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Warlock talents

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The Warlock's three talent trees in WoW Forever — Affliction, Demonology, and Destruction — as the game client draws them, every talent rank by rank. Choose a level, spend your points and share the plan as a link.

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Warlock: what changes from Classic

Read from both game clients, WoW Forever (build 1.60.1.70245) against Classic Era (build 1.15.9.70003): 18 new talents, 33 changed, 16 Classic talents gone.

New in WoW Forever

Affliction

Malediction
Increases all periodic damage done by your Warlock spells by 5%.
Soul Harvest
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
Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
Pandemic
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
Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 5%.
Wrack
Tears the target apart from within, inflicting 36 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10% for 6 sec.

Demonology

Demonic Aegis
Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Skin and Demon Armor spells by 30%.
Demonic Energies
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
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
Improved Felhunter
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
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
Your Demonic Sacrifice effect is no longer cancelled by summoning a different Demon pet. Resummoning the sacrificed pet will still cancel the effect.

Destruction

Molten Skin
Reduces all damage taken by 10%.
Bane of Havoc
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
Increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate spell by 25%.
Shadow and Flame
Hitting an enemy with Conflagrate increases all Shadow damage you deal by 10% for 20 sec, and hitting an enemy with Shadowburn increases all Fire damage you deal by 10% 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
Deals 90 to 104 Fire damage to your target and an additional 25% damage if the target is afflicted by Immolate.

Changed since Classic

Affliction

Improved Life Tap
New place in the tree
Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 20%.
Suppression
New place in the treeNew values
Improves your chance to hit by 5% and reduces all threat you generate by 20%.
In Classic: Reduces the chance for enemies to resist your Affliction spells by 10%.
Improved Corruption
New place in the treeNew values
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
In Classic: Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec.
Amplify Curse
New place in the treeDescription changed
Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Bane of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
In Classic: Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Curse of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
Improved Bane of Agony
New place in the tree3 → 2 ranksNew values
Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 10%.
In Classic: Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 6%.
Fel Concentration
New place in the tree5 → 3 ranksDescription changed
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
In Classic: Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling the Drain Life, Drain Mana, or Drain Soul spell.
Nightfall
New place in the treeDescription changed
Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
In Classic: Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Curse of Exhaustion
New place in the treeNew values
Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
In Classic: Reduces the target's movement speed by 10% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
Siphon Life
New place in the treeNew values
Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
In Classic: Transfers 15 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Soul Siphon
New place in the tree5 → 3 ranksNew values
Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 12% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 36%.
In Classic: Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 10%.
Shadow Mastery
New place in the treeNew values
Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 5%.
In Classic: Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 10%.

