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September 29, 2024

SoD Phase 5 updated: All Warlock Runes and locations guide

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Here, you will find detailed information about all Warlock Runes and locations available, with new Rune guide updates for SoD Phase 5.

If “What are Runes in SoD?” and “Where to get all Warlock Runes in SoD?” are your questions, then you are in the right place.

Runes are a new gameplay mechanic in WoW Classic Season of Discovery. They offer additional spells and abilities, allowing you to transform the playstyle of your character’s class. Runes can be found in the open world. The acquisition methods vary based on your character’s race and faction.

There are 12 Runes for each class in Phase 1, 6 to 7 Runes in Phase 2, 6 to 7 Runes in Phase 3, additional 3 Runes in Phase 4. At the moment of writing, there is 1 new Rune in Phase 5. Previously, we have discussed all SoD Shaman Runes and their locations. You can check it out here:

And now, it’s Warlock’s time! Below is the complete list of all WoW Warlock Runes in Season of Discovery, how to get them, their locations, and even coordinates for your convenience. 

Special thanks to the WoW community, and especially our readers on WowVendor, for the invaluable contribution in uncovering the Runes and generously sharing the methods of acquiring them with the whole gaming community. Check out the “Top Contributors” section at the end to see all the players who have joined hands to improve this guide!

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SoD Phase 5

SoD Phase 5: Simplified Rune discovery

Previously, some runes could be hard to unlock due to high requirements or needed content being outdated, making it hard to find fellow travelers. But now, with the release of new Phase 5, Pix Xizzix in Booty Bay also makes bind-on-account tokens available for characters who have finished certain shared discoveries, such as the Dark Riders, Wild Gods, Ley Lines, or Illari Duskfeather. Simply purchase the relevant emblem and mail it to an alt character to redeem at a special Rune Broker in Stormwind and Orgrimmar for their appropriate class rune. Here are emblems that can be used by Warlocks:

• Emblem of the Violet Eye
  • Rune: Demonic Knowledge
    • Cost: 5 Tarnished Undermine Real
• Emblem of Dishonor
  • Rune: Shadow and Flame
    • Cost: 5 Tarnished Undermine Real
• Emblem of the Worldcore
  • Rune: Backdraft
    • Cost: 5 Tarnished Undermine Real
• Emblem of the Wild Gods
  • Rune: Vengeance
    • Cost: 5 Tarnished Undermine Real

SoD Phase 5: 1 new Warlock Rune

In SoD Phase 5, there is 1 New Warlock Rune to obtain: Meditation Specialization. This Ring Rune is universal for multiple classes and is earned the same way. Both Runes are account-bind and can be transferred to other characters. To find out more about how to get them — check our:

Sod Phase 5: Rune changes

In SoD Phase 5, two Warlock Runes received a slot-change. Incinerate is now placed in the Wrists slot (Legs previously), and Soul Siphon is now placed in the Cloak slot (Chest previously).

All Warlock Runes in Season of Discovery Phase 4

SoD Phase 4 Updated: All Warlock Runes and locations — Cloak slot

How to get Soul Siphon Rune

Soul Siphon: Increases the amount drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by an additional 6% for each of your Warlock Shadow effects afflicting the target, up to a maximum of 18% additional effect. Previously, this Rune was placed in the Chest clot, but it was changed in SoD Phase 5).

How to get Soul Siphon:

• Human: Drain a critter with Drain Soul to obtain [Innocent Shard]. Drain Hogger to obtain [Wanted Shard]. Trade both Shards to Damien Kane, found in Goldshire Inn’s basement.
• Orc: Drain a critter with Drain Soul to obtain [Innocent Shard]. Drain Gazz’uz to obtain [Wanted Shard]. Trade both Shards to Darmak Bloodhowl in Razor Hill
• Undead: Drain a critter with Drain Soul to obtain [Pure Shard]. Drain Maggot Eye to obtain [Wanted Shard]. Trade both Shards to Denton Bleakway in Undercity.
• Gnome: Drain a critter with Drain Soul to obtain [Pure Shard]. Drain Captain Beld to obtain [Wanted Shard]. Trade both Shards to Gaklik Voidtwist in Kharanos.

How to get Warlock Decimation Rune in SoD

Decimation: Your Soul Fire spell no longer has a cooldown. Additionally, when you Shadow Bolt, Shadow Cleave, Incinerate, or Soul Fire a target that is at or below 35% health, the cast time of your Soul Fire spell is reduced by 40% for 10 sec. Soul Fires cast under the effect of Decimation cost no shard.

