Warlock: Damage-over-time and drains
Pair damage-over-time effects with drains and Siphon Life, then reach Wrack. Demonology supports keeping a demon alongside this questing plan.
Editorial planning guide, grounded in the supplied beta talent descriptions. The allocation and point order have been checked for legal ranks and prerequisites. Combat performance has not been simulated or game-tested.
When to use this plan
Soul Siphon scales with the listed Affliction effects on the target and has a cap. Soul Harvesting needs its kill condition.
What you give up
The plan does not reach Soul Link or Incinerate. Its sustain-oriented choices do not establish a fastest-leveling claim.
Why these core choices?
Nightfall
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%.
Selected rank 2 of 2.Siphon Life
Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Selected rank 1 of 1.Soul Siphon
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%.
Selected rank 3 of 3.Wrack
Tears the target apart from within, dealing 36 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10%. Lasts 6 sec.
Selected rank 1 of 1. Requires Siphon Life.Complete allocation
All 17 selected talents are listed below. Expand any talent to see the exact supplied description at the rank used by this plan.
Affliction · 31 points
Suppression 5 / 5
Improves your chance to hit by 5% and reduces all threat you generate by 20%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Improved Corruption 5 / 5
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Soul Harvesting 2 / 2
You gain Soul Harvest for 10 sec if a victim is killed while afflicted with your Drain Soul. Soul Harvest allows your Mana to regenerate at 100% of normal speed while you are casting spells, and grants a 100% increase to your Mana regeneration.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Improved Drains 3 / 3
Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Fel Concentration 3 / 3
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.
Row 3. Read every rank →
Pandemic 3 / 3
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%.
Row 3. Read every rank →
Malevolence 3 / 5
Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 3%.
Row 4. Read every rank →
Nightfall 2 / 2 Core choice
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%.
Row 4. Read every rank →
Siphon Life 1 / 1 Core choice
Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
150 Mana | 30 yd range | Instant
Row 5. Read every rank →
Soul Siphon 3 / 3 Core choice
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%.
Row 5. Read every rank →
Wrack 1 / 1 Core choice
Tears the target apart from within, dealing 36 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10%. Lasts 6 sec.
200 Mana | 30 yd range | Channeled
Row 7 · Requires maximum Siphon Life. Read every rank →
Demonology · 20 points
Unholy Power 5 / 5
Increases all damage done by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter pets by 10%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Improved Voidwalker 3 / 3
Increases the effectiveness of your Voidwalker's Torment, Consume Shadows, Sacrifice, and Suffering spells by 30%.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Fel Vitality 3 / 3
Increases the maximum health and Mana of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter by 15%, and increases your maximum Mana by 15%.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Demonic Energies 2 / 2
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.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Master Summoner 2 / 2
Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter Summoning spells by 4 sec and the Mana cost by 40%.
Row 3. Read every rank →
Three valid adjustments
Each option below is a separate one-point change to the original plan. It preserves the point budget, row gates and prerequisites. Choose an effect you need; the options are not a damage ranking and should not be applied together without rechecking.
Master Summoner → Improved Health Funnel
Move one point: Master Summoner 2 → 1; Improved Health Funnel 0 → 1.
Effect after this change
Master Summoner: Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter Summoning spells by 2 sec and the Mana cost by 20%.
Improved Health Funnel: Increases the amount of health transferred by your Health Funnel spell by 20%, reduces its health cost by 15%, and reduces all threat your Health Funnel generates by 50%. Allows Health Funnel to be used regardless of your demon's health.
Master Summoner → Improved Imp
Move one point: Master Summoner 2 → 1; Improved Imp 0 → 1.
Effect after this change
Master Summoner: Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter Summoning spells by 2 sec and the Mana cost by 20%.
Improved Imp: Increases the damage of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 10% and the effect of its Fire Shield spell by 10%.
Master Summoner → Demonic Aegis
Move one point: Master Summoner 2 → 1; Demonic Aegis 0 → 1.