Demonology

Improved Health Funnel
New values
Increases the amount of health transferred by your Health Funnel spell by 40%, reduces its health cost by 30%, and reduces all threat your Health Funnel generates by 100%. Allows Health Funnel to be used regardless of your demon's health.
In Classic: Increases the amount of Health transferred by your Health Funnel spell by 20%.
Improved Imp
New place in the treeNew values
Increases the damage of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 30% and the effect of its Fire Shield spell by 30%.
In Classic: Increases the effect of your Imp's Firebolt, Fire Shield, and Blood Pact spells by 30%.
Demonic Embrace
New place in the treeNew values
Increases your total Stamina by 15%.
In Classic: Increases your total Stamina by 15% but reduces your total Spirit by 5%.
Unholy Power
New place in the treeNew values
Increases all damage done by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter pets by 10%.
In Classic: Increases the damage done by your Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter's melee attacks by 20%.
Improved Voidwalker
New place in the tree
Increases the effectiveness of your Voidwalker's Torment, Consume Shadows, Sacrifice, and Suffering spells by 30%.
Fel Vitality
New place in the tree5 → 3 ranksNew values
Increases the maximum health and Mana of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter by 15%, and increases your maximum Mana by 15%.
In Classic: Increases the maximum Mana of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter by 15%.
Improved Sayaad
New place in the tree
Increases the effect of your Succubus' and Incubus' Lash of Pain and Soothing Kiss spells by 30%, and increases the duration of your Succubus' and Incubus' Seduction and Lesser Invisibility spells by 30%.
Demonic Sacrifice
New values
When activated, sacrifices your summoned Demon to enhance the opposing aspect of your power, granting you an effect that lasts 2 hrs. The effect is canceled if any Demon is summoned. Imp: Increases your Shadow damage by 15%. Voidwalker: Restores 2% of your total Mana every 4 sec. Succubus/Incubus: Increases your Fire damage by 15%. Felhunter: Restores 3% of your total Health every 4 sec.
In Classic: When activated, sacrifices your summoned demon to grant you an effect that lasts 30 min. The effect is canceled if any Demon is summoned. Imp: Increases your Fire damage by 15%. Voidwalker: Restores 3% of total Health every 4 sec. Succubus/Incubus: Increases your Shadow damage by 15%. Felhunter: Restores 2% of total Mana every 4 sec.
Master Summoner
New place in the tree
Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter Summoning spells by 4 sec and the Mana cost by 40%.
Fel Domination
New place in the tree
Your next Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, or Felhunter Summon spell has its casting time reduced by 5.5 sec and its Mana cost reduced by 50%.
Master Demonologist
New place in the treeNew values
Grants both the Warlock and the summoned demon an effect as long as that demon is active. Imp - Increases Fire damage done by 10%. Voidwalker - Reduces Physical damage taken by 10%. Succubus/Incubus - Increases Shadow damage done by 10%. Felhunter - Reduces Magic damage taken by 10%.
In Classic: Grants both the Warlock and the summoned demon an effect as long as that demon is active. Imp - Reduces threat caused by 20%. Voidwalker - Reduces physical damage taken by 10%. Succubus/Incubus - Increases all damage caused by 10%. Felhunter - Increases all resistances by 1 per level.

Destruction

Destructive Reach
New place in the treeDescription changed
Increases the range of your damaging spells by 20%.
In Classic: Increases the range of your Destruction spells by 20%.
Improved Shadow Bolt
New place in the treeNew values
Your Shadow Bolt critical strikes increase Shadow damage taken by the target from your attacks by 20% for 12 sec.
In Classic: Your Shadow Bolt critical strikes increase Shadow damage dealt to the target by 20% until 4 non-periodic damage sources are applied. Effect lasts a maximum of 12 sec.
Bane
New place in the treeDescription changed
Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.
In Classic: Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.
Cataclysm
New place in the tree5 → 3 ranksNew values
Reduces the Mana cost of your Destruction spells by 10%.
In Classic: Reduces the Mana cost of your Destruction spells by 5%.
Aftermath
New place in the treeNew values
Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 50% and your Conflagrate spell has a 100% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.
In Classic: Gives your Destruction spells a 10% chance to daze the target for 5 sec.
Ruin
New place in the tree1 → 5 ranks
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
In Classic: Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
Shadowburn
New place in the treeNew values
Instantly blasts the target for 62 to 70 Shadow damage. If a non-trivial target dies within 8 sec of being hit with Shadowburn, the caster gains a Soul Shard.
In Classic: Instantly blasts the target for 87 to 99 Shadow damage. If the target dies within 5 sec of Shadowburn, and yields experience or honor, the caster gains a Soul Shard.
Intensity
New place in the tree2 → 3 ranksDescription changed
Gives you a 70% chance to resist interruption caused by damage while casting or channeling any Destruction spell.
In Classic: Gives you a 70% chance to resist interruption caused by damage while channeling the Rain of Fire, Hellfire or Soul Fire spell.
Agonizing Flames
New place in the tree5 → 3 ranksNew values
Increases the critical strike chance of your Searing Pain spell by 10% and the damage done by all your Destruction spells by 10%.
In Classic: Increases the critical strike chance of your Searing Pain spell by 10%.
Conflagrate
New place in the treeNew values
Ignites a target that is already afflicted by your Immolate spell, dealing 84 to 106 Fire damage and consuming your Immolate effect.
In Classic: Ignites a target that is already afflicted by Immolate, dealing 240 to 306 Fire damage and consuming the Immolate spell.
Pyroclasm
New place in the treeNew values
Gives your Soul Fire spell a 26% chance to Stun the target for 3 sec, and your Rain of Fire and Hellfire spells a 26% chance over their duration to Stun targets they damage for 3 sec.
In Classic: Gives your Rain of Fire, Hellfire, and Soul Fire spells a 26% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.