How to get Decimation:

1. Send your Explorer Imp through a Fel Rift located in the Burning Steppes or Eastern Plaguelands. Your imp might return with a Legion Portal Tuner (5 Charges).
2. Use the Legion Portal Tuner on a Fel Scar in Azshara, Blasted Lands, or Feralas.
3. The Fel Scar will change its appearance; send your imp through it. There is a chance your imp will return with a Portal Tuner Tuner.
4. Use the Portal Tuner Tuner to upgrade the Legion Portal Tuner into an Overcharged Portal Tuner.
5. Apply the Overcharged Portal Tuner on a Fel Scar in Azshara, Blasted Lands, or Feralas.
6. The Fel Scar should turn red; send your imp inside one final time. Your imp should return with the Rune of Decimation.

You can simultaneously team up and send all your imps through a portal before it disappears. If someone in the group uses the Overcharged Portal Tuner, all members can send their imps through a red portal, skipping steps 1 and 2.

How to get Warlock Mark of Chaos Rune in SoD

Mark of Chaos: All your Curses except Curse of Shadow and Curse of the Elements now apply the Mark of Chaos, reducing the target’s magical resistances by 75 and increasing all spell damage taken by 11% while they remain cursed.

How to get Mark of Chaos:

How to get Warlock Infernal Armor Rune in SoD

Infernal Armor: Your spirit becomes infused with demonic energy, reducing all Magic damage you take by a percentage equal to your Physical damage reduction from armor. Lasts 10 sec.

How to get Infernal Armor:

1. Head to the Blasted Lands at [64.8, 31.8].
2. Defeat Shadowsworn mobs, such as Shadowsworn Cultists or Shadowsworn Adepts, until you obtain a Shadowsworn Note.
3. Enter the cave, filled with level 53 mobs, and proceed to the altar at the far end, keeping to the left as you go.
4. Conjure, equip, and use a Greater Spellstone.
5. Cast Fel Armor or Demon Armor.
6. Cast Shadow Ward.
7. Cast Sacrifice on a Voidwalker.
8. After sacrificing your Voidwalker, summon another one and then use Health Funnel to top off its health, or have a healer friend help out. Your pet must survive. You have about 15 seconds after using the last absorption. Also, remember to use Detect Invisibility and Unending Breath to prevent your barriers from being dispelled.
9. Click the altar to spawn the level 56 elite Heliath. Defeat him and loot the Rune of Infernal Armor.

All Warlock Runes in Season of Discovery Phase 3

SoD Phase 3 Updated: All Warlock Runes and locations — Wrists slot

How to get Incinerate Rune

Incinerate: Burn your enemy for (222 / 100 *) to (258 / 100 *) damage and increase all Fire damage you deal by 25% for the next 15 sec. Previously, this Rune was placed in the Legs slot, but it was changed in SoD Phase 5.

How to get Incinerate:

• Alliance and Horde: Drops from the level 23 elite Orc Incinerator Gar’im in the Redridge Mountains. Located within a southeastern cave around [77, 85].

How to get Warlock Immolation Aura Rune in SoD

Immolation Aura Rune: Burns nearby enemies for [(6.568597 + 0.672028 * 60 + 0.031721 * 60 * 60) * 20 / 100]32.217 damage every 2 seconds, and reduces all magic damage taken by 10%. Lasts until cancelled.

How to get Immolation Aura:

Gather 3 reagents from different types of demons in Ashenvale. These demons are specifically located at the Emerald Portal [94, 37].

• Gather 3 reagents from different types of demons in Ashenvale. These demons are specifically located at the Emerald Portal [94, 37].
  • Dreampyre Imp –  Dreampyre Fire
  • Emberspark Dreamsworn –  Dreamsworn Horn
  • Dreamhunter Hound –  Dreamhunter Fang
• Combine the three items you obtained from demons to claim your Rune.

How to get Warlock Summon Felguard Rune in SoD

Summon Felguard Rune: Summons a Felguard under the command of the Warlock.

The Felguard benefits from all talents and effects that trigger from or benefit any of your other Demon minions.

How to get Summon Felguard:

This Rune has a chance to be looted from the treasure bag of the Explorer Imp, a new Warlock companion introduced in Phase 3 of the Season of Discovery, which can access Fel Portals and acquire items through them.

