Affliction Warlock
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- 17talents
- 46talent ranks
- 63abilities
- 5new in Forever
- 7feed entries
Best Affliction talents, by published builds
Counted from published builds, not opinion. Plan yours in the Warlock talent calculator.
Affliction
18 builds · most published 21/21/9 ×7
100%
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6/2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 2/4/6/8/10%.
94%
Improves your chance to hit by 1/2/3/4/5% and reduces all threat you generate by 4/8/12/16/20%.
89%
Gives you a 23/47/70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
89%
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 33/67/100%.
89%
Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 2/4% 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%.
50%
Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.
50%
Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
39%
Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 10/20%.
39%
Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 5/10%.
71 of 89 published builds (80%) no longer fit build 1.60.1.70532 and are not counted.
Level 30 Affliction build
Beta cap 30 since 1 October 2026 (Blizzard). 21 talent points open tiers 1–5: 15 of 17 talents. Plan yours. Best in slot gear at level 30.
Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 10%.
Improves your chance to hit by 1% and reduces all threat you generate by 4%.
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.4 sec and increases the damage it deals by 2%.
Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 10%.
Killing a non-trivial target afflicted by your Drain Soul increases your Mana regeneration by 50% for 10 sec and allows 50% of normal Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 7%.
Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 5%.
Gives you a 23% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
Lasts 30 sec.
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 33%.
Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 1%.
Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 2% 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%.
Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 4% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%.
Talents
17changed in a build (7)
Improved Life Tap
Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 10%.
changed in 1.60.1.69913 Forever 1.60.1.69913 vs Era 1.15.9.70576: column 3 → 1; tier 2 → 1
Suppression
Improves your chance to hit by 1% and reduces all threat you generate by 4%.
Improved Corruption
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.4 sec and increases the damage it deals by 2%.
Grim Reach
Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 10%.
Soul Harvest
Killing a non-trivial target afflicted by your Drain Soul increases your Mana regeneration by 50% for 10 sec and allows 50% of normal Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
changed in 1.60.1.70170 Forever 1.60.1.70170 vs Forever 1.60.1.70124: name Soul Harvesting → Soul Harvest
Improved Drains
Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 7%.
Improved Bane of Agony
Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 5%.
changed in 1.60.1.69913 Forever 1.60.1.69913 vs Era 1.15.9.70576: name Improved Curse of Agony → Improved Bane of Agony; max rank 3 → 2
Fel Concentration
Gives you a 23% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
changed in 1.60.1.69913 Forever 1.60.1.69913 vs Era 1.15.9.70576: max rank 5 → 3
Amplify Curse
Lasts 30 sec.
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 33%.
Malevolence
Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 1%.
Nightfall
Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 2% 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
Requires 15 points in Affliction, Amplify Curse 1/1
Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
changed in 1.60.1.69913 Forever 1.60.1.69913 vs Era 1.15.9.70576: tier 5 → 4
Siphon Life
Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Soul Siphon
Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 4% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%.
changed in 1.60.1.69913 Forever 1.60.1.69913 vs Era 1.15.9.70576: column 4 → 3; name Improved Drain Life → Soul Siphon; max rank 5 → 3; tier 2 → 5
Shadow Mastery
Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 2%.
changed in 1.60.1.69913 Forever 1.60.1.69913 vs Era 1.15.9.70576: column 2 → 3; requires Siphon Life 1 → none
Wrack
Requires 30 points in Affliction, Siphon Life 1/1
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.
Abilities in this tree
63By learn level · new in Forever (5)
Cost 55 Mana
Cost 35 Mana
Cost 50 Mana
Cost 135 Mana
Cost 130 Mana
Cost 185 Mana
Cost 210 Mana
Cost 150 Mana · Cooldown 40 sec
Cost 90 Mana
Cost 130 Mana
Cost 170 Mana
Cost 110 Mana
Cost 290 Mana
Cost 300 Mana
Cost 310 Mana
Cost 200 Mana · Cooldown 40 sec
Cost 215 Mana
Every rank the build has is here. Beyond the beta's level 30 cap. It is in the beta build, nobody can play it yet, and it can change before launch (Blizzard, 1 October 2026).
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