An Overview of Warlock Class Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch

Last updated on Jul 23, 2024 at 15:06 by Stan 2 comments

The following page covers the latest Warlock changes in World of Warcraft.

1.

Warlock Class Guides for the War Within Pre-Patch

If you are looking for Warlock class guides, please visit one of the guides linked below.

2.

General Warlock Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch

  • Lifeblood Icon Lifeblood now grants 4% Leech (was 7%).
  • All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated.
  • New Talent: Pact of Gluttony Icon Pact of Gluttony — Healthstones you conjure for yourself are now Demonic Healthstones and can be used multiple times in combat. Demonic Healthstones cannot be traded.
  • New Talent: Swift Artifice Icon Swift Artifice — Reduces the cast time of Soulstone and Create Healthstone by 50%.
  • New Talent: Demonic Tactics Icon Demonic Tactics — Increases melee and spell critical strike chance for you and your summoned demon by 2%.
  • Fel Pact Icon Fel Pact has been redesigned — Fel Domination cooldown is reduced by 60 seconds and is now a 1-point talent (was 2).
  • Fiendish Stride Icon Fiendish Stride has been redesigned — Reduces the damage dealt by Burning Rush by 10%. Burning Rush increases your movement speed by an additional 20%. Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
  • Soul Leech Icon Soul Leech is now a talent (was learned at level 10).
  • Mortal Coil Icon Mortal Coil has a new visual effect.
  • Soul Conduit Icon Soul Conduit is now a 1-point talent.
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Grimoire of Synergy Icon Grimoire of Synergy
    • Inquisitor's Gaze Icon Inquisitor's Gaze
    • Summon Soulkeeper Icon Summon Soulkeeper
    • Profane Bargain Icon Profane Bargain
3.