Current known Fel Portals that drop this Rune:

• Desolace – Fel Tear
• Swamp of Sorrows – Fel Tear
• Ashenvale – Fel Crack
• Westfall – Fel Silver
• The Barrens – Fel Silver

How to get Warlock Unstable Affliction Rune in SoD

Unstable Affliction Rune: Shadow energy slowly destroys the target, causing [60 * 5 * (6.568597 + 0.672028 * 60 + 0.031721 * 60 * 60) / 100]483.258 damage over 15 sec. In addition, if the Unstable Affliction is dispelled it will cause [60 * 9 * (6.568597 + 0.672028 * 60 + 0.031721 * 60 * 60) / 100]869.864 damage to the dispeller and silence them for 5 sec. Only one Unstable Affliction or Immolate per Warlock can be active on any one target.

How to get Unstable Affliction:

To get the Unstable Affliction rune, you’ll need to reach Friendly reputation with the Emerald Wardens faction. Emerald Wardens reputation can be earned by participating in Nightmare Incursions. Once you are Friendly, you’ll be able to purchase the Rune of Affliction for 1 gold and 60 silver.

Vendors that sell the Rune:

• Quartermaster Kyleen
• Quartermaster Valdane
• Quartermaster Falinar
• Quartermaster Alandra

SoD Phase 3 Updated: All Warlock Runes and locations — Head slot

How to get Warlock Backdraft Rune in SoD

Backdraft Rune: Your Conflagrate ability also grants 30% spellcasting haste for 10 sec.

How to get Backdraft:

• To get this Rune, you need to use Worldcore Fragment on Leyline Confluxes in four different places.
• Worldcore Fragment cannot be traded or bought, they must be obtained by collecting treasure with your Explorer Imp. You will need 4 in total to get the Rune, but you can loot the items in a group, so it may be wise to party up with other Warlocks so you don’t need to use 4 fragments each. Mages in your party can also use their Scroll of Geomancy to attune to Leyline Conflux.
• Each Conflux will summon an Enraged Leywalker, a level 47 Elite that you must defeat to loot a Leycryst. Here are the locations and the items you must loot from them:
  • Azshara [21, 79] – Azshara Leycryst
  • Feralas [57, 60] – Feralas Leycryst
  • Searing Gorge [55, 65] – Blackrock Leycryst
  • The Hinterlands [48, 59] – Hinterlands Leycryst
• Once you have gathered all four Leycrysts, you can combine them to learn the Rune.

How to get Warlock Pandemic Rune in SoD

Pandemic Rune: Periodic damage from your Corruption, Unstable Affliction, Curse of Agony, Immolate, Curse of Doom, and Siphon Life abilities can now be critical strikes.

How to get Pandemic:

• Feralas: There are two mobs you will need to find in Feralas, near the respective camps:
  • Dead Diseased Grimtotem Shaman – drops  Grimtotem Necklace [69, 43]
  • Dead Diseased Woodpaw Mystic – drops  Broken Woodpaw Staff [66, 50]
• Combine these two items to create the Diseased Nature Staff. Use it on a Diseased Forest Walker, Treant mob located near the Woodpaw camps in Feralas [72, 50]. Once the Treant is awakened, loot the Rune.

How to get Warlock Vengeance Rune in SoD

Vengeance Rune: Gain the Vengeance ability. When activated, this ability temporarily grants you a 30% increase to your maximum health for 20 sec. After the effect expires, the health is lost. Additionally, while in Metamorphosis, Vengeance causes your wings to slow your falling speed.

How to get Vengeance:

1. Pick up the quest The Wild Gods from Shadowtooth Emissary in Emerald Sanctuary, Felwood, /way 51.5 82. This initial quest is not shareable; everyone will need to pick it up for themselves.
2. Only one player in a group needs to have done this step: Go to Jinth’Alor in the Hinterlands. Kill elite trolls to obtain Wildwhisper Draught.
3. Go to Razorfen Downs and clear the area around Amnennar the Coldbringer. Drink Wildwhisper Draught to spawn Spirit of Agamaggan. Speak to him to get a quest and Agamaggan’s Roar. Only one player needs to drink the draught to spawn him.
4. You can either do all three Dungeons for variety, or you can do multiple runs on the same dungeon. There is no difference between the Wild Offering drops among the three mobs. Since Wild Offering also becomes a currency (see Tips below), you will want to farm more of these anyway.In each of these three Dungeons related to this Rune, you will need to kill specific mobs in to spawn a ghostly mob.This ghostly mob can be killed once per Dungeon lockout, meaning resetting the same Dungeon and running it again is a valid strategy. When you trigger the conditions for the ghostly mob, you get a chat emote “You feel a shadowed presence”. Use Agamaggan’s Roar near the ghostly mob; this makes a level 52 elite called the Delirious Ancient turn hostile. Each Ancient drops 1x Wild Offering:
   • Zul’Farrak: Clear any three bosses to spawn a Ghostly Spider to summon Delirious Ancient.
   • Maraudon: Clear Princess Theradras area and spawn a Ghostly Raptor to summon Delirious Ancient. The Ghostly Raptor is in the water on the upper level near the turtles; do NOT jump down for it.
   • Blackrock Depths: Kill all three boss encounters — High Interrogator Gerstahn, Houndmaster Grebmar, and the Ring of Law event — to spawn a Ghostly Basilisk on the Dark Iron Highway (road to Bael’gar) to summon Delirious Ancient.
5. Once you have collected all three Wild Offerings, return to Shadowtooth Emissary to collect your Rune.

