The retained client read has six new Affliction talents, ten reworked talents, and one unchanged against Classic Era 1.15.9.69722. Wrack occupies the reported 31-point row; Blizzard's September 24 Warlock notes correct Life Tap and Voidwalker Sacrifice but do not publish Affliction rank tables.
Affliction in Forever
The current client read lists 17 Affliction talents: six new, ten reworked, and one unchanged from Classic Era. Wrack is the reported 31-point capstone.
In tree order. Each talent shows its Forever text at full rank beside Classic Era's, and the first rank that differs when full rank reads the same.
Row 1 open from the first point
Improved Life Tap
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 2/2
Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 20%.
Suppression
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Improves your chance to hit by 5% and reduces all threat you generate by 20%.
Classic, 5/5
Reduces the chance for enemies to resist your Affliction spells by 10%.
Improved Corruption
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
Classic, 5/5
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec.
Row 2 5 points in Affliction
Malediction
New
Forever, 5/5
Increases all periodic damage done by your Warlock spells by 5%.
Soul Harvesting
New
Forever, 2/2
You gain Soul Harvest for 10 sec if a victim is killed while afflicted with your Drain Soul. Soul Harvest allows your Mana to regenerate at 100% of normal speed while you are casting spells, and grants a 100% increase to your Mana regeneration.
Improved Drains
New
Forever, 3/3
Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
Row 3 10 points in Affliction
Improved Bane of Agony
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 10%.
Classic as Improved Curse of Agony, 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 6%.
Fel Concentration
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, or Wrack spells.
Classic, 5/5
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling the Drain Life, Drain Mana, or Drain Soul spell.
Amplify Curse
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Bane of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
Classic, 1/1
Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Curse of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
Instant · 3 min cooldown
Pandemic
New
Forever, 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 4 15 points in Affliction
Malevolence
New
Forever, 5/5
Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 5%.
Nightfall
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
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%.
Classic, 2/2
Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Curse of Exhaustion
Reworked
Forever, 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.
Classic, 1/1
Reduces the target's movement speed by 10% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
Requires 1 point in Amplify Curse · 8% of base mana · 30 yd range · Instant
Row 5 20 points in Affliction
Siphon Life
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Classic, 1/1
Transfers 15 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
150 Mana · 30 yd range · Instant
Soul Siphon
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
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%.
Classic as Improved Drain Life, 5/5
Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 10%.
Row 6 25 points in Affliction
Shadow Mastery
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 5%.
Classic, 5/5
Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 10%.
Row 7 30 points in Affliction
Wrack
New
Forever, 1/1
Tears the target apart from within, dealing 36 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing the damage they take from your other Shadow damage over time effects by 10%. Lasts 6 sec.
Requires 1 point in Siphon Life · 200 Mana · 30 yd range · Instant
Every fact, with its source
2 more facts, checked Sep 27, 2026; 1 from Blizzard. The 2 headline changes are above. The tag says how sure each one is.
September 24 Warlock notesLife Tap's tooltip now shows the correct Life converted and says it scales only with Spirit; Voidwalker Sacrifice scales with 10% of the Warlock's spell healingChangedConfirmedBlizzard forums · Sept 24 beta notes
TalentsNames, positions, ranks and text from the community WoW Forever Talents dataset, read from WoW Forever beta client build 1.60.1.70009. Reported
Classic EraThe comparison text comes from Classic Era client build 1.15.9.69722, in the same dataset. Unchanged means the same text as that client, not a Blizzard statement.
