PvE Demonology Warlock Pre-Raid & Best in Slot
bobodingo • Updated June 2, 2025
In this section we will be covering your Pre-Raid BiS gearset for reaching your maximum potential damage, and your BiS gearset for each phase. With each new phase released, this page will be consistently updated to reflect equipment available to you. For the sake of simplicity, I have disregarded gear obtained through PvP or Classic WoW raids since they won’t be run as often in Burning Crusade Classic.
Armor
- Head: Spellstrike Hood or Mana-Binders Cowl (50 Badges of Justice)
- Neck: Brooch of Heightened Potential or Hydra-fang Necklace
- Shoulders: Frozen Shadoweave Shoulders or Mana-Etched Spaulders or Spaulders of Oblivion
- Cloak: Sethekk Oracle Cloak or Shawl of Shifting Probabilities (25 Badges of Justice)
- Expensive Choice: Ancient Spellcloak of the Highborne
- Chest: Frozen Shadoweave Robe or Auchenai Anchorite’s Robe or Robe of the Crimson Order (If you need the Hit Rating)
- Bracer: Crimson Bracers of Gloom (If you need the Hit Rating) or Bracers of Havok
- Gloves: Gloves of the Deadwatcher or Manaspark Gloves
- Waist: Girdle of Ruination or Glyph-Lined Sash or Belt of Depravity
- Legs: Spellstrike Pants or Breeches of the Occultist
- Expensive Choice: Leggings of the Seventh Circle
- Feet: Frozen Shadoweave Boots or Sigil-Laced Boots
- Ring: Ashyen’s Gift or Band of Dominion
- Ring: Sparking Arcanite Ring or Ring of Cryptic Dreams
- Trinket: Scryer’s Bloodgem (Requires Revered with The Scryers – Great if you need the Hit Rating) or Starkiller’s Bauble (It has less Hit Rating, but it does provide 2.06% Spell Hit Chance)
- Trinket: Icon of the Silver Crescent (41 Badges of Justice)
- Held-in-Off-Hand: Lamp of Peaceful Radiance or Orb of the Soul-Eater (25 Badges of Justice) or Khadgar’s Knapsack (25 Badges of Justice)
Weapons
- One-Handed: Blade of the Archmage (Requires Exalted with Honor Hold – Alliance) or Stormcaller (Requires Exalted with Thrallmar – Horde) or Greatsword of Horrid Dreams
- Expensive Choices: Talon of the Tempest, Eternium Runed Blade, Blade of Wizardry
- Two-Handed: Terokk’s Shadowstaff or Warpstaff of Arcanum
- While I do not necessarily recommend choosing The Aldor, but if you do, you will have access to Auchenai Staff once you reach Revered status
- Ranged: Nether Core’s Control Rod (If you need the Hit Rating) or The Black Stalk
Seventyupgrades Links
Alliance – Seventyupgrades Link
Horde – Seventyupgrades Link
Armor
- Head: Spellstrike Hood (Would have the 2-piece set bonus for the chance to gain extra spell damage for a short time) or Voidheart Crown
- Voidheart Crown doesn’t have any Hit Rating by default, so if you chose this option we would have to find some additional Hit Rating (If you follow the first option for the other pieces, we would be at 15.77% Hit, leaving a need for 0.23% if we used Voidheart Crown)
- Neck: Brooch of Unquenchable Fury
- Shoulders: Voidheart Mantle or Frozen Shadoweave Shoulders
- Cloak: Brute Cloak of the Ogre-Magi or Ruby Drape of the Mysticant (If you need the Hit Rating)
- Expensive Choice: Ancient Spellcloak of the Highborne
- Chest: Voidheart Robe or Frozen Shadoweave Robe or Auchenai Anchorite’s Robe (If you need the Hit Rating)
- Bracer: Bracers of Havok or Crimson Bracers of Gloom or Bands of Nefarious Deeds
- Gloves: Handwraps of Flowing Thought or Soul-Eater’s Handwraps
- Expensive Choice: Anger-Spark Gloves
- Belt: Girdle of Ruination or Belt of Divine Inspiration
- Legs: Spellstrike Pants or Voidheart Leggings
- Boots: Boots of Foretelling or Ruby Slippers (Handy if you need the Hit Rating)
- Note: By equipping Frozen Shadoweave Boots (comparing to Boots of Foretelling)
- +31 Spell Damage / -120 Health / -225 Mana / -1.02% Crit Chance
- If gemmed correctly, Frozen Shadoweave Boots can grant you +3 Spell Hit Rating, but given our gearing, we don’t need that, so we’d only be missing out on the 28 Spell Damage (Gemmed according to the below link) while gaining 1.08% Crit Chance
- Note: By equipping Frozen Shadoweave Boots (comparing to Boots of Foretelling)
- Ring: Band of Crimson Fury
- Ring: Ashyen’s Gift
- Trinket: Scryer’s Bloodgem (Requires Revered with The Scryers – Great if you need the Hit Rating) or Starkiller’s Bauble (It has less Hit Rating, but it does provide 2.06% Spell Hit Chance)
- Trinket: Icon of the Silver Crescent (41 Badges of Justice)
- Held-in-Off-Hand: Jewel of Infinite Possibilities or Orb of the Soul-Eater or Khadgar’s Knapsack
Weapons
