Demonology Warlock Raid Guide

Guillotine -- Casts Guillotine on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Guillotine

Demonic Strength / Bilescourge Bombers -- simple macro to have both Demonic Strength & Bilescourge Bombers on the same keybind while also casting Bilescourge Bombers on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [known: 267171] Demonic Strength
/cast [@cursor][known: 267211] Bilescourge Bombers

Shadowfury -- Casts Shadowfury on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Shadowfury

Curse of Weakness -- Amplify Curse before applying Curse of Weakness to your mouseover target or target.

#showtooltip Curse of Weakness
/cast [known:328774] Amplify Curse
/cast [@mouseover, exists, harm, nodead] Curse of Weakness; Curse of Weakness

Curse of Tongues -- Uses Amplify Curse before applying Curse of Tongues to your mouseover target or target..

#showtooltip Curse of Tongues
/cast [known:328774] Amplify Curse
/cast [@mouseover, exists, harm, nodead] Curse of Tongues; Curse of Tongues

Curse of Exhaustion -- Uses Amplify Curse before applying Curse of Exhaustion to your mouseover target or target.

#showtooltip Curse of Exhaustion
/cast [known:328774] Amplify Curse
/cast [@mouseover, exists, harm, nodead] Curse of Exhaustion;[@target] Curse of Exhaustion

Banish -- Casts Banish on your mouseover target if it exists.

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead,exists] Banish; [harm,nodead] Banish

Fear -- Casts Fear on your mouseover target if it exists.

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,exists]Fear;Fear

Soulstone Mouseover -- Casts Soulstone on your mouseover, conventional [@mouseover,exists] macros got broken a while ago, this is a workaround for it.

#showtooltip Soulstone 
/target [@mouseover,help] 
/cast Soulstone 
/targetlasttarget

Pet Ability 1 Macro -- Casts your main pet abilities for each pet on your mouseover target.

/cast [@mouseover]Singe Magic
/cast [@mouseover,exists]Spell Lock;Spell Lock
/cast [@mouseover]Suffering
/cast [@mouseover,exists]Seduce;Seduce
/cast [@mouseover,exists]Axe Toss;Axe Toss
/cast [nopet,@mouseover,exists]Command Demon;[nopet]Command Demon

Focus Pet Ability 1 Macro -- Casts your main pet abilities for each pet on your focus target.

/cast [@focus] Singe Magic
/cast [@focus] Spell Lock
/cast [@focus] Suffering
/cast [@focus] Seduce
/cast [@focus] Axe Toss
/cast [nopet,@focus] Command Demon

Pet Ability 2 Macro -- Casts your second relevant pet ability on your mouseover target if needed.

/cast [@mouseover] Singe Magic
/cast [@mouseover,exists] Devour Magic;Devour Magic
/cast Shadow Bulwark
/cast Felstorm 
/cast [nopet,@mouseover] Command Demon

Focus Pet Ability 2 Macro -- Casts the second relevant Pet ability on your focus target, and also sends your pet to attack your focus.

/cast [@focus]Singe Magic;
/cast [@focus] Devour Magic;
/cast [@focus] Lesser Invisibility;
/cast Shadow Bulwark;
/cast [nopet,@focus] Command Demon
/petattack [@focus]

Unending Breath Selftcast -- Casts Unending Breath on yourself without targeting anything. Useful for situations where you're not able to DPS anything to still fish for trinket procs/stacks.

#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Unending Breath

Mortal Coil / Howl of Terror choice -- Swaps between Mortal Coil and Howl of Terror depending on which talent got picked. Useful to add your own macro conditions like @focus or @mouseover etc.

/cast [known:Mortal Coil] Mortal Coil
/cast [known:Howl of Terror] Howl of Terror

All-In-One Potion -- all the different damage Tempered Potion, uses Grotesque Vial if you're dead.

