With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Demonology Warlock Writer, Not, offers a retrospective highlighting Demonology's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.
Overall the new talent system has favoured Demonology quite a bit throughout Dragonflight; from having strong capstone talents throughout varying patches and even having strong talent choices overall throughout the tree. There has typically only been one «niche» talent build that you play each patch however that can feel somewhat limiting to player choice and certain tier bonuses that pidgeon holed you into taking specific talents for that patch. Generally speaking these things have been well received and even felt good to play (at least until 10.2 in my opinion).
With the latest raid release Demonology went well away from playing what most people consider to be a defining ability subset to playing something that just doesn't feel as good to play, especially given how Demonology has played throughout the majority of Dragonflight and even going back to Shadowlands. That combination of playing Summon Demonic