Destruction Warlock Raid Guide

Cataclysm -- Casts Cataclysm on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Cataclysm

Summon Infernal - Uses Summon Infernal on your cursor position without reticle. Can't be used while Channel Demonfire is being cast.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor, nochanneling: Channel Demonfire] Summon Infernal

Rain of Fire -- Casts Rain of Fire without confirmation click which can save you valuable time and increases your Rain of Fire casts per second.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Rain of Fire

Shadowfury -- Casts Shadowfury on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Shadowfury

Immolate -- Casts Immolate on your mouseover or target.

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

Havoc -- Casts Havoc on your mouseover target if it exists, isn't dead and is hostile, else Havoc is cast on your target.

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

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

Drain Life -- Uses Drain Life on your mouseover target or target.

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,exists] Drain Life;Drain Life

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

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

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]

Grimoire of Sacrifice & dismiss pet -- Casts Grimoire of Sacrifice if you specced into it. If you don't have Grimoire of Sacrifice talented it dismisses your pet instead.

showtooltip
/run if not IsSpellKnown(108503) then PetDismiss(); end
/cast Grimoire of Sacrifice

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

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

• 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
  • 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.
  • Destruction
    • Diabolist
      • Diabolic Ritual has been updated – Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, and Shadowburn grant Diabolic Ritual for 20 seconds. If Diabolic Ritual is already active, its duration is reduced by 1 second instead. When Diabolic Ritual expires you gain Demonic Art: Overlord,Demonic Art: Mother of Chaos or Demonic Art: Pit Lord, causing your next Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, or Shadowburn to summon an Overlord, Mother of Chaos, or Pit Lord that unleashes a devastating attack against your enemies.
      • Touch of Rancora has been updated – Demonic Art: Overlord,Demonic Art: Mother of Chaos or Demonic Art: Pit Lord increases the damage of your next Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, or Shadowburn by 100% and reduces its cast time by 50%. Chaos Bolt reduces the duration of Diabolic Ritual by 1 additional second.
        • Developer's note: We’re adjusting Diabolic Ritual to avoid a situation where constantly casting Rain of Fire, due to its instant cast time, provides the best output for Diabolist. To avoid adding to Diabolic Ritual's already lengthy tooltip, we’re adding functionality to Touch of Rancora to add further value to casting Chaos Bolt so that its cast time doesn’t hinder its usefulness to ain of Fire[/wow-spell], due to its instant cast time, provides the best output for Diabolist warlocks.

• 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.
    • Destruction
      • Chaos Bolt damage increased by 40%.
      • Shadowburn damage increased by 125%.
      • Conflagrate damage increased by 25%.
      • Incinerate damage decreased by 10%.
      • Soul Fire damage increased by 5%.
      • Channel Demonfire damage increased by 10%.
      • Channel Demonfire damage dealt to nearby enemies increased by 25%.
      • Summon Infernal damage increased by 10%.
      • Rain of Fire damage increased by 35%.
      • Pyrogenics now increases damage taken from your Fire spells by 3% (was 5%).
      • Ritual of Ruin now activates after spending 20 Soul Shards (was 15).
      • Avatar of Destruction now generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
      • Summon Infernal now generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
      • Fixed an issue where Power Overwhelming incorrectly gave 1% Mastery instead of 0.5% Mastery per stack.
      • Fixed an issue where 3 stacks of Power Overwhelming were granted when using Rain of Fire while talented into Inferno.
      • Fixed an issue where Rain of Fire could damage enemies through walls.

• 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 Healthstone and can be used multiple times in combat. Demonic Healthstone 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
  • Destruction
    • New Talent: Devastation – Increases the Critical Strike chance of your Destruction spells by 5%.
    • New Talent: Emberstorm – Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 2/4% and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 10/20%.
    • New Talent: Decimating Bolt – Hurl bolts of decimating magic at your target, dealing Shadow damage and increase the damage of your next 3 Incinerates by 40%. Decimating Bolt’s damage, and the bonus to Incinerate both increase as your target’s health decreases.
    • New Talent: Summoner's Embrace – Increases the damage dealt by your spells and your demon by 3%.
    • New Talent: Indiscriminate Flames – Backdraft increases the damage of your next Chaos Bolt by 5% or increases the critical strike chance of your next Incinerate or Soul Fire by 35%.
    • New Talent: Blistering Atrophy – Increases the damage of Shadowburn by 20%. Shadowburn always critically strikes a target that is at or below 30% health.
    • New Talent: Fiendish Cruelty – When Shadowburn fails to kill a target that is at or below 30% health, its cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds.
    • New Talent: Demonfire Mastery – Increases the damage of Channel Demonfire by 30% and it deals damage 35% faster.
    • New Talent: Improved Chaos Bolt – Increases the damage of Chaos Bolt by 10% and reduces its cast time by 0.5 seconds.
    • New Talent: Avatar of Destruction – Consuming Ritual of Ruin summons an Overfiend for 8 seconds. Overfiend generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 0.5 seconds and casts Chaos Bolt at its summoner’s target, dealing Chaos damage.
    • New Talent: Dimension Ripper – Incinerate has a chance to tear open a Dimensional Rift or recharge Dimensional Rift if learned.
    • New Talent: Flame Rift – Dimensional Rift can now summon a powerful Flame Rift.
    • New Talent: Lessons of Space-Time – While you have a Dimensional Rift open, all of your damage is increased by 5%.
    • New Talent: Unstable Rifts – Bolts from Dimensional Rift deal 25% of damage dealt to nearby enemies as Fire damage.
    • Ruin has been redesigned – Increases the Critical Strike damage of your Destruction spells by 5/10%.
    • Inferno has been redesigned – Rain of Fire damage is increased by 20% and its Soul Shard cost is reduced by 1.
    • Decimation has been redesigned – Your critical strikes have a chance to reset the cooldown of Soul Fire and reduce the cast time of your next Soul Fire by 80%.
    • Chaos Incarnate has been redesigned – Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, and Shadowburn always gain at least 70% of the maximum benefit from your Mastery: Chaotic Energies.
    • Scalding Flames has been redesigned – Increases the damage of Immolate by 25% and its duration by 3 seconds.
    • Chaos Bolt is now learned at level 10 (was a talent).
    • The cooldown of Summon Infernal is now 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
    • Raging Demonfire now extends Immolate by 0.5 seconds (was 0.2 seconds).
    • Chaos Bolts cast by Overfiend no longer gains modifiers active on its summoner.
    • The tooltip of Summon Overfiend has been updated – Generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 0.5 seconds and casts Chaos Bolt at 80% effectiveness at its summoner’s target.
    • The visual for casting Dimensional Rift has been updated.
    • The following talents are now 1 point:
      • Burn to Ashes
      • Master Ritualist
      • Power Overwhelming
      • Infernal Brand
      • Crashing Chaos
      • Ashen Remains
      • Eradication
      • Conflagration of Chaos
      • Ruin
      • Scalding Flames
      • Fire and Brimstone
      • Rolling Havoc
      • Raging Demonfire
      • Flashpoint
      • Emberstorm
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Avatar of Destruction
      • Chaosbringer
      • Pandemonium
      • Cry Havoc
      • Improved Immolate
      • Decimating Bolt
      • Grand Warlock's Design
      • Flame Rift
      • Lessons of Space-Time
      • Unstable Rifts
      • Infernal Brand

A: You aren't spacing your Chaos Bolts out correctly. Try to cast something in between each Chaos Bolt to maximze Eradication uptime.