Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants for Destruction Warlocks in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Destruction Warlock PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Destruction Warlocks in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Destruction Warlock Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Destruction Warlock Stat Priority

Versatility (25%) > Haste > Mastery > Critical Strike

Versatility will be our most important stat. You want to focus on getting as much of it as you can, up to at least 25%. This will happen automatically through PvP gearing, as most of the items you will end up using will have Versatility on them.

Beyond this stat, focus on obtaining as much Haste as you can possibly get your hands on. This makes your globals faster, reduces cast time on spells, which helps wonders with landing CC, and makes your dot effects tick faster. You receive more Soul Shards throughout a game, and can throw out some deadly Soul Fire or Chaos Bolt casts quicker during your Mortal Coil burst windows.

Followed by this, you still want to get a bit of Mastery. This is to enhance your throughput on all your damaging spells.

And lastly, Critical Strike doesn’t synergize well with our toolkit, meaning we should avoid this stat at all costs.

BiS Destruction Warlock PvP Gear

Main Pieces

Head: Forged Gladiator’s Silk Guise or Algari Competitor’s Cloth Hood with Haste / Versatility
Shoulders: Forged Gladiator’s Silk Mantle
Chest: Hexflame Coven’s Ritual Harness
Gloves: Forged Gladiator’s Silk Gloves
Legs: Hexflame Coven’s Leggings

Off-Pieces

Back: Forged Gladiator’s Drape
Belt: Forged Gladiator’s Silk Cord or Algari Competitor’s Cloth Sash with Haste / Versatility
Bracers: Forged Gladiator’s Silk Armbands or Algari Competitor’s Cloth Bands with Haste / Versatility
Boots: Algari Competitor’s Cloth Treads with Haste / Versatility

Jewelry

Neck: Forged Gladiator’s Necklace or Algari Competitor’s Amulet with Haste / Versatility
Ring 1: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Haste / Versatility
Ring 2: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Haste / Versatility or Forged Gladiator’s Ring if you want to increase your survivability.

Weapons

2-Hander Weapon:

Main Hand: Forged Gladiator’s Staff or Algari Competitor’s Staff with Haste / Versatility

1-Hander Weapons:

Main Hand: Algari Competitor’s Skewer
Off Hand: Algari Competitor’s Lamp

Regardless of which selection of weapons you choose, both are valuable to pick up and is based around your own preference.

Trinkets

Trinket 1: Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity
Trinket 2: Forged Gladiator’s Medallion

When it comes to trinkets, we are pairing up with Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity in almost every game. This adds some static Haste that will benefit us in our stat priority, while occasionally proccing for a considerable boost to our primary stat.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

As an alternative, you can choose Forged Gladiator’s Emblem instead of Insignia for some temporary HP boost in cases where you are guaranteed to be the kill target. This can more promising into setup based matchups, such as RMP or Jungle Cleave, and you can use this trinket before pressing Dark Pact for a bigger absorb.

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Best Destruction Warlock Embellishments

Item 1: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on Algari Competitor’s Greatsword with Versatility / Mastery
Item 2: Writhing Armor Banding on any crafted armor piece.

Alternative Embellishments:

x2 Elemental Focusing Lens on any crafted slot.

The Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Writhing Armor Banding combination provides us with a constant flow of secondary stats, and is quite valuable when we proc Versatility since our spec is relatively squishy in the current meta.

Alternatively, if you would rather opt for our conquest weapon instead of a crafted one, we recommend using the Elemental Focusing Lens embellishment. This provides us with a solid amount of consistent damage, and is only effective as long as you have at least 1 gem equipped.

This embellishment occasionally deals damage from a specific school of magic based on the gem you equip. Keep in mind that the damage from this embellishment can’t be buffed by cooldowns, talents, or any damage bonuses from school types.

Best Destruction Warlock Gems

Core Gems: Cognitive Bloodstone + Versatile Emerald
Alternative Gems: Quick Sapphire

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

As Versatility and Haste are your best secondary stats, you will want to both gem and enchant it wherever possible. For your new unique PvP-specific gem, we highly recommend the Cognitive Bloodstone, which acts almost identical to the Precognition Embellishment from Dragonflight.

For all gem slots, we will use either Versatile Emerald or Quick Sapphire, depending on your preference. Both of these perfectly match our stat priority, but Quick Sapphire can be a potential pick if you want to increase your character’s survivability.