SoD Phase 2 Updated: 6 new Warlock Runes

In Season of Discovery Phase 2, Warlocks have 6 new Runes to bolster their arsenal:

• Grimoire of Synergy: Recite from a dark tome, granting damage done by you or your summoned demon a 5% chance to increase the damage done by the other by 5% for 15 sec. Recitation lasts 30 min. (Proc chance: 5%)
• Invocation: Refreshing Corruption, Immolate, Curse of Agony, or Siphon Life when it has less than 6 seconds duration remaining will cause you to deal instant damage to the target equal to the spell’s remaining periodic damage.
• Shadow and Flame: Your critical strikes with Fire and Shadow spells increase your Fire and Shadow damage done by 10% for 10 sec.
• Dance of the Wicked: You and your demon pet gain dodge chance equal to your spell critical strike chance each time you deal a critical strike to an enemy, and also both regain 2% of maximum mana.
• Demonic Knowledge: Increases your spell damage and healing by a value equal to 10% of your Demon pet’s total Stamina plus Intellect.
• Shadowflame: Targets in a cone in front of the caster take (64 */ 100) Shadow damage and an additional (24 * 4 */ 100) Fire damage over 8 sec. This effect can be consumed with Conflagrate.

Below, you’ll find detailed instructions on all Warlock Runes and their locations in SoD Phase 2.

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All Warlock Runes in Season of Discovery Phase 2

In Season of Discovery Phase 2, Warlocks have 6 new Runes to strengthen their power. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of all Warlock Runes and their locations. Detailed instructions on acquiring these Runes are also provided for your convenience.

SoD Phase 2 Updated: All Warlock Runes and locations — Waist slot

How to get Grimoire of Synergy Rune

Requirements and recommendations before obtaining Grimoire of Synergy: You must have completed the Metamorphosis Rune to get the mail and quest. Level 32 is recommended for the Shadow Ward spell, which helps you survive part of the quest more effectively.

• The Barrens: At level 30, you’ll get a mail to return to the Warlock camp [49.2 57.2]. You will get a new quest with Raszel Ander, A Solid Foundation. You will also receive an invisibility potion.
• Ashenvale: Go to Bough Shadow [90, 40] near the Ysondre World Boss area. Use the provided invisibility potion to get around two level 60 elites. Look for a lootable tree and loot the Bough of Shadows.
• Once you have the Bough of Shadows, return to Raszel Ander. However, you will suffer from stacking shadow dot damage that will eventually kill you.  Shadow Ward will mitigate it, and Healing will help you live through it.
• Pick up Soul Vessel. This requires you to bring back a Soul Vessel, which is crafted by Engineering (205).
• Schematic: Soul Vessel – purchased with Honored reputation from Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics
• Soul Vessel Requires 4x  Shadowgem, 1x  Demonic Figurine, and 1x  Black Vitriol.  Shadowgem are common drops from low-level mobs and mining. You can purchase  Shadowgem from many different Reagent vendors. The most difficult-to-obtain material is Black Vitriol, which is a rare drop from high-level mining.
• Once you have the Soul Vessel, you will need to go to Mannoroc Coven in southern Desolace [54, 80]. Turn it in and receive the Rune for the Grimoire of Synergy.

How to get Invocation Rune

To get Invocation Rune, you need to:

• Defeat Syndicate Conjuror for 10  Conjuror’s Pendant. These mobs can be found in Stormgarde Keep [27, 61] in Arathi Highlands
• Combine the Soul of the Void with the Conjuror’s Pendant on the Void Prism on the top floor of the house in Stormgarde Keep
• Defeat the Void Seeker that spawns and get the Rune.

