The result is especially interesting because Entombed Sentinels is not a generic patchwerk damage test. It is a spread two-target cleave encounter: the two bosses cannot simply be stacked together, but they still need to die at roughly the same time. That creates exactly the kind of awkward damage profile where some specs lose value and others suddenly discover that Blizzard has built them a private holiday resort.
For Destruction, the important word is Havoc.
Destruction Warlock Is #1 on Mythic Entombed Sentinels
The current Week 2 ranking for Mythic Entombed Sentinels is:
- Destruction Warlock
- Shadow Priest
- Demonology Warlock
- Balance Druid
- Affliction Warlock
Three Warlock specs. Five available places.
That is quite a change from the pre-season picture. We entered Season 2 talking about Demonology looking painfully average while Affliction and Destruction had clearer reasons to exist. Then Blizzard began tuning. Demonology surged upward, Affliction remained competitive, and Destruction found an encounter that practically reads its ability book aloud.
Entombed Sentinels separates the bosses while still demanding damage on both. Many melee and stacked-cleave specializations cannot efficiently transfer their full damage profile across that gap. Destruction can.
Havoc Is Almost Perfect for This Fight
Havoc allows Destruction Warlocks to copy important spells onto a second target. That is useful in plenty of situations, but it becomes particularly valuable when two priority enemies need to be damaged simultaneously while standing far enough apart that ordinary cleave struggles to reach both.
That is essentially the Entombed Sentinels job description.
The bosses cannot be tanked together, and the raid needs to keep their health reasonably synchronized. Destruction does not have to choose quite as painfully between them. Havoc lets the spec continue attacking one target while duplicating significant damage onto the other.
It is the difference between having strong two-target damage and having strong spread two-target damage.
That distinction matters enormously in WoW. A specialization can look spectacular when two bosses stand politely beside one another and dramatically less impressive once Blizzard asks them to maintain a restraining order.
We saw the opposite problem in our first Season 2 Mythic+ meta breakdown, where Destruction had slipped relative to competitors despite not receiving a direct nerf. Mythic+ asks for a broader package of utility, survivability and damage profiles across many different pulls. Entombed Sentinels asks a much simpler question:
Can you damage those two things over there?
Destruction answers yes.
Repeatedly.
Demonology’s Rise Is No Longer Just a Heroic-Raid Story
Demonology sitting at #3 makes the ranking even more interesting.
Only a week ago, Demonology jumped 18 positions to reach #3 in Heroic raid performance at the 95th percentile. Blizzard had given the specialization a substantial package of buffs, including stronger Wild Imps, Felguard, Demonbolt, Shadow Bolt and several summoned demons.
Then Blizzard decided its tier bonus still needed help.
Two days ago, we covered how Demonology’s Season 2 two-piece Implosion effect was increased by 40%, taking its primary-target effectiveness from 250% to 350% and secondary-target effectiveness from 225% to 315%.
That does not mean the entire spec gained another 40% damage, but it does mean Demonology is still receiving additional power while more players complete their Venomous Abyss sets.
Seeing it near the top of Mythic Entombed Sentinels suggests the Heroic ranking jump was not simply the result of easier encounters generating flattering parses.
The demon department has arrived at Mythic difficulty too.
Affliction Quietly Takes Fifth
Affliction is the least dramatic of the three stories, which may be why its fifth-place result is easy to overlook.
The specialization has always been comfortable when it can maintain damage across multiple separated targets. Damage-over-time effects do not particularly care whether two enemies are standing shoulder-to-shoulder, and spread encounters allow Affliction to maintain pressure without relying on traditional short-range cleave.
That makes Entombed Sentinels a natural fit.
Before Season 2 began, our Warlock preview already identified Affliction as the healthier-looking multi-target option, thanks partly to its redesigned tier interactions and stronger priority damage. The current raid data is giving that identity somewhere useful to operate.
Affliction is not beating Destruction here.
It does not need to.
Being fifth while your two sibling specs occupy first and third is already a fairly convincing class advertisement.
This Boss Shows Why Overall DPS Rankings Can Be Misleading
There is a larger lesson in the rankings.
Overall Warcraft Logs charts are useful, but they compress very different encounters into one number. A specialization that ranks tenth across an entire raid can still be the best choice in the game for one particular damage profile.
Entombed Sentinels is a perfect example.
Compare it with Mythic Sszorak, the raid’s cleanest single-target fight. Week 2 data there puts Marksmanship Hunter first, followed by Outlaw Rogue and Subtlety Rogue. None of the three Warlock specs appears in the top five.
Move from pure single target to spread two-target cleave, and suddenly Warlocks occupy 60% of the top five.
The class did not transform while walking down the hallway.
The encounter changed.
This is also why Blizzard’s aggressive Season 2 class-tuning schedule has to be interpreted carefully. Buffing a spec because it appears mediocre overall can have very different consequences on an encounter where its damage profile already fits perfectly.
Twin Fangs Tells a Slightly Different Warlock Story
The next comparison is especially useful.
Twin Fangs is also a two-target encounter, but unlike Entombed Sentinels, the bosses are much more consistently stacked together. That favors traditional cleave.
Current Heroic Week 2 data has:
- Arms Warrior
- Demonology Warlock
- Destruction Warlock
- Arcane Mage
- Devastation Evoker
Warlocks remain extremely strong, but Destruction loses the unique advantage that pushes it to first on Entombed Sentinels. When everybody can reach both targets comfortably, Havoc is still useful without being quite so hilariously appropriate.
That comparison demonstrates why the Entombed Sentinels result is more interesting than simply saying “Warlock damage is high.”
The class has multiple specs capable of exploiting different versions of multi-target combat.
Warlock May Be One of the Safest Raid Classes in Season 2
This is where the broader class value becomes compelling.
You do not need all three Warlock specs to be equally strong on every encounter. In fact, that would be rather suspicious.
What matters to a player choosing a class is whether at least one specialization is likely to have a useful niche. Season 2 Warlock currently has:
- Destruction dominating a spread-cleave Mythic encounter.
- Demonology performing exceptionally well across broader raid rankings.
- Affliction remaining highly competitive when multi-target pressure matters.
And because all three specs share the same character, a Warlock willing to switch specialization can adapt as the raid changes.
That flexibility becomes increasingly valuable now that the Venomous Abyss raid skip has become available and established guilds are beginning to focus more heavily on farm clears and targeted bosses. Progression eventually stops being about surviving whatever happens to be next and becomes much more about optimizing particular encounters and loot targets.
Warlock currently gives raid groups plenty of options for doing exactly that.
Entombed Sentinels Is a Warlock Encounter
Week 2 data will not remain frozen forever. More guilds will kill the boss, players will gain additional gear, Demonology’s newly buffed tier set will become more common and Blizzard has already demonstrated that Season 2 tuning can change quickly.
But the current result is unusually clean.
Destruction #1.
Demonology #3.
Affliction #5.
On one Mythic boss.
Sometimes class balance is complicated.
Sometimes Blizzard puts two bosses several metres apart and every Warlock in the raid begins smiling.
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