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Warlock in WoW Forever: what the datamine says is coming

Warlock talent tree paintings from the WoW Forever client

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The WoW Forever client and Blizzard's posts show 37 new class items for Warlocks. We list them all and give our read on the class.

Speculation. This outlook is built from datamined WoW Forever client data (build 1.60.1.70862) and official Blizzard posts. Level 60 is the launch cap: everything here is playable, and Blizzard can still change it.

What Blizzard's notes changed

Kaivax posted these Warlock changes in WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated November 2 on 3 November 2026:

  • Spellstones now correctly only increase Shadow damage (was increasing Shadow and Fire damage).
  • Pets now gain 2 Health per point of Master’s Stamina (was 7.5 Health per point of Master’s Stamina).
  • Bane of Agony now correctly dynamically updates its damage.
  • Drain Soul: This chance for this spell to grant a Soul Shard on dealing damage (not a kill) has been reduced significantly.

Affliction

  • Amplify Curse now correctly affects Curse of Exhaustion and Bane of Agony.
  • Improved Drains: Now increases Drain Mana’s amount of Mana drained but no longer increases Wrack damage.
  • Wrack: Spell damage coefficient doubled, to match the expected coefficient per cast time of 0.286 per second. Base damage per second now increases with each level by 2.5. Base damage per second at level 60 effectively increased from 36 to 86.

Destruction

  • Shadow and Flame: The damage bonuses from this talent now increase Fire or Shadow damage by 4/8/12/16/20%, up from 2/4/6/8/10%.

Talent trees

Talents that are new in Forever, by tree:

Tuning signals in the spell data

In the client, 21 Warlock spell ranks have a different spell-power coefficient from Classic Era. The biggest changes:

Warlock-only gear that's new in Forever

Our read (speculation)

Troll Warlocks are one of Forever's new race and class combinations, but the biggest change is the split between Banes and Curses. The client's tooltips for Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom and the new Bane of Havoc talent each allow only one Bane per Warlock on a target, while Curse of the Elements, now trainable at 20, says the same about Curses. That suggests a Warlock could keep one of each on a target. Bane of Doom's spell-power coefficient also jumps from 1.0 to 4.0, the largest of the 21 Warlock coefficient changes, which could turn it from a niche pick into real damage on long fights.

Forever's talent trees reshape all three specs. Affliction gains Malediction, Improved Drains, Pandemic and Malevolence. Its tier 7 capstone at 40 is Wrack, a new Shadow spell that makes your other Shadow damage-over-time effects hit harder, and Nightfall, Soul Siphon, Improved Drains and Fel Concentration already name it. Demonology adds Demonic Energies, Demonic Aegis, Demonic Brand and Improved Felhunter, swaps Demonic Sacrifice's buffs so the Imp gives Shadow damage, and ends in Demonic Pact, which keeps a sacrifice buff when you summon a different demon. Destruction's new talents are Molten Skin, Fire and Brimstone, and Shadow and Flame.

Much of that arrives early. Demonic Sacrifice, Ruin and Shadowburn are open at 20, Conflagrate and Curse of Exhaustion at 25, and at 30 tier 5 brings Siphon Life, Soul Link, Demonic Knowledge and Bane of Havoc, alongside Hellfire from the trainer and Summon Felhunter, which Classic's The Binding quest taught. Incinerate, a former Season of Discovery rune, is now the tier 7 Destruction talent at 40, and the Bane talent already shortens its cast. Blizzard's 24 September notes had little for Warlocks: Life Tap's tooltip now says it scales with Spirit, and Voidwalker Sacrifice scales with 10% of spell healing.

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