How to get Shadow and Flame Rune

To get Shadow and Flame:

• Desolace: Accept the Highway Robbery quest in Desolace at an Extinguished Campfire northwest of the Kodo Graveyard [47, 54].
• Desolace: Go to [63, 39] near Kormek’s Hut. Turn it in to Bibbly F’utzbuckle and pick up the quest On the Lam.
• Booty Bay: Go to the inn in Booty Bay. Turn  On the Lam in Tokal, and pick up  Cherry for Your Thoughts? Buy her  Cherry Grog. She will send you on the next part of your quest,  No Honor Among Thieves.
• Arathi Highlands There is Rowboat under the bridge between Arathi Highlands and the Wetlands, around [53, 91] on the Arathi Highlands map. Interact with the boat and you will be teleported to the eastern shore.
• Find Illari Duskfeather and speak with her. For most races, she will give (two equally hostile) dialogue options; upon choosing one, she will fight you. Defeat her, pick up the dropped bag, and loot Illari’s Key. Open Illari’s Loot Cache to obtain the Jewel-Encrusted Box, then open this box to loot the Rune. Night Elves have a peaceful dialogue solution available; if chosen, she will give them the Illari’s Key to Illari’s Loot Cache, allowing them to loot the Jewel-Encrusted Box without combat.

SoD Phase 2 Updated: All Warlock Runes and locations — Feet slot

How to get Dance of the Wicked Rune

To get Dance of the Wicked:

Requirements and recommendations before obtaining this Rune: You’ll need to use Hellfire to acquire this Rune, so make sure you have it trained.

Warlocks must find and interact with a Reckless Warlock to loot Brimstone Carving.

• Known spawn locations for the Reckless Warlock:
  • Stranglethorn Vale: Spawns inside the Gurubashi Arena on the western side [30, 47].
  • Thousand Needles: Spawns near the Singed Highperch Consort around [10, 40].
• Once you’ve obtained the  Brimstone Carving, players must use  Hellfire to damage mobs and themselves. Once you use Hellfire to reduce yourself below 70% health, the charm will transform into the Rune.

How to get Demonic Knowledge Rune

To get Demonic Knowledge:

• Travel to Deadwind Pass and speak with the Dalaran Agent at Ariden’s Camp [52, 35]. They will give you Ariden’s Sigil.
• With Ariden’s Sigil equipped, or while with another player that has Ariden’s Sigil equipped, players must find and defeat seven Dark Rider Elites after using Ariden’s Sigil to Reveal Dark Rider, which will reward them with a different Dalaran Relic. Players will know a Dark Rider is nearby if they obtain the Dark Presence buff.
• Deadwind Pass: the Dark Rider can be found at [43, 29] and drops Curious Dalaran Relic.
• Duskwood: the Dark Rider can be found at [23, 47] and drops Glittering Dalaran Relic.
• Swamp of Sorrows: the Dark Rider can be found at [69, 28] and drops Odd Dalaran Relic.
• Arathi Highlands: the Dark Rider can be found at [60, 40] and drops Whirring Dalaran Relic.
• Badlands: the Dark Rider can be found at [58, 54] and drops Slippery Dalaran Relic.
• The Barrens: the Dark Rider can be found at [52, 36] and drops Heavy Dalaran Relic.
• Desolace: the Dark Rider can be found at [65, 25] and drops Creepy Dalaran Relic.
• Once players have obtained all Dalaran Relics, return to the Dalaran Agent and turn in each of the various reward quests for experience and some silver:
  • Curious Dalaran Relic
  • Curious Dalaran Relic
  • Curious Dalaran Relic
  • Curious Dalaran Relic
  • Curious Dalaran Relic
  • Curious Dalaran Relic
  • Curious Dalaran Relic
• Once all seven Dalaran Relics have been returned, the Dalaran Agent will offer  A Service to Dalaran, which rewards the Supply Bag and contains the Rune inside.

How to get Shadowflame Rune

To get Shadowflame: Requirements and recommendations before obtaining this Rune: You will need to use  Shadow Ward (level 32) to get this Rune. You should also bring anything that offers Shadow resistance, such as potions, scrolls, and friends to buff or heal.

• Cast Shadow Ward and interact with the Altar by channeling it. It deals lethal Shadow damage over 5 seconds (Shadow Ritual of Sacrifice), but you cannot be healed while you are channeling the Altar.
• You can use buffs such as Sacrifice,  Shadow Ward,  Soul Link, Shadow resistance/Fortify from other players, Shadow Resistance gear and  Shadow Protection Potion, etc
• You can cheese the sacrifice portion it by using  Sacrifice and  Shadow Ward while fully geared and starting the channel while naked. You will need to immediately put your gear back once the channel is done.
• Completing the channel will spawn a level 38 Elite succubus, Seductress Ceeyna. She does not have a ton of hit points, but a healer friend is highly recommended.
• Defeat Seductress Ceeyna to loot the Rune.

