Demonology Warlock

Soul Harvester

Reliable ⓘPatched ⓘ

With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Demonology Warlock (Soul Harvester) deals 86% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 11 of 51) and 87% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 12 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 4.6% more than SimulationCraft's.

At a glance

4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept

Fight	Manual DPS	SBA + cooldown	SBA alone	Assisted Highlight	Rank (SBA + cooldown)
M+ dungeon	263,084	86.3%−13.73%	55.7%−44.33%	100.1%+0.05%	11 of 51
Raid boss	235,880	87.1%−12.89%	58.8%−41.24%	99.0%−0.99%	12 of 51

Against real +15 players

Too few real Soul Harvester runs on the standard routes to compare (1). See the specs that have enough

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What the assistant costs

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

88%of manual DPS with SBA + cooldown. SBA alone reaches 55%, Assisted Highlight 100%.

Manual270.5Kreference
SBA + cooldown237.4K88% of manual
SBA alone147.8K55% of manual
Assisted Highlight270.6K100% of manual

Patched: SimulationCraft needs a fix to play Blizzard's list for this spec.Patch 0006-warlock-sba-drain-soul-malefic-grasp-and-imp-lord. In the game Shadow Bolt becomes Drain Soul when talented, and Malefic Grasp while Darkglare is out; SimulationCraft never cast them. The patch lets the button become them. Grimoire: Imp Lord was missing from the cooldowns SimulationCraft presses for the assistant (Summon Demonic Tyrant was there). The patch adds it, so it counts in SBA + cooldown only. Without the fix (SimulationCraft as published, or Raidbots) the assistant's figures differ; manual play is not affected.

Best Mythic+ talents for the button

For one-button play in M+, import this build: +4.6% damage with SBA + cooldown over SimulationCraft's build.

Best of 4 builds tested with the button (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-10-30: a talent search for the button, one talent swap at a time from SimulationCraft's build.

One-button damage (SBA + cooldown DPS), M+ dungeon, 4-piece

Best M+ build for the buttonRecommended237,403+4.6%
SimulationCraft's build226,956

Best M+ build for the button: talent string Recommended for one-button

CoQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwMzMzoZjhZmxsMAAAAAAAjtlBGwAmhtQGbmhZ2mlZmZMDAMDzMzAMzMmxMDAAwMzMzMjZYZGAD

SimulationCraft's build: talent string

CoQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwMzMzoZjhZmxsMAAAAAAAjtlBGwAmhtQGbmhZ2mlZmZMDAYMzMzAMzMmxMDAAwMzMzMjZYZAYA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it. The best build we found for the button. Every figure on this page uses it.

Best raid talents for the button

SimulationCraft's raid build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.

Talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set (2026-11-10): it starts from SimulationCraft's raid build, tries every legal single talent swap, keeps the ones that add damage and repeats, never touching a defensive talent; a build wins only when it beats SimulationCraft's raid build by more than 0.2 %. Perfect manual play keeps SimulationCraft's raid build, so the Ranking compares the button on its best talents with the best manual build.

SimulationCraft's raid build (best on the raid boss for the button): talent string Recommended for one-button

CoQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwMzMzoZjhZmxsMAAAAAAAjtlBGwAmhtQGbmhZ2mlZmZMDAYMzMzAMzMmxMDAAwMzMzMjZYZAYA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it.

Where the damage comes from

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

Compare manual play with

Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.

