WoW Forever Warlock Guide: Talents, Leveling Gear and What Changed

Affliction: 8 new of 17 talents

• Malediction (row 2, 5 ranks): Increases all periodic damage done by your Warlock spells by 5%.
• Soul Harvest (row 2, 2 ranks): 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 (row 2, 3 ranks): Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
• Improved Bane of Agony (row 3, 2 ranks): Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 10%.
• Pandemic (row 3, 3 ranks): 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 (row 4, 5 ranks): Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 5%.
• Soul Siphon (row 5, 3 ranks): 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%.
• Wrack (row 7, 1 rank): 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.

No longer in the tree: Improved Curse of Weakness, Improved Drain Soul, Improved Drain Life, Improved Curse of Agony, Grim Reach, Improved Drain Mana, Improved Curse of Exhaustion and Dark Pact.

Demonology: 8 new of 19 talents

• Demonic Aegis (row 2, 2 ranks): Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Skin and Demon Armor spells by 30%.
• Fel Vitality (row 2, 3 ranks): 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 (row 2, 2 ranks): 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 (row 4, 2 ranks): 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 (row 4, 3 ranks): Your Searing Pain generates 50% less threat and brands the target for 10 sec. Your pet's next 6 attacks against the target deal ((51 + 14 + (0.078 * ((Shadow spell power)))) * (1 * 1 * 1)) to ((51 + 17 + (0.078 * ((Shadow spell power)))) * (1 * 1 * 1)) Fire or Shadow damage based on the pet. If Shadow damage is dealt, it has high threat.
• Improved Felhunter (row 5, 3 ranks): 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 (row 5, 3 ranks): 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 (row 7, 1 rank): Your Demonic Sacrifice effect is no longer cancelled by summoning a different Demon pet. Resummoning the sacrificed pet will still cancel the effect.

No longer in the tree: Improved Healthstone, Fel Intellect, Fel Stamina, Improved Subjugate Demon, Improved Firestone and Improved Spellstone.

Destruction: 6 new of 16 talents

• Molten Skin (row 2, 5 ranks): Reduces all damage taken by 10%.
• Agonizing Flames (row 4, 3 ranks): Increases the critical strike chance of your Searing Pain spell by 10% and the damage done by all your Destruction spells by 10%.
• Bane of Havoc (row 5, 1 rank): 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 (row 5, 3 ranks): Increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate spell by 25%.
• Shadow and Flame (row 6, 5 ranks): 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 (row 7, 1 rank): Deals 100 to 114 Fire damage to your target and an additional 25% damage if the target is afflicted by Immolate.

No longer in the tree: Improved Firebolt, Improved Lash of Pain, Devastation, Improved Searing Pain, Improved Immolate and Emberstorm.

Affliction

Demonology

Destruction