Affliction Warlock Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch

  • New Talent: Cunning Cruelty Icon Cunning CrueltyMalefic Rapture Icon Malefic Rapture has a chance to trigger a Shadow Bolt Volley, dealing damage to 5 enemies within 10 yards of your current target.
  • New Talent: Summoner's Embrace Icon Summoner's Embrace — Increases the damage dealt by your spells and your demon by 3%.
  • New Talent: Death's Embrace Icon Death's Embrace — Increases Drain Life healing by 30% while your health is at or below 35% health. Damage done by your Agony, Corruption, Unstable Affliction, and Malefic Rapture is increased by 10% when your target is at or below 35% health.
  • New Talent: Relinquished Icon RelinquishedAgony Icon Agony has 1.25 times the normal chance to generate a Soul Shard.
  • New Talent: Improved Shadow Bolt Icon Improved Shadow Bolt — The cast time of Shadow Bolt Icon Shadow Bolt is reduced by 15% and Shadow Bolt deals 20% increased damage.
  • New Talent: Volatile Agony Icon Volatile Agony — Refreshing Agony with less than 10 seconds remaining deals Shadow damage to its target and enemies within 10 yards.
  • New Talent: Summoner's Embrace Icon Summoner's Embrace — Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells and your demon by 3%.
  • New Talent: Malediction Icon Malediction — Increases the critical strike chance of Agony, Corruption Icon Corruption, and Unstable Affliction Icon Unstable Affliction by 10%.
  • New Talent: Contagion Icon Contagion — Critical Strike damage dealt by Agony, Corruption, and Unstable Affliction is increased by 20%.
  • New Talent: Cull the Weak Icon Cull the WeakMalefic Rapture Icon Malefic Rapture damage is increased by 8% for each enemy it hits, up to 5 enemies.
  • New Talent: Oblivion Icon Oblivion — Unleash wicked magic upon your target's soul, dealing Shadow damage over 3 seconds. Deals 10% increased damage, up to 30%, per damage over time effect you have active on the target. Costs 2 Soul Shards. 45 second cooldown.
  • New Talent: Improved Haunt Icon Improved Haunt — Increases the damage of Haunt Icon Haunt by 35% and reduces its cast time by 25%. Haunt now applies Shadow Embrace Icon Shadow Embrace.
  • New Talent: Malign Omen Icon Malign Omen — Casting Soul Rot Icon Soul Rot grants 3 applications of Malign Omen. Your next Malefic Rapture Icon Malefic Rapture deals 20% increased damage and extends the duration of your damage over time effects and Haunt by 2 seconds.
  • New Talent: Malefic Touch Icon Malefic Touch — Malefic Rapture deals an additional Shadowflame damage to each target it affects.
  • New Talent: Infirmity Icon Infirmity — The stack count of Agony is increased by 4 when applied by Vile Taint Icon Vile Taint. Enemies damaged by Phantom Singularity Icon Phantom Singularity take 10% increased damage from you for its duration.
  • New Talent: Improved Malefic Rapture Icon Improved Malefic Rapture — Reduces the cast time of Malefic Rapture by 10/20% and increases its damage by 5/10%.
