Diabolic Ritual
Spending a Soul Shard on a damaging spell grants Diabolic Ritual for 20 sec. While Diabolic Ritual is active, each Soul Shard spent on a damaging spell reduces its duration by 1 sec. When Diabolic Ritual expires you gain Demonic Art, causing your next Hand of Gul'dan to summon an Overlord, Mother of Chaos, or Pit Lord that unleashes a devastating attack against your enemies.
Tree position
In the Demonology Warlock talent tree, Diabolic Ritual sits in the Diabolist hero talent tree, row 1 of 5. It is a single-point node.
Connected below
Diabolic Ritual leads on to Cloven Souls, Touch of Rancora, Secrets of the Coven and Diabolic Oculi.
Cloven SoulsEnemies damaged by your Overlord have their souls cloven, increasing damage taken by you and your pets by 5% for 15 sec.
Touch of RancoraDemonic Art increases the damage of your next Hand of Gul'dan by 20% and reduces its cast time by 50%.
Secrets of the CovenMother of Chaos empowers your next Shadow Bolt to become Infernal Bolt. Hurl a bolt enveloped in the infernal flames of the abyss, dealing (1347.3% of Spell Power) Fire damage to your enemy target and generating 3 Soul Shards.
Diabolic OculiDiabolic Oculi explode when consuming Demonic Art, dealing (234.6% of Spell Power) Fire damage to all enemies of the target. Damage reduced beyond 8 targets.
Talent trees
Diabolic Ritual is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Warlock: Affliction (DPS), Demonology (DPS), Destruction (DPS).
Diabolic Ritual Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)