Affliction Warlock Talents & Build – Raid and PvP for WoW Forever
Affliction Warlocks spread damage over time. Wrack tears the target apart and empowers your other Shadow damage-over-time spells, Pandemic lets them crit, Improved Drains increases the damage of your drain spells, and Shadow Mastery empowers all Shadow spells.
Talents, ranks and values come from the WoW Forever game files. Playstyle and stat tips are based on Classic experience; talents and details may differ in Forever.
Other specs: Demonology Warlock · Destruction Warlock
Last updated: beta, Oct 14, 2026. These builds are planned for the new WoW Forever talent trees and will be reviewed after launch.
Raid Build (PvE)
Affliction down to Wrack with Suppression for more hit chance, Improved Drains, Pandemic and Malevolence. Destruction offers Bane and Improved Shadow Bolt for stronger Shadow Bolts.
| Talent tree | Talents (rank) |
|---|---|
| Affliction35 | Suppression 5/5Improved Corruption 5/5Soul Harvest 2/2Improved Drains 3/3Pandemic 3/3Malevolence 5/5Nightfall 2/2Siphon Life 1/1Soul Siphon 3/3Shadow Mastery 5/5Wrack 1/1 |
| Destruction16 |
PvP Build
PvP build with Fel Concentration against interrupts, Improved Drains for stronger drain spells and Curse of Exhaustion to slow. Demonology offers Demonic Embrace for more Stamina, Improved Sayaad for a longer Seduction and Fel Domination for fast summoning.
| Talent tree | Talents (rank) |
|---|---|
| Affliction31 | Suppression 3/5Improved Corruption 5/5Soul Harvest 1/2Improved Drains 2/3Fel Concentration 3/3Amplify Curse 1/1Pandemic 1/3Malevolence 2/5Nightfall 2/2Curse of Exhaustion 1/1Siphon Life 1/1Soul Siphon 3/3Shadow Mastery 5/5Wrack 1/1 |
| Demonology20 | Demonic Embrace 5/5Unholy Power 4/5Demonic Aegis 2/2Fel Vitality 3/3Improved Sayaad 3/3Master Summoner 2/2Fel Domination 1/1 |
Playstyle and rotation
Keep Corruption, Bane of Agony and Siphon Life on the target. In Forever, Bane of Agony and Bane of Doom count as Banes, and only one can be active per target. Use Wrack on cooldown and fill with Shadow Bolt; if Nightfall makes it instant, cast it right away. Get mana back with Life Tap.
Stat priority
For Affliction Warlock, the key stats are spell hit up to the cap, spell damage and spell crit. Intellect gives mana and some crit chance, and Stamina mostly matters in PvP. This priority comes from Classic; stat weights in WoW Forever may differ.
FAQ
Affliction Warlock: What are the key talents?
Our raid build spends its points like this: Affliction 35 · Destruction 16. The key talents are Wrack, Shadow Mastery, Pandemic. Open the full build in the talent calculator to tweak it.
Affliction Warlock: Which build is best for PvP?
For PvP we recommend Affliction 31 · Demonology 20. Compared to the raid build, it focuses more on control and survivability. All talents are listed at the top.
Are the talents the same as in Classic?
Not quite. The talent trees on this page come from the WoW Forever game files: some talents are new, have moved or use different values than in Classic. Every build is checked against this data and spends exactly 51 points.