All Warlock Runes in Season of Discovery Phase 1

In Season of Discovery Phase 1, there are a total of 12 Warlock Runes available. Detailed instructions on how to get them are provided below. As for Warlock Runes in Season of Discovery Phase 2, simply scroll down for the updated information, or you can conveniently navigate through the Table of Contents.

All Warlock Runes and locations in SoD Phase 1: Chest slot

How to get Lake of Fire Rune

Lake of Fire: Rain of Fire also leaves a Lake of Fire on the ground that increases all Fire damage you deal and your Demon pet deals to affected enemies by 40% for 15 sec.

How to get Lake of Fire:

Alliance and Horde: In Hillsbrad Foothills, purchase the Bomb for 5 Gold from Zixil, the wandering Goblin merchant (this NPC travels between Southshore and Tarren Mill). Head to Durnholde Keep [77, 41] and use the Demolition Explosives on the ‘Rubble’ in the center of Durnholde Keep and to the right at the top. Destroying this Rubble will reveal a chest containing the rune.

How to get Master Channeler Rune

Master Channeler Rune: Your Drain Life is no longer channeled, lasts 15 sec with a 15-sec cooldown, costs 100% more mana, and heals you for 50% more each time it deals damage.

How to get Master Channeler:

• Gnome:
  • Find Greishan Ironstove in Loch Modan. Coordinates: [27.3, 61.9].
  • Purchase Malevolent Pie from him and eat it. Once it’s done, he will give you the Rune.
• Human:
  • According to Zamm0 and Taine, our readers on WowVendor, the approach to obtaining this Rune mirrors the Gnomes’ way of getting it:
    • Take the tram from Stormwind to Iron Forge and walk to Loch Modan. Find Greishan Ironstove at coordinates [27.3, 61.9].
    • Purchase Malevolent Pie from him and eat it. Once it’s done, he will give you the Rune.
  • Alternatively, if you enjoy vanquishing adversaries, you can follow another route found by our reader on WowVendor, Littlelagger:
    • Go to Westfall and defeat any of the Harvesters until you get 1 Spare Reaper part.
    • Defeat Dust Devils until you get an Elemental core.
    • Combine the two items to make a Prototype Engine.
    • Use the combined item on the Harvest Reaper Prototype.
    • Go to the two windmills near Saldean’s farm in Westfall.
    • Defeat the level 18 that spawns to receive the Rune.
• Orc: Use Health Funnel while standing on the Altar of Thorns in the Barrens. At 0 health, you will be healed to full, obtaining the Rune.
• Undead:
  • Go to Silverpine Forest.
  • Find the cave at coordinates [56, 45].
  • Cast Curse of Recklessness on and defeat a level 19 elite Imp inside.

How to get Demonic Tactics Rune

Demonic Tactics: Increases the melee and spell critical strike chance of you and your pet by 10%.

How to get Demonic Tactics:

• Alliance:
  • Go to the area near Jasperlode Mine and loot the Dead Acolyte near [56.8, 57.0].
  • Take the artifact to the Warlock trainer in Goldshire, then go back to the Dead Acolyte.
  • Use Powerless Artifact on the spot, and receive Blood Offering.
  • You have 10 minutes to go to Gakin the Darkbinder in Stormwind. He will take your debuff and give you the rune.
• Horde:
  • Go to near Scarlet Monastery and loot the Dead Acolyte near [76.6, 44.4].
  • Take the artifact to the Warlock Trainer in Brill, then go back to Dead Acolyte
  • Use Powerless Artifact on the spot and receive Blood Offering.
  • You have 10 minutes to go to Carendin Halgar in Undercity. He will take your debuff and give you the rune.

All Warlock Runes and locations in SoD Phase 1: Legs slot

How to get Everlasting Affliction Rune

Everlasting Affliction: Drain Life, Drain Soul, Shadowbolt, Shadow Cleave, Searing Pain, Incinerate, and Haunt refresh the duration of your Corruption on the target back to its maximum duration.

How to get Everlasting Affliction: Rune is purchasable for 4 gold and 50 silver once you reach Honored with the new Supply Factions, Durotar Supply and Logistics for Horde players and Azeroth Commerce Authority for Alliance players.

How to get Demonic Grace Rune

Demonic Grace: Surge with fel energy, increasing your pet’s and your own dodge chance by 30%, and your chance to critically strike with all attacks by 30%. Lasts 6 sec.

How to get Demonic Grace:

Warning: Don’t lose the tag on the summoning mob or you’ll need to farm the materials again!