/use [@player,nodead] item:212971
/use [@player,nodead] item:212265
/use [@player,nodead] item:212970
/use [@player,nodead] item:212264
/use [@player,nodead] item:212969
/use [@player,nodead] item:212263
/use [@player,dead]Grotesque Vial

• MRT -- Notes, Raid cooldowns, and more
  • Helpful addon for Raiders, especially for Raid leaders and officers.
• ElvUI -- Full User Interface replacement
  • A user interface designed around user-friendliness with extra features that are not included in the standard UI.
  • Alternatively, you can also use Shadowed Unit Frames (SUF) and an action bar addon of your choice or of course the stock UI.
• BigWigs -- Generic Boss Mod
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific Raid encounter.
• WeakAuras -- Jack of all trades
  • WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use.
• Plater -- Advanced Nameplates
  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings, out of the box debuff tracking, threat coloring, and support for scripting similar to WeakAuras and wago.io + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• Details -- In-depth Damage Meter
  • Most powerful, reliable, handsome, damage meter.

• Warlock
  • Drain Life damage increased by 300%.
  • Demonology
    • Developers' notes: In Undermine(d), the duration of Doom is now reduced for each Soul Shard spent on Hand of Gul'dan. Our goal with this change is to provide more control over when Doom explodes since its application is dependent on randomly receiving a Demonic Core. In addition, Doom Eternal wasn’t attractive enough to warrant a talent point but still felt missed as it made Doom feel incomplete since its duration reduction wasn’t maximized. Considering this, we’ve redesigned Doom Eternal to increase the uptime of Doom and provide a slight nudge to the Demonic Core economy.
    • Doom has been updated – Consuming a Demonic Core no longer reduces the duration of Doom. The duration of Doom is now reduced by 1 second per Soul Shard spent on Hand of Gul'dan.
    • Doom Eternal has been redesigned – When Doom expires, you have a 30% chance to generate a Demonic Core.
    • Demonic Calling now has a 20% chance to make your next Call Dreadstalkers cost 2 fewer Soul Shards and have no cast time (was 10%).

• Warlock
  • Diabolist
    • The cycle of Diabolic Ritual is now reset when entering an arena, entering a battleground, starting a raid encounter, or starting a Mythic+ dungeon.
    • Overlord will now use an alternative attack if there are no available paths for charging. There should be no difference in throughput between the alternative attack and his current attack.
  • Demonology
    • Dreadstalkers now have a 100% chance to generate a Demonic Core (was 50%).
    • Grimoire: Felguard damage is now increased by 125% (was 60%).
    • Hand of Gul’dan damage increased by 25%.
    • Call Dreadstalkers damage increased by 20%.

• Warlock
  • Demon Skin now creates an absorb for 0.12/0.24% maximum health (was 0.2/0.4%) and may stack up to 5/10% of your maximum health (was 8/15%).
  • Fixed an issue where Lifeblood was giving Leech higher than the intended amount.
  • Demonology
    • Wild Imp damage increased by 15%.
    • Demonbolt damage increased by 55%.
    • Demonic Core now has a 50% chance to grant a Demonic Core when your summoned Call Dreadstalkers fade away (was 35%).
    • Fixed an issue where Shadowtouched did not benefit Felseeker, Implosion, Gloom Slash, or Guillotine.
    • Fixed an issue where Demonic Brutality would not increase the critical strike damage of your demons.
    • Fixed an issue where Impending Doom would not summon a Wild Imp when Doom expires.