Ability	Manual	SBA + cooldown	SBA + cooldown vs manual
Fel Firebolt (Wild Imp)	43.1K15.9% · 1756.8 casts	36.9K15.5% · 1505 casts	−6,141
Isolated Implosion (AoE)	23.2K8.6%	20.6K8.7%	−2,635
Wicked Reaping	23.2K8.6%	21.4K9.0%	−1,711
Demonbolt	20.4K7.5% · 76.8 casts	18.4K7.7% · 71.2 casts	−2,028
Demonic Soul	16.7K6.2%	15.1K6.4%	−1,556
Burning Cleave (Demonic Tyrant)	15.8K5.8% · 59.1 casts	14.4K6.1% · 58.3 casts	−1,395
Soul Swipe Aoe (Demonic Soul)	13.3K4.9% · 114.5 casts	11.5K4.8% · 99.6 casts	−1,766
Shadow Nova (Lady Sacrolash)	12.0K4.5% · 35.5 casts	10.1K4.2% · 30.6 casts	−1,976
Soul Barrage Cast (Antoran Jailer)	11.3K4.2% · 218 casts	8,4613.6% · 166.7 casts	−2,806
Blaze Missile (Grand Warlock Alythess)	11.0K4.1% · 68.4 casts	9,1913.9% · 58.7 casts	−1,846
Mind Sear Channel (Antoran Inquisitor)	10.6K3.9% · 9 casts	7,7323.3% · 7.1 casts	−2,879
Hand of Gul'dan	9,2803.4%	7,8993.3%	−1,381
Soul Anathema	7,9762.9%	7,2373.0%	−739
Shadow Bolt	7,8692.9% · 56.8 casts	4,3861.8% · 32.9 casts	−3,483
Greater Felbolt (Grimoire: Imp Lord)	6,8482.5% · 21 casts	7,1733.0% · 21.2 casts	+325
Soul Swipe (Demonic Soul)	6,8462.5% · 114.5 casts	5,8692.5% · 99.6 casts	−977
Gloom Slash (Vilefiend)	6,7042.5%	6,6692.8%	−35
Legion Strike (Summon Felguard)	5,6532.1% · 42.7 casts	5,6412.4% · 42.7 casts	−12
Felstorm (Summon Felguard)	5,0951.9% · 17.6 casts	5,1032.1% · 17.6 casts	+8
Melee (Summon Felguard)	4,5451.7% · 154 casts	4,5061.9% · 154.4 casts	−39
Bile Spit (Vilefiend)	2,3180.9% · 16.6 casts	2,3651.0% · 17.1 casts	+47
Dreadbite (Dreadstalker)	1,5950.6% · 33.1 casts	1,6260.7% · 33.8 casts	+31
Melee (Vilefiend)	1,5800.6% · 140.4 casts	1,5680.7% · 140.8 casts	−12
Melee (Dreadstalker)	1,3170.5% · 120.8 casts	1,3220.6% · 122.4 casts	+5
Headbutt (Vilefiend)	1,2720.5% · 46.6 casts	1,2650.5% · 46.6 casts	−7
Rune of Unleashed Fire	9630.4% · 53.2 casts	9620.4% · 52.9 casts	−1
Rune of Lingering	2640.1% · 53.2 casts	2620.1% · 52.9 casts	−2
Total	270.7K	237.7K	−33.0K

A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.

Questions about Demonology Warlock (Soul Harvester)

What are the best Mythic+ talents for Demonology Warlock (Soul Harvester) with the one-button rotation?

The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ deals 4.6% more damage with the button than SimulationCraft's build. It was the best of 4 builds tested (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io), plus a talent search for the button. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import. The raid build is searched separately.

How much DPS does Demonology Warlock (Soul Harvester) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?

Related builds

Other hero talents of Demonology Warlock

Demonology Warlock · DiabolistM+ −25.40% · raid −16.66%

Other Warlock specs

DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking

How it's measured, and its limits

SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route.
Best talents for the button: of SimulationCraft's build, the top 10 Mythic+ players' builds on murlok.io and a talent search for the button, the one that deals the most with SBA + cooldown in the M+ dungeon. Gear and rotation are unchanged.
SimulationCraft ships no profile for some hero talents (9 here). Those use SimulationCraft's gear with a top player's build: a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io in M+, and on the raid boss the most played build in top raid kills on Warcraft Logs when there are any, otherwise SimulationCraft's raid talents with that Mythic+ build's hero talents (or the Mythic+ build itself where it deals more). No talent search for the button has been run for them yet.
SimulationCraft ships no profile at all for Devastation Evoker and Balance Druid. Those use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to the item level of SimulationCraft's profiles, with the build most real players use (or a top player's build where too few play that hero talent), and a talent search for the button.

Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.