PvE Destruction Warlock Enchants, Gems, & Consumables

As a Destruction Warlock in Mists of Pandaria, you’ll be looking for gems, enchants, and consumables that help you reach the Hit cap, or which provide the greatest amount of Mastery and Intellect so you can blow up your enemies with fel fire.

Gems

Gems can help you reach the Hit cap if needed, but it’s better to do that through reforging when possible and save your gem slots for Mastery. As far as colors go, Intellect and Mastery socket bonuses should always be taken by using appropriate colored gems, but Hit bonuses depend on whether you need to reach the cap, and other stats such as Critical Strike, Haste, or Spirit can be ignored.

While Intellect is more valuable point-for-point, you’ll get twice as many stats out of secondary stat gems, which makes them more optimal overall.

Meta Socket

• Sinister Primal Diamond (Available in Phase 2)
• Burning Primal Diamond

Prismatic Socket

• Fractured Serpent’s Eye (Requires Jewelcrafting)
• Fractured Sun’s Radiance or Perfect Fractured Sunstone

Red Socket

• To reach the Hit cap:
  • Accurate imperial Amethyst or Perfect Accurate Roguestone
  • Keen Vermilion Onyx or Perfect Keen Tiger Opal
• Otherwise:
  • Artful Vermilion Onyx or Perfect Artful Tiger Opal

Yellow Socket

• Fractured Serpent’s Eye (Requires Jewelcrafting)
• Fractured Sun’s Radiance or Perfect Fractured Sunstone

Blue Socket

• Rigid River’s Heart or Perfect Rigid Lapis Lazuli
• Accurate imperial Amethyst or Perfect Accurate Roguestone
• Sensei’s Wild Jade or Perfect Sensei’s Alexandrite

Sha-Touched Socket

• Crystallized Horror

Cogwheel Socket

• To reach the Hit cap:
  • Precise Tinker’s Gear
  • Rigid Tinker’s Gear
• Otherwise:
  • Fractured Tinker’s Gear
  • Smooth Tinker’s Gear

Enchants

• Head:
  • (There are no head enchantments available in Mists of Pandaria.)
• Shoulder:
  • Secret Crane Wing Inscription (Requires Inscription)
  • Greater Crane Wing Inscription
• Back:
  • Lightweave Embroidery (Requires Tailoring)
  • Enchant Cloak – Superior Intellect
• Chest:
  • Enchant Chest – Glorious Stats
• Wrist:
  • Fur Lining – Intellect (Requires Leatherworking)
  • Enchant Bracer – Super Intellect
  • Plus Socket Bracer (Requires Blacksmithing)
• Hands:
  • Enchant Gloves – Superior Expertise (to reach the Hit cap)
  • Enchant Gloves – Superior Mastery
  • Plus Synapse Springs (Requires Engineering)
  • Plus Socket Gloves (Requires Blacksmithing)
• Waist:
  • Living Steel Belt Buckle
  • Plus Frag Belt or Nitro Boosts (Requires Engineering)
• Legs:
  • Master’s Spellthread (Requires Tailoring)
  • Greater Cerulean Spellthread
• Feet:
  • Enchant Boots – Greater Precision (if you need Hit)
  • Enchant Boots – Pandaren’s Step
• Finger:
  • Enchant Ring – Greater Intellect (Requires Enchanting)
• Weapon:
  • Enchant Weapon – Jade Spirit
• Off-Hand:
  • Enchant Off-Hand – Major Intellect

Consumables

Potions

You can “pre-pot” by using Potion of the Jade Serpent just before entering combat. This will put your potions on cooldown but allow you to use them again later in the fight. You may want to save your potion cooldown for a healing or mana potion on certain fights.

• Potion of the Jade Serpent
• Master Healing Potion
• Master Mana Potion

Flasks & Elixirs

There are no good Guardian Elixirs for Destruction Warlocks, so you will always prefer to use a flask. If you have Alchemy, you’ll get 30% increased stats and an extra hour of duration from each flask.

• Flask of the Warm Sun

Food

Your best food is made with the Way of the Pot Cooking specialty. Having this specialty will increase the stats you gain from eating the associated Banquets.

• Mogu Fish Stew
• Banquet of the Pot/Great Banquet of the Pot
• Braised Turtle