• Undead:
  • Obtain Ominous Tome
  • The summoning circle is in the Sewers location in Undercity, up where the flight path usually flies you over.
  • Summon a demon with lots of HP, but easily defeated with Fear, DoTs, and Haunt.
    • Ominous Tome: dropped by Skeletons in Agaman’s Mill.
    • Gnoll Blood: dropped by any Gnoll in Garren’s Haunt.
    • Wolf Jawbone: dropped by any Darkhound in Tirisfal Glades.
• Gnome:
  • Obtain Ominous Tome from Frostmane Shadowcaster in Troll cave west of Brewnall Village.
  • Loot Wendigo Blood from Wendigo mobs.
  • Loot Wolf Jawbone from Wolf mobs (Coldridge Valley is a good location).
  • Use the reagents on Shimmer Ridge and kill the summoned demon.
• Orc:
  • Obtain Ominous Tome from Voodoo Trolls in Echo Isles.
  • Loot Makrura Leg from Makrura mobs.
  • Loot Kul Tiran Skull from Kul Tiran mobs in Tiragarde Keep.
  • Use the reagents on the summoning circle near Zalazane and kill the summoned demon.
• Human
  • Obtain Ominous Tome from Kobolds in Jasperlode Mine. According to our reader on WowVendor, Thiburnacle, you can also get it by taking down Surena Caledon in Elwynn Forest. She’s in the house at the Brackwell Pumpkin patch. Coordinates: [71, 80].
  • Loot Gnoll Blood from any Gnoll.
  • Loot Wolf Jawbone from any Prowler or Wolf.
  • Use the reagents on the summoning circle at The Slaughtered Lamb Inn in the Mage Quarter in Stormwind and kill the summoned demon.

How to get Demonic Pact Rune

Demonic Pact: Your pet’s critical strikes apply the Demonic Pact effect to your party members for 45 sec. Demonic Pact increases spell damage and healing by 10% of your spell damage or (Level / 2), whichever is higher. Does not work on Subjugated demons.

How to get Demonic Pact: This Rune is sold by Grizzby, located in Ratchet. In order to purchase this Rune, Grizzby will require you to complete the following pre-quests:

• Shredder Turbochargers – You will need to bring Grizzby 16  Shredder Turbocharger. These are acquired by using  Shredder Autosalvage Unit on Venture Co. Shredders in the Windshear Crag, Stonetalon Mountains.
  
• Dark Iron Ordinance – You will need to bring Grizzby 20 Dark Iron Ordinance. These are acquired by slaying Dark Iron Insurgent in North Loch Modan, or Dark Iron Rifleman and other Dark Iron Dwarves in North Wetlands.
  
• Fish Oil – You will need to bring Grizzby 24  Fish Oil. These are acquired by slaying Murlocs in Hillsbrad or Wetlands. You may also use the Auction House as these items are fairly common.

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How to get Metamorphosis Rune

Metamorphosis: Transform into a Demon, increasing Armor by 500%, reducing the chance you will be critically hit by 6%, increasing your threat by 50%, increasing mana gained from Life Tap by 100%, transforming the functionality of some of your abilities, and granting some new abilities:

Searing Pain: Now instant.

Shadow Bolt: Becomes Shadow Cleave, a Shadow melee attack that hits up to 3 nearby enemies, but has a 6 sec cooldown.

Fear: Replaced with Menace. Taunts the target to attack you, but has no effect if the target is already attacking you.

Demon Charge: Charge an enemy and stun it for 1 sec.  Cannot be used in combat.

Demonic Howl: Forces all nearby enemies to focus attacks on you for 6 sec.

How to get Metamorphosis:

Alliance and Horde:

• Receive The Orb of Soran’ruk quest from Doan Karhan in South Barrens [49, 57] This will require you to loot 3x Soran’ruk Fragment and 1x Large Soran’ruk Fragment.
  Soran’ruk Fragment are dropped from Twilight Acolyte located at Zoram Strand in Ashenvale, near the entrance to the Blackfathom Deeps raid.
  Large Soran’ruk Fragment is dropped from Shadowfang Darksoul inside Shadowfang Keep
  Once you have looted these items. Return to Doan Karhan and turn the quest in.
• Receive the follow-up quest  Rumors Abound, this will ask you to find Orb of Des, and  Bough of Altek. Loot the Orb of Des at the top of the Tower of the Ilgalar [79, 49] in Redridge Mountains and Bough of Altek at the top of the Tower of Althalaxx [56, 26] in Darkshore. It’s advisable to visit these locations in a group or raid because the mob levels in these towers range from level 29 to 30.
• Accept the follow-up quest The Conjuring, This will require you to loot 10x  Blood of the Legion.  Blood of the Legion Can be found by defeating Mannoroc Lasher, Searing Infernal, Felguard, and Legion Hound at Felfire Canyon, South-East Ashenvale.
• After obtaining the blood, interact with the altar [78, 80] to begin a ritual. Waves of Demons will be summoned, and you must defeat them using Drain Soul while standing in a purple circle. After you complete the waves of demons, Mysterious Traveler will appear from the portal. Receive  Mysterious Traveler from Mysterious Traveler. This will require you to report back to Doan Karhan in South Barrens [49, 57]
• Return to the Barrens and turn in the quest to receive the final step, Raszel Ander, which will grant the Rune.