  • New Talent: Ravenous Afflictions Icon Ravenous Afflictions — Critical strikes from your Agony, Corruption, and Unstable Affliction have a chance to grant Nightfall Icon Nightfall.
  • New Talent: Perpetual Unstability Icon Perpetual Unstability — The cast time of Unstable Affliction is reduced by 20%. Refreshing Unstable Affliction with 8 or less seconds remaining deals Shadow damage to its target.
  • Siphon Life Icon Siphon Life has been redesigned — Corruption deals 20% increased damage and heals you for 5% of the damage dealt.
  • Kindled Malice Icon Kindled Malice has been redesigned — Malefic Rapture damage increased by 4/8%. Corruption damage increased by 10/20%.
  • Malevolent Visionary Icon Malevolent Visionary has been redesigned — Increases the damage of your Summon Darkglare Icon Summon Darkglare by 70%. When Darkglare extends damage over time effects it also sears the target for Shadow damage.
  • Shadow Embrace Icon Shadow Embrace has been redesigned — Shadow Bolt/Drain Soul apply Shadow Embrace, increasing your damage dealt to the target by 4%/2% for 16 seconds. Stacks up to 2/4 times.
  • Malefic Rapture Icon Malefic Rapture is now learned at level 43 (was a talent) and deals Shadowflame damage.
  • Relinquished Icon Relinquished now causes Agony to have 1.10 times the chance to generate a Soul Shard (was 1.25).
  • Volatile Agony Icon Volatile Agony now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
  • Haunt Icon Haunt damage increased by 230%. This change does not affect PvP.
  • Dragonflight Season 4 class set bonuses have been updated to the Dragonflight Season 1 class set bonuses:
    • 2 Set Bonus — When Agony grants you a Soul Shard, you have a chance to gain Cruel Inspiration, increasing your haste by 12% for 6 seconds.
    • 4 Set Bonus — Cruel Inspiration also grants 2 charges of Cruel Epiphany, up to 5 charges. Each charge of Cruel Epiphany increases the damage of your next Malefic Rapture or Seed of Corruption Icon Seed of Corruption by 40%.
  • The following talents are now 1 point:
    • Xavius' Gambit Icon Xavius' Gambit
    • Focused Malignancy Icon Focused Malignancy
    • Withering Bolt Icon Withering Bolt
    • Improved Malefic Rapture Icon Improved Malefic Rapture
  • The following talents are now 2 points:
    • Withering Bolt Icon Withering Bolt
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Pandemic Invocation Icon Pandemic Invocation
    • Sow the Seeds Icon Sow the Seeds
    • Soul Swap Icon Soul Swap
    • Doom Blossom Icon Doom Blossom
    • Dread Touch Icon Dread Touch
    • Soul Flame Icon Soul Flame
    • Agonizing Corruption Icon Agonizing Corruption
    • Seized Vitality Icon Seized Vitality
    • Soul-Eater's Gluttony Icon Soul-Eater's Gluttony
    • Grand Warlock's Design Icon Grand Warlock's Design
    • Grim Reach Icon Grim Reach
    • Haunted Soul Icon Haunted Soul
    • Inevitable Demise Icon Inevitable Demise
    • Empowered Unstable Affliction Icon Empowered Unstable Affliction
4.