- One-Handed: Bloodmaw Magus-Blade or Nathrezim Mindblade
- Two-Handed: Staff of Infinite Mysteries or Terokk’s Shadowstaff
- Ranged: Tirisfal Wand of Ascendancy (If you need the Hit Rating) or Eredar Wand of Obliteration (If you have already reached the Hit Cap)
Alliance – Seventyupgrades Link
Horde – Seventyupgrades Link
Armor
- Head: Cowl of the Grand Engineer
- Note: Hood of the Corruptor can help you reach your set bonuses
- Neck: The Sun King’s Talisman or Brooch of Unquenchable Fury (If you need Hit Rating)
- Shoulders: Mantle of the Corruptor or Mantle of the Elven Kings
- Cloak: Ruby Drape of the Mysticant
- Note: Ancient Spellcloak of the Highborne is a great choice if you are lucky enough to receive the drop from Doom Lord Kazzak
- Chest: Vestments of the Sea-Witch or Robe of the Corruptor
- Wrist: Mindstorm Wristbands
- Hands: Soul-Eater’s Handwraps or Handwraps of Flowing Thought
- Note: The choice to prioritize these in this manner was that we reach the Hit Cap without using Handwraps of Flowing Thought
- Note: Anger-Spark Gloves are a great choice, if you are lucky enough to receive them from Doomwalker
- Waist: Belt of Blasting, Cord of Screaming Terrors or Girdle of Ruination
- Legs: Leggings of the Corruptor
- Note: While difficult to come across, Leggings of the Seventh Circle are of similar value
- Feet: Boots of Blasting, Boots of the Shifting Nightmare or Frozen Shadoweave Boots
- Ring: Ring of Endless Coils
- Ring: Ring of Recurrence
- Note: If you still need Hit Rating, you can use Band of Crimson Fury, Ashyen’s Gift or Sparking Arcanite Ring
- Trinket: Dark Iron Smoking Pipe (Drops from Brewfest – Coren Direbrew)
- Note: While casters can achieve a 99% chance to hit with their spells, there is always going to be a 1% chance to miss, making Eye of Magtheridon a viable selection
- Trinket: Icon of the Silver Crescent
- Note: Some trinkets that provide Spell Hit Rating are: Scryer’s Bloodgem, Starkiller’s Bauble, and Arcanist’s Stone
Weapons
- One-Handed: Fang of the Leviathan or Bloodmaw Magus-Blade
- Note: If you are lucky enough to receive Talon of the Tempest, it’s the ideal choice
- Off Hand: Jewel of Infinite Possibilities or Fathomstone (Depending on if you need the Hit Rating)
- Two-Handed: The Nexus Key or Staff of Infinite Mysteries
- Ranged: Wand of the Forgotten Star
- Head – Hood of the Malefic
- Neck – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/33281
- Shoulders – Mantle of the Malefic
- Cape – Nethervoid Cloak
- Chest – Vestments of the Sea-Witch
- Bracers – Bracers of Nimble Thought
- Gloves – Gloves of the Malefic
- Belt – Belt of Blasting
- Legs – Leggings of the Malefic
- Boots – Slippers of the Seacaller
- Ring 1 –https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/33497
- Ring 2 – Ring of Ancient Knowledge
- Trinket 1 – The Skull of Gul‘dan
- Trinket 2 – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/33829
- Wand – Wand of the Forgotten Star
70 upgrade link: https://seventyupgrades.com/character/94bzwNRgY3HGS6Gg6MvatA/set/rMpYW8UQGKXKsA2ud1XnSg
Weapons
- Main hand – Tempest of Chaos
- Offhand – Chronicle of Dark Secrets
Two hands – Zhar‘doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer
BiS Gear
- Head – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34340
- Neck – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34359 (JC) or https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34204
- Shoulders – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/31054
- Cape – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34242
- Chest – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34364
- Bracers – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34436
- Gloves – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34344 +
- Belt – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34541
- Legs – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34181
- Boots – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34564
- Ring 1 – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34230
- Ring 2 – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34362
- Trinket 1 – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/32483
- Trinket 2 – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34429
- Wand – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34347
Weapons
- Main hand – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34336
- Offhand – https://wowclassicdb.com/tbc/item/34179
Nice guide! Thanks for your work!