

Improved Healthstone



Major Healthstone, the version of healthstone after the effects of this talent is incredibly useful. Particularly because this item does not share a cooldown with potions. Tanks are able to use healthstones and Major Healing Potion simultaneously if their health dips dangerously low. Moreover, dps and healers are able to restore health with healthstones while using dps or mana increasing potions.





Improved Imp



Although this talent is useful, it is only actually included in the "Master Demonologist" spec. Which is not used often. Out of the other two viable raiding specs, only "Shadow Mastery/Ruin" uses an imp as a pet. However, this talent build has is unable to use any points to put into improved imp. If they do, they would miss out on either Shadow Mastery or Ruin.





Demonic Embrace



This talent is significantly valuable. First, let us look at the trade off this talent offers. For every 1% spirit lost the warlock player will gain 3% stamina. Not only is this a three-to-one trade, but warlocks use health as a resource! Furthermore, out of all of the spell casting classes, warlock has the worst scaling with spirit. Demonic Embrace is a strong choice for any build that focuses on the Demonology tree.





Improved Health Funnel



Warlocks in Classic WoW will never need to use this talent. The only three demons a warlock player typically would use in any given raid is either Imp, Voidwalker, or Succubus. The voidwalker is typically used for the shield it provides with its ability Sacrifice and the succubus is used along with Demonic Sacrifice. In either circumstance, the demon is not actually used for its combative prowess. The only one of the three demons mentioned that is used for its damage output is the imp and any time the imp is approaching a dangerous situation, the warlock player can simply use Phase Shift to avoid taking damage rather than trying to heal the pet through the damage it takes.





Improved Voidwalker



Improved voidwalker is a deceptively good talent. Players will rarely ever use voidwalker to tank anything. Making the improvement to torment, consume shadows, and suffering all useless. However, improving Sacrifice by 30% increases the bubble you receive by 571 damage! This shield can be used before a pull in situations where the warlock will be taking unavoidable damage. Not only does this improved shield help you survive, but also grants the warlock more time to cast without experience pushback on their spells!





Fel Intellect



Out of the two talent builds that delve into the demonology tree (Demonic Sacrifice/Ruin and Master Demonologist/Ruin) only one actively has their demon out and that is the Master Demonologist/Ruin. For that talent build, this talent becomes quite useful since the primary pet used in the build is the Imp, which is highly dependant on its mana.





Improved Succubus



Improving the effectiveness of your Succubus' abilities is never necessary in Classic raiding. One could make the arguement that the bonus from using a succubus along with Master Demonologist could be good. However, the succubus is a fragile demon that will easily die under most raid scenarios. Especially since it has to enter melee range to be able to attack.





Fel Domination



This talent is particularly usefull for warlocks aiming for the "Demonic Sacrifice/Ruin" build, allowing them to perform the "FelDom trick." What this entails is being able to summon a voidwalker normally before engaging any boss encounter that has unavoidable and consistent damage (such as Vaelastrasz the Corrupt and Firemaw). As your main tank is about to pull the boss the warlock player will use the voidwalker's Sacrifice. Immidiatly following, use Fel Domination to instantly summon a succubus to use Demonic Sacrifice on. This way the warlock player has their demonic sacrifice buff that should always be up and have a shield all without missing a single moment of the boss encounter!





Fel Stamina



Fel stamina, unlike Fel Intellect, is not a talent used for Classic warlock raiding. The stamina gained through this ability is not significant enough to allow your demon tanking to be noticably more impactful. Furthermore, the only demon commonly used actively in classic raids is the imp, which can use its Phase Shift to avoid damage.





Master Summoner



Master Summoner is needed to be able to do the "Fel Dom" trick previously mentioned. This talent, along side Fel Domination, allows the warlock player to summon a demon in just 0.5 seconds!





Unholy Power



Although this talent directly increases the damage of your non-Imp demons, it is actually not that useful. The only two viable raiding talent builds that actively use pets will primarily be using the imp. However, this talent is mandatory to get if the player is planning to spec into Master Demonologist.





Improved Enslave Demon



Unfortunately in Classic WoW warlocks are unable to bring enslaved demons from the open world into any given raid. When the player tries to, the demon will simply stay outside of the instance portal. Warlocks could techinically enslave a demon within a raid, but demons within raids are typically level 63 which is over the level cap of Enslave Demon.





Demonic Sacrifice



This talent is a must for the "Demonic Sacrifice/Ruin" raiding build. Hence why the build is named after it! Typically, raiding warlocks will want demonic sacrifice their succubus granting them 15% increased shadow damage! The succubus is not the only demon that utilizes the demonic sacrifice talent though. In situations where the warlock is looking to primarily AoE with either Hellfire or Rain of Fire, then he/she will need to demonic sacrifice their imp for 15% increased fire damage.





Improved Firestone



Firestones are not too useful in Classic WoW since they take up the warlock's offhand slot and there are other choices for the slot with better stats (such asTome of Fiery Arcana). Therefore, this talent is not optimal to put points into.





Master Demonologist



Master Demonologist is only viable in the pve spec "Master Demonologist/Ruin", hence why it is named after the talent! The primary reason anyone would go this far down in the demonology tree in pve is to reach this talent so that they could use the imp to reduce threat reduction. However, there are some niche areas that will allow players following this spec to swap to succubus for added damage if they feel that their pet will be able to live through the boss encounter and their threat will not be an issue.





Soul Link



Soul link is an extremely menacing ability. However, it is not used in raiding since anyone going far enough in the demonology tree to reach this ability will miss out on too many crucial other dps increasing talents. Even though it is not so viable in pve, it is one of the absolute strongest abilities to have for pvp!