Demonology Warlock Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch

  • New Talent: Summon Shadowcaster Icon Summon Shadowcaster — Increases the damage of Hand of Gul'dan Icon Hand of Gul'dan by 20% and Demonbolt Icon Demonbolt by 10%.
  • New Talent: Pact of the Ered'ruin Icon Pact of the Ered'ruin — When Doom Icon Doom expires, you have a chance to summon a Doomguard that casts 5 Doom Bolts before departing. Each Doom Bolt deals Shadow damage.
  • New Talent: Mark of Shatug Icon Mark of Shatug — Your Summon Vilefiend Icon Summon Vilefiend becomes Summon Gloomhound and learns the following ability: Gloom Slash – Tooth and claw are drenched in malignant shadow magic, causing the Gloomhound’s melee attacks to deal Shadow damage over 6 seconds. If this effect is reapplied, any remaining damage will be added to the new Gloom Slash.
  • New Talent: Flametouched Icon Flametouched — Increases the attack speed of your Dreadstalkers by 20% and their critical strike chance by 15%.
  • New Talent: Rune of Shadows Icon Rune of Shadows — Increases all damage done by your pet by 4%. Reduces the cast time of Shadow Bolt by 25% and increases its damage by 40%.
  • New Talent: Demonic Brutality Icon Demonic Brutality — Critical strikes from your spells and your demons deal 4% increased damage.
  • New Talent: Fiendish Prowess Icon Fiendish Prowess — Increases the attack speed of your primary demon by 25%.
  • New Talent: Improved Demonic Tactics Icon Improved Demonic Tactics — Increases your primary Felguard’s critical strike chance equal to 30% of your critical strike chance.
  • New Talent: Mark of F'harg Icon Mark of F'harg — Your Summon Vilefiend becomes Summon Charhound and learns the following ability: Infernal Presence – Cloaked in the ever-burning flames of the abyss, dealing Fire damage to enemies within 10 yards every 1 second.
  • New Talent: Shadowtouched Icon Shadowtouched — Wicked Maw causes the target to take 20% additional Shadow damage from your demons.
  • New Talent: Foul Mouth Icon Foul Mouth — Increases Vilefiend damage by 20% and your Vilefiend’s Bile Spit now applies Wicked Maw.
  • New Talent: The Houndmaster's Gambit Icon The Houndmaster's Gambit — Your Dreadstalkers deal 50% increased damage while your Vilefiend is active.
  • New Talent: Blood Invocation Icon Blood Invocation — Power Siphon increases the damage of Demonbolt by an additional 25%.
  • New Talent: Fiendish Oblation Icon Fiendish Oblation — Damage dealt by Grimoire: Felguard Icon Grimoire: Felguard is increased by an additional 10% and you gain a Demonic Core when Grimoire: Felguard ends.
  • New Talent: Doom Eternal Icon Doom Eternal — Demonic Cores reduce the duration of Doom by an additional 2 seconds.
  • New Talent: Impending Doom Icon Impending Doom — Increases the damage of Doom by 30% and Doom summons 1 Wild Imp when it expires.
  • Doom Icon Doom is now passive and has been redesigned — When Demonbolt Icon Demonbolt consumes a Demonic Core it inflicts impending doom upon the target, dealing Shadow damage to enemies within 10 yards of its target after 20 seconds. Damage is reduced beyond 8 targets. Consuming a Demonic Core reduces the duration of Doom by 2 seconds.
  • Fel Invocation Icon Fel Invocation has been redesigned — Soul Strike Icon Soul Strike deals 20% increased damage and generates a Soul Shard.
  • You now have a 35% chance to generate a Demonic Core from your summoned Dreadstalkers when they fade (was 100% chance).
  • Summon Vilefiend cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 45 seconds).
  • Summon Summon Demonic Tyrant Icon Summon Demonic Tyrant cooldown reduced to 1 minute (was 1 minute and 30 seconds).
  • Your Felguard now charges its target when using Soul Strike.
  • The Houndmaster's Stratagem Icon The Houndmaster's Stratagem has been renamed to Wicked Maw and its icon has been updated.
  • Dread Calling Icon Dread Calling and Grimoire: Felguard icons have been updated.
  • Dragonflight Season 4 class set bonuses have been updated to the Dragonflight Season 1 class set bonuses:
    • 2 Set Bonus — Demonbolt Icon Demonbolt and Felstorm Icon Felstorm damage increased by 20%.
    • 4 Set Bonus — Demonbolt Icon Demonbolt has a chance to make your next Hand of Gul'dan Icon Hand of Gul'dan instant and deal 150% increased damage.
  • The following talents are now 1 point:
    • Imp Gang Boss Icon Imp Gang Boss
    • Umbral Blaze Icon Umbral Blaze
    • Pact of the Imp Mother Icon Pact of the Imp Mother
    • Dread Calling Icon Dread Calling
    • Demonic Brutality Icon Demonic Brutality
    • Flametouched Icon Flametouched
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Demonic Knowledge Icon Demonic Knowledge
    • Nether Portal Icon Nether Portal
    • Ner'zhul's Volition Icon Ner'zhul's Volition
    • Gul'dan's Ambition Icon Gul'dan's Ambition
    • Stolen Power Icon Stolen Power
    • Heavy Handed Icon Heavy Handed
    • Fiendish Prowess Icon Fiendish Prowess
    • Shadow's Bite Icon Shadow's Bite
    • Infernal Command Icon Infernal Command
    • Fel and Steel Icon Fel and Steel
    • Summon Shadowcaster Icon Summon Shadowcaster
    • Malefic Impact Icon Malefic Impact
    • Cavitation Icon Cavitation
    • Grand Warlock's Design Icon Grand Warlock's Design
5.

