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LEVELING GUIDE

WoW Forever Demonology Warlock Leveling Guide

Demonology Warlocks pour their talents into the pet while they DoT enemies and finish with a wand. The level 10 holds threat well enough to tank several dotted enemies, and the level 20 is the highest-damage pet. , taken at the same level, makes her even stronger.

Recommended talents

Level 20 · Demonology0/11/0

Recommended professions

  • Tailoring
    Covers most of your cloth gear up to 20. Its camp Spirit feeds , and with that mana reaches your pet too.
  • Enchanting
    Lets you make the level 5 and level 13 wands yourself. Demonology has no talents to make worthwhile before 20, so the wand is your filler.

ROUTELevel-by-level route

  1. 5

    Levels 1–5

    DoTs and your first wand

    • Sell your starting gear and food to a vendor; that covers at level 1 (10 copper).
    • The deals little damage and runs out of mana quickly, so don't lean on it.
    • From level 4, open with and let your DoTs do the work.
    • At 5, buy and equip a . Wands scale with spell power and cost no mana.

    New abilities

  2. 9

    Levels 6–9

    DoT, wand, save mana

    • The level 6 scales with Spirit and returns a lot of mana, but costs a lot of health. Use it only when your health is high.
    • Once you have at 8, apply your DoTs and finish with the wand.
    • Don't clip DoTs or put them on enemies that are about to die. It wastes mana and adds drinking time.
    • can pull extra enemies, so use it carefully.

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (6)

  3. 12

    Levels 10–12

    Voidwalker and Unholy Power

    • At 10, do the class quest for right away. It holds threat well enough to tank several dotted enemies.
    • Put five points into from 10 to 14 for 10% more pet damage.
    • A kill landed with the level 10 always gives a soul shard. Keep your shards for summoning and soulstones topped up this way.
    • Craft and with Tailoring. uses a pattern bought with Merchant's Favor and boosts Shadow damage only.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 10–123/5

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (10) · (10) · (12) · (12)

  4. 16

    Levels 13–16

    Fel Vitality and first dungeons

    • Switch to at level 13. You make it yourself with Enchanting.
    • Put three points into from 15 to 17. Your pet's health and mana and your own maximum mana grow by 15%.
    • The level 14 brings back an enemy that sent the wrong way.
    • From 13 run The Hall of Thanes and Ragefire Chasm, and from 16 The Deadmines, for weapons and robes.
    • Craft and with Tailoring, plus and if you have the patterns.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 13–145/5
    • Lv 15–162/3

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (14) · (16)

    Dungeons for this range

  5. 19

    Levels 17–19

    Demonic Energies and dungeon gear

    • Put two points into at 18 and 19. Your pet heals for 15% of your spell damage and gets as much mana as you gain from .
    • The Voidwalker's hold on threat dips a little until it learns rank 2 of Torment at 20.
    • Wailing Caverns (17), Shadowfang Keep (18) and Ruins of Lordaeron open up. Pick up their quests first; many reward wands and staves.
    • Put and a curse on every boss. In melee-heavy groups use .
    • At 18, put on the healer before pulls. It won't stop a wipe, but recovery is much faster.
    • Craft and with Tailoring, then upgrade to at 19.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 173/3
    • Lv 18–192/2

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (18)

    Dungeons for this range

  6. 20

    Level 20

    Succubus and Improved Sayaad

    • Do the class quest for (or ). It's the highest-damage pet and holds threat on its own; switch to the Voidwalker if you need more threat.
    • Your level 20 talent is , the strongest per point; it raises your Succubus' or Incubus' damage.
    • , learned at 20, costs you your pet's damage and isn't worth it.
    • Meeting stones don't summon, so is the only summon. Keep two soul shards spare.
    • In caster-heavy groups use .
    • Farm Shadowfang Keep, Wailing Caverns, The Deadmines and Ruins of Lordaeron for the target gear below. Tailoring can make , but its materials are hard to get.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 201/3
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    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (20) · (20) · (20)

ROTATIONHow to fight

  1. 1Send in your Succubus first.
  2. 2 — lowest upfront damage, so the least threat, and it needs time to build up.
  3. 3
  4. 4 — its initial hit causes direct threat, so cast it last.
  5. 5Finish with your wand. At 20 you don't have the talents to make worth casting.
  6. 6When you are short on soul shards, land the killing blow with .

GEARLevel-20 target gear

Dungeon drops, quest rewards and crafted items worth chasing at level 20 for this spec, by slot, best stats for the spec first.

Head

Neck

  • BestQuest
    Quest "Friend of the Library"

Shoulder

Back

Chest

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

  • BestCraftLv 20
    Made with Tailoring
    Materials are hard to get; otherwise use .

Finger

Trinket

Two-Hand

Main Hand

Held In Off-hand

Ranged

CLASS QUESTSClass quests

  • Level 10 — Voidwalker

    Trainer → the warlock in your capital → fetch an item → summon and defeat a Voidwalker at the circle to learn . Do it as soon as you get it.

  • Level 20 — Succubus / Incubus

    Same pattern: fetch an item, then defeat the demon at the circle to learn . has its own separate chain. The reward is .
    • Class quest

  • Orb of Soran'ruk

    A neutral quest picked up in the Barrens. Collect 3 fragments deep in Blackfathom Deeps and 1 large fragment in Shadowfang Keep, then choose the orb or the staff. It takes a deep push into Blackfathom Deeps, which is hard at 20.

CAMPINGCamping

  • A Tailoring camp gives Spirit, which feeds .
  • With , mana also goes to your pet, so the Spirit camp pays off even more.
  • An Enchanting camp gives all stats and armor; an Alchemy camp gives mana per 5 seconds.