Classic talents gone

Improved Curse of Weakness
Affliction
Increases the effect of your Curse of Weakness by 20%.
Improved Drain Soul
Affliction
Gives you a 100% chance to get a 100% increase to your Mana regeneration for 10 sec if the target is killed by you while you drain its soul. In addition your Mana may continue to regenerate while casting at 50% of normal.
Grim Reach
Affliction
Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 20%.
Improved Drain Mana
Affliction
Causes 30% of the Mana drained by your Drain Mana spell to damage the opponent.
Improved Curse of Exhaustion
Affliction
Increases the speed reduction of your Curse of Exhaustion by 20%.
Dark Pact
Affliction
Drains 150 of your pet's Mana, returning 100% to you.
Improved Healthstone
Demonology
Increases the amount of Health restored by your Healthstone by 20%.
Fel Stamina
Demonology
Increases the maximum Health of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter by 15%.
Improved Subjugate Demon
Demonology
Reduces the Attack Speed and Casting Speed penalty of your Subjugate Demon spell by 10% and reduces the resist chance by 10%.
Improved Firestone
Demonology
Increases the bonus Fire damage from Firestones and the Firestone effect by 30%.
Improved Spellstone
Demonology
Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Spellstone by 30%.
Improved Firebolt
Destruction
Reduces the casting time of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 1 sec.
Improved Lash of Pain
Destruction
Reduces the cooldown of your Succubus' and Incubus' Lash of Pain spell by 6 sec.
Devastation
Destruction
Increases the critical strike chance of your Destruction spells by 5%.
Improved Immolate
Destruction
Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 25%.
Emberstorm
Destruction
Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 10%.

Class spells: Warlock Talent changes for all 9 classes

Every talent, at full rank

Affliction

Improved Life Tap 2 ranksChanged: Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 20%.
Suppression 5 ranksChanged: Improves your chance to hit by 5% and reduces all threat you generate by 20%.
Improved Corruption 5 ranksChanged: Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
Malediction 5 ranksNew: Increases all periodic damage done by your Warlock spells by 5%.
Soul Harvest 2 ranksNew: 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 3 ranksNew: Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
Amplify Curse 1 rankChanged: Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Bane of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
Improved Bane of Agony 2 ranksChanged: Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 10%.
Fel Concentration 3 ranksChanged: Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
Pandemic 3 ranksNew: 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 5 ranksNew: Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 5%.
Nightfall 2 ranksChanged: Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Curse of Exhaustion 1 rankChanged: Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
Siphon Life 1 rankChanged: Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Soul Siphon 3 ranksChanged: Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 12% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 36%.
Shadow Mastery 5 ranksChanged: Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 5%.
Wrack 1 rankNew: Tears the target apart from within, inflicting 36 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10% for 6 sec.

