Warlock

Overview

A caster who wields curses, drains and bound demons, and now deals competitive damage in every tree.

Warlocks stack curses and damage over time, drain life and mana, and fight alongside a demon pet. In WoW Forever, Curse of Agony and Curse of Doom become Banes (one per Warlock per target), pets scale with your stats, Life Tap scales with Spirit, and Drain Soul is guaranteed to give a Soul Shard after enough tries.

Specs

• AfflictionCaster DPS

  Damage over time and drains. Wrack at 31 points makes your other damage over time tick faster.

  Full build coming after launch
• DemonologyCaster DPS

  Empowered demons and Soul Fire. Demonic Sacrifice now lasts 2 hours, and Demonic Pact keeps it active when you swap pets.

  Full build coming after launch
• DestructionCaster DPS

  Fire and Shadow burst. Conflagrate at 16 points, Bane of Havoc at 21 and the new Incinerate at 31.

  Full build coming after launch

What changed from Classic

• New
  Banes replace two curses

  Curse of Agony and Curse of Doom are now Banes. Each Warlock can keep only one Bane on a target.

• Changed
  Curse of the Elements covers all magic

  It now boosts all magic damage taken. Curse of Shadows is removed.

• Changed
  Pets scale with you

  Demon pets now draw their stats from yours. Since November 2 they gain 2 health per point of your Stamina (was 7.5). On November 10 the Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus and Incubus got about 15% more base health.

• Changed
  Life Tap scales with Spirit

  And its tooltip shows the real mana amount.

• Changed
  Reliable Soul Shards

  Drain Soul can give a Soul Shard without a kill. On November 2 the chance of a shard from damage alone was reduced significantly.

• Changed
  Firestone and Spellstone are weapon imbues

  They stack with other enchantments. Firestone boosts Fire damage and crit; Spellstone boosts only Shadow damage, plus spell haste.

• New
  Wrack (Affliction, 31 points)

  A 6-second channel that deals Shadow damage every second. Since November 10, while you channel it, Corruption, Siphon Life and Bane of Agony tick 100% faster, and the time saved carries over. It no longer raises their damage.

• Changed
  Demonic Sacrifice lasts 2 hours (11 points)

  Each demon gives a different long buff: Imp for Shadow damage, Voidwalker for mana, Succubus or Incubus for Fire damage, Felhunter for health.

• New
  Demonic Pact (Demonology, 31 points)

  Keeps Demonic Sacrifice's buff when you summon a different demon.

• New
  Incinerate (Destruction, 31 points)

  A 2.5-second Fire spell that deals extra damage to targets with your Immolate.

• New
  Bane of Havoc (Destruction, 21 points)

  Sends 15% of the damage you deal to other targets onto the cursed enemy for 5 minutes.

• Changed
  Conflagrate and Curse of Exhaustion move

  Conflagrate is now the 16-point Destruction talent; Curse of Exhaustion the 16-point Affliction talent with a 30% slow.

• Removed
  Many minor talents

  Over a dozen small talents were removed or merged, including Improved Healthstone, Fel Intellect, Fel Stamina, Improved Firebolt, Improved Lash of Pain, Devastation and Emberstorm.

Abilities