An Overview of Warlock Class Changes in the War Within Patch 11.0.2

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• Demon Skin now creates an absorb for 0.12/0.24% maximum health (was 0.2/0.4%) and may stack up to 5/10% of your maximum health (was 8/15%).
• Fixed an issue where Lifeblood was giving Leech higher than the intended amount.

• Unstable Affliction damage increased by 45%.
• Darkglare damage increased by 55%.
• Soul Rot damage increased by 60%.
• Agony damage increased by 40%.
• Malefic Rapture damage increased by 20%.
• Fixed an issue where Phantom Singularity was not correctly applying Infirmity to secondary targets.
• Fixed an issue where Tormented Crescendo was not correctly checking if the target had Unstable Affliction, Corruption/ Wither, and Agony.
• Fixed an issue where Cull the Weak was not correctly increasing the damage of the first 4 targets damaged by Malefic Rapture.

• Wild Imp damage increased by 15%.
• Demonbolt damage increased by 55%.
• Demonic Core now has a 50% chance to grant a Demonic Core when your summoned Dreadstalkers fade away (was 35%).
• Fixed an issue where Shadowtouched did not benefit Felseeker, Implosion, Gloom Slash, or Guillotine.
• Fixed an issue where Demonic Brutality would not increase the critical strike damage of your demons.
• Fixed an issue where Impending Doom would not summon a Wild Imp when Doom expires.

• Chaos Bolt damage increased by 40%.
• Shadowburn damage increased by 125%.
• Conflagrate damage increased by 25%.
• Incinerate damage decreased by 10%.
• Soul Fire damage increased by 5%.
• Channel Demonfire damage increased by 10%.
• Channel Demonfire damage dealt to nearby enemies increased by 25%.
• Summon Infernal damage increased by 10%.
• Rain of Fire damage increased by 35%.
• Pyrogenics now increases damage taken from your Fire spells by 3% (was 5%).
• Ritual of Ruin now activates after spending 20 Soul Shards (was 15).
• Avatar of Destruction now generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
• Summon Infernal now generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
• Fixed an issue where Power Overwhelming incorrectly gave 1% Mastery instead of 0.5% Mastery per stack.
• Fixed an issue where 3 stacks of Power Overwhelming were granted when using Rain of Fire while talented into Inferno.
• Fixed an issue where Rain of Fire could damage enemies through walls.

• Shadow Bolt damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Health Funnel’s effect is no longer increased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Dark Pact is no longer increased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Call Observer (PvP Talent) now deals 4% of its target’s maximum health (was 8%).
• Demonic Healthstones now heal for 20% (was 25%) of the Warlock’s maximum health in PvP combat.
• Soulburn: Healthstone’s health increase effect has been reduced to 15% (was 20%).

• Soul Swap is now a PvP Talent (was an Affliction talent) – Copies your damage over time effects and Haunt from the target, preserving their duration. Your next use of Soul Swap within 10 seconds will exhale a copy of the effects onto a new target.
• Soul Swap now has a 50% reduced global cooldown for its cast and exhale.
• Infirmity is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Soul Leech’s damage to absorb conversion is no longer increased by 50% in PvP combat.
• Drain Soul damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• The damage increase to Drain Soul damage against low health targets is now 50% in PvP combat (was 100%).
• Cunning Cruelty damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Unstable Affliction damage over time increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Unstable Affliction backlash damage increased by 10%.
• Rampant Afflictions now reduces the damage of Unstable Affliction by 60% (was 50%).
• Haunt damage increased by 150% in PvP combat.
• Wither damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
• Corruption damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
• Agony damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
• Phantom Singularity damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
• Rot and Decay now causes Shadow Bolt to increase the duration of damage over time effects by 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
• Fixed an issue that caused Haunt to deal no damage in PvP combat.

• Pact of the Ered'ruin’s Doom Bolt damage is no longer reduced by 60% in PvP combat.
• Demonic Strength is now reduced by 25% in PvP combat (was 50%).
• Dreadbite damage is no longer increased by 10% in PvP combat.
• Demonbolt damage is no longer increased by 20% in PvP combat.

• Conflagrate damage is no longer reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
• Incinerate damage is no longer reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
• Immolate damage is no longer reduced by 9% in PvP combat.
• Shadowburn damage is no longer increased by 10% in PvP combat.

You can find other Patch 11.0.2 class changes linked below.