Destruction Warlock Gear and Best in Slot - Shadowlands 9.0.5

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Recommended Gear

What is the BiS Destruction Warlock gear?

With many different sources of gearing and loot scarcity in Shadowlands, targeting your absolute Best in Slot gear isn't entirely realistic; instead, we've created a Best in Slot list from the ideal Destruction Warlock raid drops found in Shadowlands, from Mythic Dungeons, to help you decide what to prioritize.

While raid drops are generally the most reliable way of getting high item level gear, many other items can be just as good if not better, so you should reference the stat priorities listed on the stats page and our Raidbots guide to help determine your own BiS gear based on what is available to you.

Castle Nathria Best in Slot Gear for Destruction Warlocks

Slot	Name	Boss
Helm	Copricapo Preferito del Confidente	Dama Inerva Venascura
Neck	Talismano dell'Inverno Eterno	Altimor il Predatore
Shoulders	Scialle del Penitente	Sire Denathrius
Cloak	Emblema del Generale Legionario	Generale Kaal
Chest	Vesti del Commando Maledetto	Generale Kaal
Bracers	Manette delle Conseguenze Tetre	Altimor il Predatore
Gloves	Mezziguanti Incredibilmente Grandi	Picchiapoltiglia
Belt	Fascia Avvolta nell'Ombra	Ingegnere Xy'mox
Legs	Calzoni del Costume da Cortigiano	Castellano Niklaus
Boots	Pianelle dell'Eretico Dimenticato	Alagrigia
Ring	Anello con Sigillo Regale di Sire Denathrius	Sire Denathrius
Ring	Anello Prezioso del Ritualista	Dama Inerva Venascura
Main Hand	Sferetta d'Animum Abominevole	Sire Denathrius
Off-Hand	Perla d'Animum Taumaturgica	Generale Kaal
2H	Sferetta d'Animum Abominevole	Sire Denathrius

Best in Slot Mythic+ Gear for Destruction Warlock

Slot	Name	Boss	Zone
Helm	Maschera del Medico Degenerato	Dottor Skifus	Piagafunesta
Neck	Pendente Macchiato di Peccato	Halkias	Sale della Redenzione
Shoulders	Coprispalle del Rianimatore	Amarth	Scia Necrotica
Cloak	Drappo delle Lealtà Corrotte	Devos	Guglie dell'Ascensione
Chest	Veste del Requiem Sinistro	Devos	Guglie dell'Ascensione
Bracers	Bracciali Leggeri del Legamorte	Ingra Maloch	Nebbie di Tirna Falcis
Gloves	Guanti del Folletto Dispettoso	Evocanebbie	Nebbie di Tirna Falcis
Belt	Fascione Bieco di Kin-Tara	Azules	Guglie dell'Ascensione
Legs	Sarong Intessuto di Maledizioni di Mueh'zala	Mueh'zala	Aldilà
Boots	Pianelle della Stazione Alleggerita	Ciambellano Supremo	Sale della Redenzione
Ring	Anello con Sigillo del Dio della Morte	Mueh'zala	Aldilà
Ring	Anello con Sigillo Smarrito di Cucicarne	Piagaossa	Scia Necrotica
Main Hand	Coltello del Carnefice	Xav l'Immortale	Teatro del Dolore
Off-Hand	Promessa del Calcamorte	Mordretha, l'Imperatrice Eterna	Teatro del Dolore
Staff	Ferula di Nathria	Ciambellano Supremo	Sale della Redenzione
Trinket	Dispositivo Quantico Imperscrutabile	Fornitrice Xy'exa	Aldilà
Trinket	Servan Svincolato	Ingra Maloch	Nebbie di Tirna Falcis

Noteworthy mentions when it comes to trinkets:
Gabbia dell'Animum Traboccante We scale very well off of Critical Strike due to the nature of our Dardo del Caos. The cooldown fits decently with the cooldown on Evocazione: Infernale. But if you're playing Sigillo di Wilfred dell'Evocazione Superiore this isn't very desirable.
Fronda del Risvegliatore can also have some use if you are able to get it at a competitive item level.

Castle Nathria Weapons

In the Castle Nathria raids there's a new system for weapon drops. Rather than the item itself dropping, you recieve a token you then can use to purchase a weapon. These are the tokens and their sources:

Weapons

Item	Slot	Class	Source
Sferetta d'Animum Abominevole	Main Hand	Death Knight, Warlock, Demon Hunter	Kael'thas Solealto
Sferetta d'Animum Abominevole	Main Hand	Death Knight, Warlock, Demon Hunter	Sire Denathrius
Perla d'Animum Taumaturgica	Off-hand	Shaman, Mage, Warlock, Druid	Dama Inerva Venascura
Perla d'Animum Taumaturgica	Off-hand	Shaman, Mage, Warlock, Druid	Generale Kaal

Depending on what items you get you will be able to combine any of these tokens for a weapon setup. The easiest is probably to get a two-handed staff. The stats you seek will depend on your character's stat weights. I always recommend simming your character using Raidbots in order to find your own stat weights.