Destruction Warlock Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch

  • New Talent: Devastation Icon Devastation — Increases the Critical Strike chance of your Destruction spells by 5%.
  • New Talent: Emberstorm Icon Emberstorm — Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 2/4% and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate Icon Incinerate spell by 10/20%.
  • New Talent: Decimating Bolt Icon Decimating Bolt — Hurl bolts of decimating magic at your target, dealing Shadow damage and increase the damage of your next 3 Incinerates by 40%. Decimating Bolt’s damage, and the bonus to Incinerate both increase as your target’s health decreases.
  • New Talent: Summoner's Embrace Icon Summoner's Embrace — Increases the damage dealt by your spells and your demon by 3%.
  • New Talent: Indiscriminate Flames Icon Indiscriminate Flames — Backdraft increases the damage of your next Chaos Bolt Icon Chaos Bolt by 5% or increases the critical strike chance of your next Incinerate or Soul Fire Icon Soul Fire by 35%.
  • New Talent: Blistering Atrophy Icon Blistering Atrophy — Increases the damage of Shadowburn Icon Shadowburn by 20%. Shadowburn always critically strikes a target that is at or below 30% health.
  • New Talent: Fiendish Cruelty Icon Fiendish Cruelty — When Shadowburn fails to kill a target that is at or below 30% health, its cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Demonfire Mastery Icon Demonfire Mastery — Increases the damage of Channel Demonfire Icon Channel Demonfire by 30% and it deals damage 35% faster.
  • New Talent: Improved Chaos Bolt Icon Improved Chaos Bolt — Increases the damage of Chaos Bolt by 10% and reduces its cast time by 0.5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Avatar of Destruction Icon Avatar of Destruction — Consuming Ritual of Ruin Icon Ritual of Ruin summons an Overfiend for 8 seconds. Overfiend generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 0.5 seconds and casts Chaos Bolt at its summoner’s target, dealing Chaos damage.
  • New Talent: Dimension Ripper Icon Dimension Ripper — Incinerate has a chance to tear open a Dimensional Rift Icon Dimensional Rift or recharge Dimensional Rift if learned.
  • New Talent: Flame Rift Icon Flame Rift — Dimensional Rift can now summon a powerful Flame Rift.
  • New Talent: Lessons of Space-Time Icon Lessons of Space-Time — While you have a Dimensional Rift open, all of your damage is increased by 5%.
  • New Talent: Unstable Rifts Icon Unstable Rifts — Bolts from Dimensional Rift deal 25% of damage dealt to nearby enemies as Fire damage.
  • Ruin Icon Ruin has been redesigned — Increases the Critical Strike damage of your Destruction spells by 5/10%.
  • Inferno Icon Inferno has been redesigned — Rain of Fire Icon Rain of Fire damage is increased by 20% and its Soul Shard cost is reduced by 1.
  • Decimation Icon Decimation has been redesigned — Your critical strikes have a chance to reset the cooldown of Soul Fire and reduce the cast time of your next Soul Fire by 80%.
  • Chaos Incarnate Icon Chaos Incarnate has been redesigned — Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, and Shadowburn always gain at least 70% of the maximum benefit from your Mastery: Chaotic Energies.
  • Scalding Flames Icon Scalding Flames has been redesigned — Increases the damage of Immolate Icon Immolate by 25% and its duration by 3 seconds.
  • Chaos Bolt Icon Chaos Bolt is now learned at level 10 (was a talent).
  • The cooldown of Summon Infernal Icon Summon Infernal is now 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
  • Raging Demonfire Icon Raging Demonfire now extends Immolate by 0.5 seconds (was 0.2 seconds).
  • Chaos Bolts cast by Summon Overfiend Icon Summon Overfiend no longer gains modifiers active on its summoner.
  • The tooltip of Summon Overfiend has been updated — Generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 0.5 seconds and casts Chaos Bolt at 80% effectiveness at its summoner’s target.
  • The visual for casting Dimensional Rift has been updated.
  • The following talents are now 1 point:
    • Burn to Ashes Icon Burn to Ashes
    • Master Ritualist Icon Master Ritualist
    • Power Overwhelming Icon Power Overwhelming
    • Infernal Brand Icon Infernal Brand
    • Crashing Chaos Icon Crashing Chaos
    • Ashen Remains Icon Ashen Remains
    • Eradication Icon Eradication
    • Conflagration of Chaos Icon Conflagration of Chaos
    • Ruin Icon Ruin
    • Scalding Flames Icon Scalding Flames
    • Fire and Brimstone Icon Fire and Brimstone
    • Rolling Havoc Icon Rolling Havoc
    • Raging Demonfire Icon Raging Demonfire
    • Flashpoint Icon Flashpoint
    • Emberstorm Icon Emberstorm
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Avatar of Destruction Icon Avatar of Destruction
    • Chaosbringer Icon Chaosbringer
    • Pandemonium Icon Pandemonium
    • Cry Havoc Icon Cry Havoc
    • Improved Immolate Icon Improved Immolate
    • Decimating Bolt Icon Decimating Bolt
    • Grand Warlock's Design Icon Grand Warlock's Design
    • Flame Rift Icon Flame Rift
    • Lessons of Space-Time Icon Lessons of Space-Time
    • Unstable Rifts Icon Unstable Rifts
    • Infernal Brand Icon Infernal Brand
6.

Warlock PvP Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch

  • Call Fel Lord Icon Call Fel Lord damage increased by 80%.
  • Fel Obelisk Icon Fel Obelisk (PvP Talent) has been removed.
7.

More War Within Pre-Patch Class Changes

You can find other War Within Pre-Patch class changes linked below.

8.

Changelog

  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for the War Within pre-patch.
  • 06 May 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.7.
  • 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 13 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 24 Oct. 2023: Page added.
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