WoW Forever Warlock Affliction Build
Looking for the best WoW Forever Warlock build for Leveling? This Affliction plan is a starting point for damage-over-time and drains. Compare its conditions and alternatives below; it is not a measured performance winner or a BiS gear list.
A leveling planning route for Warlock Affliction, built around Wrack, Siphon Life, Soul Siphon, Nightfall using the November 3 reviewed snapshot.
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
Read the core effects below for weapon, target, form and cooldown requirements. The exact current tooltips are shown at the selected ranks. Test the interaction in your intended activity before committing to a respec.
What you give up
This allocation commits to Affliction with support from Demonology; it cannot also reach every other capstone. Compare alternative plans and equipment requirements for your activity.
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, 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.
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 Harvest 2 / 2
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.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Improved Drains 3 / 3
Increases Health drained, damage done, or Mana drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana spells by 20%.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Fel Concentration 3 / 3
Gives your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
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, 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.
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 Harvest | 1 / 2 | Affliction |
| 21 | Soul Harvest | 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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