Trinkets

Trinket	General Ranking	Source
Rubino del Liberanime	Great	Teatro del Dolore
Innario del Cabalista	Great	Sire Denathrius
Dispositivo Quantico Imperscrutabile	Great (If you can get it to always provide stats)	Aldilà
Fregio dell'Alacrità del Gladiatore Peccatore	Great	PvP
Ordigno Empireo	Good	Guglie dell'Ascensione
Borsa dei Servitori Sbagliati	Good	Scia Necrotica
Distintivo della Ferocia del Gladiatore Peccatore	Good	PvP
Glifo dell'Assimilazione	Good	Ingegnere Xy'mox
Spartito Macabro	Decent	Baronessa Frieda
Ricettacolo del Fuoco del Terrore	Decent	Sire Denathrius
Brucianima	Decent	Kael'thas Solealto
Servan Svincolato	Decent	Nebbie di Tirna Falcis
Melma Infinitamente Divisibile	Decent	Piagafunesta
Ametista di Sanguesolare	Decent	Sale della Redenzione
Mazzo della Putrescenza di Lunacupa	Decent	Crafting
Gabbia dell'Animum Traboccante	Decent	Profondità Sanguigne

Best Items to Upgrade with Valor Points in Shadowlands

Punti Valore Points is a returning currency brought back with Patch 9.0.5. With this new currency, players are able to upgrade items from Mythic+ Dungeon, either from running Mythic Keystones or from the Great Vault, up to item level 220. Similarly to Punti Conquista, Valor has a cap that is increased every week during the Season.

You can obtain Valor by completing Mythic+ dungeons or completing daily callings. You can learn more about Valor in our in-depth guide.

Earning and Spending Valor Points
When chosing to upgrade your items with valor points my advice would be to prioritize trinkets, then weapons and then offpieces. Trinkets tend to have much more value on your total damage output, same goes for weapons.

Slot	Item	Source	Notes
Trinkets	Dispositivo Quantico Imperscrutabile	Aldilà	This trinket is a bit of a gamble. The alternative effects this can have has the potential to lower its usefulness significantly. That being said, the massive amount of stats along on a 3-minute cooldown paired up with your Evocazione: Infernale is so incredibly strong, this trinket is a priority to upgrade.
Rubino del Liberanime	Teatro del Dolore	This has proven to be an underestimated trinket. The amount of critical strike you're able to gain through clever usage of this trinket is very high meaning this is a very valid option to upgrade. This trinket is especially good in a progression raiding scenario where you will want as much damage as possible once the boss is low.
Weapons	Ferula di Nathria	Sale della Redenzione	Stat-wise the strongest two-handed weapon for Destruction.
Lama Incantata di Amarth	Scia Necrotica	Stat-wise the strongest main hand weapon for Destruction.
Promessa del Calcamorte	Teatro del Dolore	Likely your best option for an offhand from dungeons.

Items to Prioritize in the Great Vault for Destruction Warlock in Shadowlands

I recommend always simulating the biggest upgrade you're able to get from your Great Vault. That being said, there are a few items worth picking up even though they may not be the highest simming items for you at that given time. Some examples are:

Dispositivo Quantico Imperscrutabile - Incredibly strong trinket option.
Rubino del Liberanime - Same as above, very strong option, and very useful in many types of gameplay.
Any type of weapon that is a big upgrade. Usually, weapons are harder to come by.

Best PvP Gear for Destruction Warlock in PvE

One of the most popular ways of gearing in Shadowlands is PvP. Unlike raiding and Mythic+, PvP provides players with a deterministic way of obtaining gear, making it more streamlined and less random than the other two high-end gearing options.

There are two main currencies for PvP gearing: Punti Conquista and Punti Onore. Punti Conquista is used exclusively to purchase the base items at ilvl 200, while Punti Onore is used to upgrade those base items to higher item levels based on your highest current rating in Rated PvP. Punti Conquista has a cap on how much you can obtain, similar to Punti Valore, which increased every week during the Season, while Punti Onore has no cap.

Learn more about PvP gearing in our in-depth guide, including ilvl brackets and item upgrade costs.

Conquest and PvP Gearing
There are a few items we can get through PvP worth mentioning when playing a Destruction Warlock. All PvP items have Versatility on them, which is not a bad stat for us, but it's certainly not our most desired stat.

