speed increase in my opinion.
- Culminating Blasphemite or Elusive Blasphemite
- Masterful Ruby
- Deadly Onyx
- Deadly Emerald
- Deadly Sapphire
Consumables
Food:
Phials: Flask of Alchemical Chaos
Potions: Tempered Potion
Health Potions: Algari Healing Potion
Weapon Oil: Algari Mana Oil
Augment Rune: Crystallized Augment Rune