Warlock in WoW Forever
Curses, demons and drain tanking. Trolls can now be Warlocks, Drain Hope became Wrack, and Incinerate, Pandemic and Fire and Brimstone fill out Destruction.
Specs
Wrack, Soul Siphon, Pandemic and Soul Harvest around Corruption, Bane of Agony and Siphon Life. One Curse and one Bane can be up at once now, so your debuff list is longer and Shadow Mastery feeds every Warlock in the raid.
Demonic Pact, Master Demonologist, Demonic Knowledge, Soul Link, Demonic Sacrifice and Demonic Brand. The pet is half your damage and half your defence; Soul Link makes you the hardest caster to kill.
Incinerate as the 31-point spell, Shadow and Flame, Fire and Brimstone, Conflagrate, Bane of Havoc for cleave, Ruin and Bane. Big crits, two schools of damage, and Bane of Havoc copies your damage to a second target.
Talent trees
Green dot = new in Forever. Click any talent for every rank. Open the interactive calculator to spend points.
What's different from Classic
- Bane of Agony. Curse of Agony, renamed. Bane of Doom the same. Banes and Curses are separate now, so you can run one of each.
Talent-by-talent: 17 new, 30 changed, 3 moved and 2 unchanged. Spellbook: 5 new spells and 36 with changed ranks or numbers. Full detail on the Warlock changes page.
New Warlock talents
- Soul Harvest (Affliction row 2, 2 ranks): Killing a non-trivial target afflicted by your Drain Soul increases your Mana regeneration by 100% for 10 sec and allows 100% of normal Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
- Improved Drains (Affliction row 2, 3 ranks): Increases Health drained, damage done, or Mana drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana spells by 20%.
- Pandemic (Affliction row 3, 3 ranks): Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Corruption, Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom, Drain Soul, Drain Life, Siphon Life, and Wrack spells by 100%.
- Malevolence (Affliction row 4, 5 ranks): Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 5%.
- Wrack (Affliction row 7, 1 rank): Tears the target apart from within, inflicting 86 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10% for 6 sec.
- Demonic Aegis (Demonology row 2, 2 ranks): Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Skin and Demon Armor spells by 30%.
- Demonic Energies (Demonology row 2, 2 ranks): You heal your pet for 15% of all spell damage you deal. When you gain Mana from Life Tap, your summoned demon gains 100% of the Mana you gain.
- Decimation (Demonology row 4, 2 ranks): Reduces the cooldown of your Soul Fire spell by 90%. When you cast Shadow Bolt or Searing Pain on an enemy below 35% health, they deal 6% increased damage, and for the next 10 sec your Soul Fire spell has its cast time reduced by 40% and costs no Soul Shards.
- Demonic Brand (Demonology row 4, 3 ranks): Your Searing Pain generates 50% less threat and brands the target for 10 sec. Your pet's next 6 attacks against the target deal 65 to 68 Fire or Shadow damage based on the pet. If Shadow damage is dealt, it has high threat.
- Improved Felhunter (Demonology row 5, 3 ranks): Increases the Attack Power reduction of your Felhunter's Tainted Blood, the healing of its Devour Magic, and the detection level of its Paranoia by 30%, and reduces the cooldown of its Spell Lock by 6 sec.
- Demonic Knowledge (Demonology row 5, 3 ranks): Increases your spell damage and your Demon pet's spell damage by up to 100% of your level while you have a summoned Demon pet active.
- Demonic Pact (Demonology row 7, 1 rank): Your Demonic Sacrifice effect is no longer cancelled by summoning a different Demon pet. Resummoning the sacrificed pet will still cancel the effect.
- Molten Skin (Destruction row 2, 5 ranks): Reduces all damage taken by 10%.
- Bane of Havoc (Destruction row 5, 1 rank): Afflicts the target for 5 min, causing 15% of all damage done by the Warlock to other targets to also be dealt to the cursed target. Bane of Havoc is limited to 1 target, and only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target.
- Fire and Brimstone (Destruction row 5, 3 ranks): Increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate spell by 25%.
- Shadow and Flame (Destruction row 6, 5 ranks): Hitting an enemy with Conflagrate increases all Shadow damage you deal by 20% for 20 sec, and hitting an enemy with Shadowburn increases all Fire damage you deal by 20% for 20 sec. In addition, Conflagrate has a 100% chance not to consume Immolate, and Shadowburn has a 100% chance to instantly refund a Soul Shard.
- Incinerate (Destruction row 7, 1 rank): Deals 99 to 113 Fire damage to your target and an additional 25% damage if the target is afflicted by Immolate.
31-point talents
- Wrack (Affliction): Tears the target apart from within, inflicting 86 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10% for 6 sec. · 200 Mana | 30 yd range | Channeled
- Demonic Pact (Demonology): Your Demonic Sacrifice effect is no longer cancelled by summoning a different Demon pet. Resummoning the sacrificed pet will still cancel the effect.
- Incinerate (Destruction): Deals 99 to 113 Fire damage to your target and an additional 25% damage if the target is afflicted by Immolate. · 205 Mana | 30 yd range | 2.5 sec cast
New spells in the Warlock book
- Curse of the Elements (Learned at level 20): Curses the target for 5 min, reducing Magic resistances by 30 and increases Magic damage taken by 4%. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
- Wrack (Learned at level 40): Tears the target apart from within, inflicting 86 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10% for 6 sec.
- Bane of Havoc (Learned at level 30): Afflicts the target for 5 min, causing 15% of all damage done by the Warlock to other targets to also be dealt to the cursed target. Bane of Havoc is limited to 1 target, and only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target.
- Conflagrate (Learned at level 25): Ignites a target that is already afflicted by your Immolate spell, dealing 88 to 110 Fire damage and consuming your Immolate effect.
- Incinerate (Learned at level 40): Deals 99 to 113 Fire damage to your target and an additional 25% damage if the target is afflicted by Immolate.
Questions players ask
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Snapshot 2026-11-03, client 1.60.1.70753. Talent trees and every rank's text from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70753. Some Warlock numbers follow Blizzard's development notes of 2 Nov 2026, ahead of any game data.