Slot	Item	Notes
Trinkets	Fregio dell'Alacrità del Gladiatore Peccatore	A strong haste trinket with a consistent intellect proc, very strong for Destruction.
Weapons	Bastone del Gladiatore Peccatore	With PvP’s unique ability to offer a max of 233 item level weapons without defeating the end boss of a tier on Mythic, those weapons are always going to be worth acquiring if you can earn the rating. Below 226 ilvl, however, there are better itemized options from the Valor System and Heroic Sire Denathrius.
Bacchetta del Gladiatore Peccatore / Lira del Gladiatore Peccatore / Scettro del Gladiatore Peccatore	As with the Staff, Destruction's options for Main Hand and Off Hand weapons are better from Dungeons and Raids unless you have access to them at a high item level.

Best Legendary Items for Destruction Warlock

In Shadowlands, players are able to craft customizable Legendary Items. In order to craft these items, players must collect tradeskill materials and Cenere d'Anima from Torghast and bring them to the Runecarver.

Learn more about how to craft legendaries for your Destruction Warlock in our in-depth guide.

How to Craft Legendary ItemsDestruction Warlock Legendary Guide

Sources of Gear for Destruction Warlock in Shadowlands

There are many ways to gear in Shadowlands, each with its own item level range. Below we give a detailed list of possible sources of gear and their related item level.

In addition to the occasional weekend quests, reputation vendors, and other semi-unique sources of gear, the common repeatable sources of gear are:

Gear and Item Levels Available at Launch

Source	Item Level	Availability
World Quests	145+	Week 1
Profession Crafting	151-164	Week 1
Normal Dungeons	158	Week 1
PvP Honor Gear (1-3)	158-171	Week 1
Faction Reputation	164-200	Honored to Exalted
Heroic Dungeons	171	Week 1
PvP Honor Gear (4-5)	177-184	Week 2 (Renown 7)
Mythic Dungeons	184	Week 1
Legendary (Rank 1)	190	1250 Cenere d'Anima
Legendary (Rank 2)	210	2000 Cenere d'Anima

Gear and Item Levels Available with Season 1

Source	Item Level	Availability
LFR Castle Nathria	187-194	Season 1
PvP Honor Gear(6-7)	190-197	Season 1
Mythic+ (End of Dungeon)	187-210	Season 1
Normal Castle Nathria	200-207	Season 1
World Bosses	207	Season 1
Heroic Castle Nathria	213-220	Season 1
Legendary (Rank 3)	225	3200Cenere d'Anima
Mythic Castle Nathria	226-233	Season 1
Legendary (Rank 4)	235	5150 Cenere d'Anima
Great Vault	200-226	Season 1

Additionally, Mythic+ dungeons offer their own scaling rewards. Each completion awards gear from that dungeon upon completion, plus credit for your Greater Vault. The item level of your rewards in the great vault is based on your highest keys for the week.

Learn More About Great Vault Loot

Note that completing higher keys beyond +15 doesn't increase the item level of the rewards.

Keystone Level	End of Dungeon	Weekly Cache
Mythic 2	187	200
Mythic 3	190	203
Mythic 4	194	207
Mythic 5	194	210
Mythic 6	197	210
Mythic 7	200	213
Mythic 8	200	216
Mythic 9	200	216
Mythic 10	203	220
Mythic 11	203	220
Mythic 12	207	223
Mythic 13	207	223
Mythic 14	207	226
Mythic 15+	210	226

Numbers above are for Shadowlands Season 1

Finding Your Best Upgrades - Presenting the Droptimizer

The Droptimizer is a tool that uses current information from your character to calculate which bosses in a certain raid and in certain difficulty provide the largest immediate upgrades for you.

it uses the most recent information about your character and the latest theorycraft available to see how big of an upgrade is each piece of loot in a certain raid in a given difficulty.

It is the perfect tool to help you plan your bonus rolls, or check if you need loot from a certain boss or not.

Learn more about the Droptimizer in our in-depth review of the tool.

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Commento di ImperatorStone

Great guide.

Maybe I'm bad at searching but so far this is the most up to date guide for Destruction Warlocks in 6.2, it seems a lot of Warlocks are focusing on playing Affliction or Demonology. I have found quite a number of useful bit of information so thank you very much for your hard work.

Also in the guide selection page, Demonology and Destruction guides are both listed as Demonology Guide.

Regards,

Imperator

Commento di Amrie104

Imo Prydaz is a bad choice, sure it'll be good for prepatch but as soon as bfa hits it'll become redundant because the Heart of Azeroth will replace it immediately. It's not worth wasting the essences on since you won't be able to use it for leveling.

Commento di Emphatic83

is the talent really worth losing the raw stats by taking the soul ring? seems like harvester or lessons would be a better choice even insignia gives you much more raw stats for the same slot

Also I feel like you place secret way down the list for haste being our best stat, justification? seems like it should be top 5 at the very least def ahead of prydaz for sure lol

Commento di Xernes

Why there are no reputation gear in the pre raid bis list ?

Commento di DougFM

Top 2 stats, haste & mastery
#1 recommended trinket - works off crit.

See right there I have to question if this guy knows what he's talking about.

Destruction Warlock Gear and Best in Slot - Shadowlands 9.0.5

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