How to get Shadow Bolt Volley Rune

Shadow Bolt Volley: Your Shadow Bolt now strikes up to 5 targets within a chain distance of 10 yards, but for 20% reduced damage.

How to get Shadow Bolt Volley:

• Alliance: Drops from Delmanis the Hated during the  The Blackwood Corrupted Quest in Darkshore.
  • Gnome: Defeat Demonic Remains with Shadow Bolt in Loch Modan at the ruins to the east around [72, 69]. It spawns a demon that drops the rune.
  • Human: There are two known ways to get the Rune:
    • The first one was found by our reader, Littlelagger:
      • Use Drain Soul on Old Murk-Eye on the North West coast (on the shore of Westfall) to get an item called Soul of the Sea. You don’t need to take down this enemy.
      • Use Soul of the Sea on the statue of Medusa at [26, 70] to spawn a level 20.
      • Defeat the level 20 enemy to receive the Rune.
    • The second one is to follow the Gnome’s way, as confirmed by our reader, Zamm0.
• Horde:
  • Orc: Use Drain Soul on Supervisor Lugwizzle at The Sludge Fen in the Northern Barrens to receive Soul of Greed. Go to [57.08, 9.73], where you will find Hungry Idol. Use Soul of Greed on the Hungry Idol to receive this Rune.
  • Undead: Go to Beren’s Peril in the Silverpine Forest. Defeat enemies here until they drop a Tortured Soul. Use Life Tap, and then the item to summon a Level 20 enemy. Defeat it to obtain the Rune.

How to get Chaos Bolt Rune

Chaos Bolt: Sends a bolt of chaotic fire at the enemy, dealing (* 522 / 100) to (* 662 / 100) Fire damage.  Chaos Bolt always hits, cannot be resisted, and its knowledge causes all your Fire spells to pierce through absorption effects. Chaos Bolt gains a high chance to be resisted when used against monsters 4 or more levels above your level.

How to get Chaos Bolt:

• Undead: In Tirisfal glades, on the Northwest side of the great lake [66.3, 40.0], there is a frozen Murloc. You need to spam fire abilities and thaw the Murloc out. Once you completely thaw the Murloc, it will drop this rune.
• Orc: In Durotar you can find Frozen Makrura at [58.8, 45.6]. Have 2+ Warlocks and pets spamming Immolate until the ice breaks.
• Human: in Elwynn Forest you can find Frozen Murloc [77, 51] at Stonecairn Lake. Have 2+ Warlocks and pets spamming Immolate until the ice breaks.
• Gnome: in Dun Morogh you can find Frozen Trogg [69, 58] at Gol’bolar Quarry. Have 2+ Warlocks and pets spamming Immolate until the ice breaks.

How to get Haunt Rune

Haunt: Unleash a ghostly soul on an enemy, dealing (* 251 / 100) to (* 295 / 100) damage, and increasing all Shadow damage over time you deal to that target by 20%. When the Haunt ends or is dispelled, you will be healed for all the damage it dealt to your target.

How to get Haunt:

• Orc: Complete the level 2 quest Stolen Power. Grab the quest from Nartok. Head North to the Burning Blade Coven. You will find the rune in a Waterlogged Stashbox under the water at the end of the cave [42.9, 54.4]. Click to use the Rune and return to Nartok to unlock the ability.
• Undead: Complete the level 2 quest The Lost Rune. Grab the quest from Maximillion. Head North to the spider cave, you will find the Rune in a Lost Stash halfway through the cave below the upper level [24.6, 59.4]. Use the Rune and return to Maximillion to unlock the ability.
• Human – Complete the level 2 quest Stolen Power from the Warlock class trainer. The chest is around [52, 52], right next to the two outhouses south of the vineyard.
• Gnome – Complete the level 2 quest Stolen Power from the Warlock class trainer. The chest is in the Trogg camp around [26, 72], to the west of the Gnome starting location.

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