Effect after this change
Master Summoner: Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter Summoning spells by 2 sec and the Mana cost by 20%.
Demonic Aegis: Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Skin and Demon Armor spells by 15%.
Level-by-level point order
This route reaches the complete allocation without a respec. It follows this guide’s core choices and prerequisites, rather than claiming an optimal speed-leveling route. Talented changes the level when each point becomes available, not the 51-point limit.
First point at level 10; all 51 points at level 60.
Use a Talented rank your character has actually unlocked in the Legacy system. This control models its point timing, not the rest of your Legacy allocation.
Show all 51 steps
| Level | Add one point | New rank | Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Improved Corruption | 1 / 5 | Affliction |
| 11 | Improved Corruption | 2 / 5 | Affliction |
| 12 | Improved Corruption | 3 / 5 | Affliction |
| 13 | Improved Corruption | 4 / 5 | Affliction |
| 14 | Improved Corruption | 5 / 5 | Affliction |
| 15 | Suppression | 1 / 5 | Affliction |
| 16 | Suppression | 2 / 5 | Affliction |
| 17 | Suppression | 3 / 5 | Affliction |
| 18 | Suppression | 4 / 5 | Affliction |
| 19 | Suppression | 5 / 5 | Affliction |
| 20 | Soul Harvesting | 1 / 2 | Affliction |
| 21 | Soul Harvesting | 2 / 2 | Affliction |
| 22 | Improved Drains | 1 / 3 | Affliction |
| 23 | Improved Drains | 2 / 3 | Affliction |
| 24 | Improved Drains | 3 / 3 | Affliction |
| 25 | Nightfall | 1 / 2 | Affliction |
| 26 | Nightfall | 2 / 2 | Affliction |
| 27 | Fel Concentration | 1 / 3 | Affliction |
| 28 | Fel Concentration | 2 / 3 | Affliction |
| 29 | Fel Concentration | 3 / 3 | Affliction |
| 30 | Siphon Life | 1 / 1 | Affliction |
| 31 | Soul Siphon | 1 / 3 | Affliction |
| 32 | Soul Siphon | 2 / 3 | Affliction |
| 33 | Soul Siphon | 3 / 3 | Affliction |
| 34 | Pandemic | 1 / 3 | Affliction |
| 35 | Pandemic | 2 / 3 | Affliction |
| 36 | Pandemic | 3 / 3 | Affliction |
| 37 | Malevolence | 1 / 5 | Affliction |
| 38 | Malevolence | 2 / 5 | Affliction |
| 39 | Malevolence | 3 / 5 | Affliction |
| 40 | Wrack | 1 / 1 | Affliction |
| 41 | Demonic Embrace | 1 / 5 | Demonology |
| 42 | Demonic Embrace | 2 / 5 | Demonology |
| 43 | Demonic Embrace | 3 / 5 | Demonology |
| 44 | Demonic Embrace | 4 / 5 | Demonology |
| 45 | Demonic Embrace | 5 / 5 | Demonology |
| 46 | Unholy Power | 1 / 5 | Demonology |
| 47 | Unholy Power | 2 / 5 | Demonology |
| 48 | Unholy Power | 3 / 5 | Demonology |
| 49 | Unholy Power | 4 / 5 | Demonology |
| 50 | Unholy Power | 5 / 5 | Demonology |
| 51 | Fel Vitality | 1 / 3 | Demonology |
| 52 | Fel Vitality | 2 / 3 | Demonology |
| 53 | Fel Vitality | 3 / 3 | Demonology |
| 54 | Improved Voidwalker | 1 / 3 | Demonology |
| 55 | Improved Voidwalker | 2 / 3 | Demonology |
| 56 | Improved Voidwalker | 3 / 3 | Demonology |
| 57 | Demonic Energies | 1 / 2 | Demonology |
| 58 | Demonic Energies | 2 / 2 | Demonology |
| 59 | Master Summoner | 1 / 2 | Demonology |
| 60 | Master Summoner | 2 / 2 | Demonology |
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