• Warlock
  • All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated.
  • New Talent: Pact of Gluttony – Healthstones you conjure for yourself are now Demonic Healthstones and can be used multiple times in combat. Demonic Healthstones cannot be traded.
  • New Talent: Swift Artifice – Reduces the cast time of Soulstone and Create Healthstone by 50%.
  • New Talent: Demonic Tactics – Increases melee and spell critical strike chance for you and your summoned demon by 2%.
  • Fel Pact has been redesigned – Fel Domination cooldown is reduced by 60 seconds and is now a 1-point talent (was 2).
  • Fiendish Stride has been redesigned – Reduces the damage dealt by Burning Rush by 10%. Burning Rush increases your movement speed by an additional 20%. Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
  • Soul Leech is now a talent (was learned at level 10).
  • Mortal Coil has a new visual effect.
  • Soul Conduit now a 1-point talent.
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Grimoire of Synergy
    • Inquisitor's Gaze
    • Summon Soulkeeper
    • Profane Bargain
  • Demonology
    • New Talent: Shadowcaster – Increases the damage of Hand of Gul’dan by 20% and Demonbolt by 10%.
    • New Talent: Pact of the Ered’ruin – When Doom expires, you have a chance to summon a Doomguard that casts 5 Doom Bolts before departing. Each Doom Bolt deals Shadow damage.
    • New Talent: Mark of Shatug – Your Summon Vilefiend becomes Summon Gloomhound and learns the following ability: Gloom Slash – Tooth and claw are drenched in malignant shadow magic, causing the Gloomhound’s melee attacks to deal Shadow damage over 6 seconds. If this effect is reapplied, any remaining damage will be added to the new Gloom Slash.
    • New Talent: Flametouched – Increases the attack speed of your Dreadstalkers by 20% and their critical strike chance by 15%.
    • New Talent: Rune of Shadows – Increases all damage done by your pet by 4%. Reduces the cast time of Shadow Bolt by 25% and increases its damage by 40%.
    • New Talent: Demonic Brutality – Critical strikes from your spells and your demons deal 4% increased damage.
    • New Talent: Fiendish Prowess – Increases the attack speed of your primary demon by 25%.
    • New Talent: Improved Demonic Tactics – Increases your primary Felguard’s critical strike chance equal to 30% of your critical strike chance.
    • New Talent: Mark of F’harg – Your Summon Vilefiend becomes Summon Charhound and learns the following ability: Infernal Presence – Cloaked in the ever-burning flames of the abyss, dealing Fire damage to enemies within 10 yards every 1 second.
    • New Talent: Shadowtouched – Wicked Maw causes the target to take 20% additional Shadow damage from your demons.
    • New Talent: Foul Mouth – Increases Vilefiend damage by 20% and your Vilefiend’s Bile Spit now applies Wicked Maw.
    • New Talent: The Houndmaster’s Gambit – Your Dreadstalkers deal 50% increased damage while your Vilefiend is active.
    • New Talent: Blood Invocation – Power Siphon increases the damage of Demonbolt by an additional 25%.
    • New Talent: Fiendish Oblation – Damage dealt by Grimoire: Felguard is increased by an additional 10% and you gain a Demonic Core when Grimoire: Felguard ends.
    • New Talent: Doom Eternal – Demonic Cores reduce the duration of Doom by an additional 2 seconds.
    • New Talent: Impending Doom – Increases the damage of Doom by 30% and Doom summons 1 Wild Imp when it expires.
    • Doom is now passive and has been redesigned – When Demonbolt consumes a Demonic Core it inflicts impending doom upon the target, dealing Shadow damage to enemies within 10 yards of its target after 20 seconds. Damage is reduced beyond 8 targets. Consuming a Demonic Core reduces the duration of Doom by 2 seconds.
    • Fel Invocation has been redesigned – Soul Strike deals 20% increased damage and generates a Soul Shard.
    • You now have a 35% chance to generate a Demonic Core from your summoned Dreadstalkers when they fade (was 100% chance).
    • Summon Vilefiend cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 45 seconds).
    • Summon Demonic Tyrant cooldown reduced to 1 minute (was 1 minute and 30 seconds).
    • Your Felguard now charges its target when using Soul Strike.
    • Houndmaster’s Stratagem has been renamed to Wicked Maw and its icon has been updated.
    • Dread Calling and Grimoire: Felguard icons have been updated.
    • Dragonflight Season 4 class set bonuses have been updated to the Dragonflight Season 1 class set bonuses:
      • 2 Set Bonus – Demonbolt and Felstorm damage increased by 20%.
      • 4 Set Bonus – Demonbolt has a chance to make your next Hand of Gul'dan instant and deal 150% increased damage.
      • Developer's note: In The War Within pre-patch we had several season 4 class sets that were made into spec talents. In order to prevent any oddities we are updating those select few class sets with earlier tier sets from Dragonflight to prevent any overlap or potential bugs.
    • The following talents are now 1 point:
      • Imp Gang Boss
      • Umbral Blaze
      • Pact of the Imp Mother
      • Dread Calling
      • Demonic Brutality
      • Flametouched
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Demonic Knowledge
      • Nether Portal
      • Ner’zhul’s Volition
      • Gul’dan’s Ambition
      • Stolen Power
      • Heavy-Handed
      • Fiendish Prowess
      • Shadow’s Bite
      • Infernal Command
      • Fel and Steel
      • Shadowcaster
      • Malefic Impact
      • Cavitation
      • Grand Warlock’s Design

A: Because your Felguard is already casting Felstorm. Check out the Deep Dive section for more info on this topic.