Demonology

Improved Health Funnel 2 ranksChanged: Increases the amount of health transferred by your Health Funnel spell by 40%, reduces its health cost by 30%, and reduces all threat your Health Funnel generates by 100%. Allows Health Funnel to be used regardless of your demon's health.
Improved Imp 3 ranksChanged: Increases the damage of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 30% and the effect of its Fire Shield spell by 30%.
Demonic Embrace 5 ranksChanged: Increases your total Stamina by 15%.
Unholy Power 5 ranksChanged: Increases all damage done by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter pets by 10%.
Demonic Aegis 2 ranksNew: Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Skin and Demon Armor spells by 30%.
Improved Voidwalker 3 ranksChanged: Increases the effectiveness of your Voidwalker's Torment, Consume Shadows, Sacrifice, and Suffering spells by 30%.
Fel Vitality 3 ranksChanged: Increases the maximum health and Mana of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter by 15%, and increases your maximum Mana by 15%.
Demonic Energies 2 ranksNew: 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.
Improved Sayaad 3 ranksChanged: Increases the effect of your Succubus' and Incubus' Lash of Pain and Soothing Kiss spells by 30%, and increases the duration of your Succubus' and Incubus' Seduction and Lesser Invisibility spells by 30%.
Demonic Sacrifice 1 rankChanged: When activated, sacrifices your summoned Demon to enhance the opposing aspect of your power, granting you an effect that lasts 2 hrs. The effect is canceled if any Demon is summoned. Imp: Increases your Shadow damage by 15%. Voidwalker: Restores 2% of your total Mana every 4 sec. Succubus/Incubus: Increases your Fire damage by 15%. Felhunter: Restores 3% of your total Health every 4 sec.
Master Summoner 2 ranksChanged: Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter Summoning spells by 4 sec and the Mana cost by 40%.
Decimation 2 ranksNew: 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.
Fel Domination 1 rankChanged: Your next Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, or Felhunter Summon spell has its casting time reduced by 5.5 sec and its Mana cost reduced by 50%.
Demonic Brand 3 ranksNew: This rank's text could not be shown.
Improved Felhunter 3 ranksNew: 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.
Soul Link 1 rank: When active, 30% of all damage taken by the caster is taken by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, or Felhunter Demon instead. In addition, both the Demon and the master will inflict 3% more damage. Lasts as long as the Demon is active.
Demonic Knowledge 3 ranksNew: 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.
Master Demonologist 5 ranksChanged: Grants both the Warlock and the summoned demon an effect as long as that demon is active. Imp - Increases Fire damage done by 10%. Voidwalker - Reduces Physical damage taken by 10%. Succubus/Incubus - Increases Shadow damage done by 10%. Felhunter - Reduces Magic damage taken by 10%.
Demonic Pact 1 rankNew: Your Demonic Sacrifice effect is no longer cancelled by summoning a different Demon pet. Resummoning the sacrificed pet will still cancel the effect.

Destruction

Destructive Reach 2 ranksChanged: Increases the range of your damaging spells by 20%.
Improved Shadow Bolt 5 ranksChanged: Your Shadow Bolt critical strikes increase Shadow damage taken by the target from your attacks by 20% for 12 sec.
Bane 5 ranksChanged: Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.
Molten Skin 5 ranksNew: Reduces all damage taken by 10%.
Cataclysm 3 ranksChanged: Reduces the Mana cost of your Destruction spells by 10%.
Aftermath 5 ranksChanged: Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 50% and your Conflagrate spell has a 100% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.
Ruin 5 ranksChanged: Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
Shadowburn 1 rankChanged: Instantly blasts the target for 62 to 70 Shadow damage. If a non-trivial target dies within 8 sec of being hit with Shadowburn, the caster gains a Soul Shard.
Intensity 3 ranksChanged: Gives you a 70% chance to resist interruption caused by damage while casting or channeling any Destruction spell.
Agonizing Flames 3 ranksChanged: Increases the critical strike chance of your Searing Pain spell by 10% and the damage done by all your Destruction spells by 10%.
Conflagrate 1 rankChanged: Ignites a target that is already afflicted by your Immolate spell, dealing 84 to 106 Fire damage and consuming your Immolate effect.
Pyroclasm 2 ranksChanged: Gives your Soul Fire spell a 26% chance to Stun the target for 3 sec, and your Rain of Fire and Hellfire spells a 26% chance over their duration to Stun targets they damage for 3 sec.
Bane of Havoc 1 rankNew: 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 3 ranksNew: Increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate spell by 25%.
Shadow and Flame 5 ranksNew: Hitting an enemy with Conflagrate increases all Shadow damage you deal by 10% for 20 sec, and hitting an enemy with Shadowburn increases all Fire damage you deal by 10% 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 1 rankNew: Deals 90 to 104 Fire damage to your target and an additional 25% damage if the target is afflicted by Immolate.

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