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Affliction · Demonology · Destruction — 52 talents. Roles: Ranged DPS. Hover, focus or tap a talent for its tooltip; click to spend a point. Rows unlock after 5 points per row in that tree.

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Affliction17 talents · 49 ranks

Row/Col	Talent	Ranks	Effect	vs Classic
1/1	Improved Life Tap	2	Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 10/20%.	Moved Reported
1/2	Suppression	5	Increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 1/2/3/4/5% and reduces all threat you generate by 4/8/12/16/20%.	Reworked Confirmed
1/3	Improved Corruption	5	Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6/2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 2/4/6/8/10%.	Reworked Confirmed
2/1	Malediction	5	Increases all periodic damage done by your Warlock spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.	New Confirmed
2/2	Soul Harvesting	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 50% of normal speed while you are casting spells, and grants a 50% increase to your Mana regeneration. (rank 1 of 2 value; other ranks not transcribed)	New Confirmed
2/3	Improved Drains	3	Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by 2/4/6% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 6/12/18%. When your Drain Soul damages targets below 20% health, this bonus is tripled. Additionally, your Drain Life range is extended by 3 (rank 1) / 10 (rank 3) yards.	New Confirmed
3/1	Improved Bane of Agony	2	Increases the damage done by your Bane of Agony by 5/10%.	Reworked Confirmed
3/2	Fel Concentration	3	Gives you a 23/46/69% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling or casting your Drain Life, Drain Mana, or Drain Soul spells.	Reworked Reported
3/3	Amplify Curse	1	Instant, 3 min cooldown. 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.	Unchanged Reported
3/4	Pandemic	3	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Corruption, Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom, Drain Soul, Drain Life, Siphon Life, and Drain Hope spells by 33/66/100%.	New Confirmed
4/1	Malevolence	5	Increases the critical effect chance of your Shadow spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.	New Confirmed
4/2	Nightfall	2	Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, and Drain Life spells a 2/4% 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%.	Reworked Reported
4/3	Curse of Exhaustion Requires Amplify Curse	1	69 Mana, 30 yd range, instant. Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.	Moved Reported
5/2	Siphon Life	1	150 Mana, 30 yd range, instant. Transfers 15 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec (rank visible in demo).	Unchanged Reported
5/3	Soul Siphon	3	Increases the rate at which your Drain Life and Drain Soul deal damage by 17/34/51%, but reduces your healing from Drain Life by 10% (rank 1 value).	New Confirmed
6/3	Shadow Mastery	5	Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.	Reworked Reported
7/2	Drain Hope ★ Requires Siphon Life	1	200 Mana, 30 yd range, channeled. Drains all hope from the target, dealing 52 Shadow damage every 1 sec and increasing all other Shadow damage over time you deal to that target by 10%. Lasts 6 sec.	New Confirmed

Demonology19 talents · 50 ranks

Row/Col	Talent	Ranks	Effect	vs Classic
1/1	Improved Health Funnel	2	Increases the amount of health transferred by your Health Funnel spell by 20%, reduces its health cost by 15%, and reduces all threat your Health Funnel generates by 50%. Allows Health Funnel to be used regardless of your demon's health. (rank 1 of 2 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Reported
1/2	Improved Imp	3	Increases the damage of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 10% and the effect of its Fire Shield spell by 10%. (rank 1 of 3 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Reported
1/3	Demonic Embrace	5	Increases your total Stamina by 3%. (rank 1 of 5 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Reported
1/4	Unholy Power	5	Increases all damage done by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter pets by 2/4/6/8/10%.	Reworked Reported
2/1	Demonic Aegis	2	Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Skin and Demon Armor spells by 15%. (rank 1 of 2 value; other ranks not transcribed)	New Confirmed
2/2	Improved Voidwalker	3	Increases the effectiveness of your Voidwalker's Torment, Consume Shadows, Sacrifice and Suffering spells by 10/20/30%.	Unchanged Reported
2/3	Fel Vitality	3	Increases the maximum health and Mana of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter by 5/10/15%, and increases your maximum Mana by 5% (rank 1 value).	Reworked Confirmed
2/4	Demonic Energies	2	You heal your pet for 8/16% of all spell damage you deal. When you gain Mana from Life Tap, your summoned demon gains 50% of the Mana you gain (rank 1 value).	New Confirmed
3/1	Improved Sayaad	3	Increases the effect of your Succubus' and Incubus' Lash of Pain and Soothing Kiss spells by 10/20/30%, and increases the duration of your Succubus' and Incubus' Seduction and Lesser Invisibility spells by 10/20/30%.	Unchanged Reported
3/2	Demonic Sacrifice	1	100 yd range, instant. When activated, sacrifices your summoned Demon to enhance the opposing aspect of your power, granting you an effect that lasts 2 hrs. The effect is canceled if any Demon is summoned. Imp: Increases your Shadow damage by 15%. Voidwalker: Restores 2% of your total Mana every 4 sec. Succubus/Incubus: Increases your Fire damage by 15%. Felhunter: Restores 3% of your total Health every 4 sec.	Reworked Confirmed
3/3	Master Summoner	2	Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, and Felhunter Summoning spells by 2/4 sec and the Mana cost by 20/40%.	Moved Reported
4/1	Decimation	2	Reduces the cooldown of your Soul Fire spell by 45/90%. When you cast Shadow Bolt or Searing Pain on an enemy below 35% health, they deal 3% increased damage, and for the next 10 sec your Soul Fire spell has its cast time reduced by 20% and costs no Soul Shards (rank 1 values).	New Confirmed
4/3	Fel Domination Requires Master Summoner	1	Instant, 5 min cooldown. Your next Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, or Felhunter Summon spell has its casting time reduced by 5.5 sec and its Mana cost reduced by 50%.	Moved Reported
4/4	Demonic Brand	3	Your Searing Pain generates 17/34/51% less threat and brands the target for 10 sec. Your pet's next 2 attacks against the target generate high threat and deal 39 to 42 Fire or Shadow damage based on the pet (rank 1 damage).	New Confirmed
5/1	Improved Felhunter	3	Increases the Attack Power reduction of your Felhunter's Tainted Blood, the healing of its Devour Magic, and the detection level of its Paranoia by 10%, and reduces the cooldown of its Spell Lock by 2 sec. (rank 1 of 3 value; other ranks not transcribed)	New Reported
5/2	Soul Link Requires Demonic Sacrifice	1	173 Mana, 100 yd range, instant. When active, 30% of all damage taken by the caster is taken by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Incubus, or Felhunter Demon instead. In addition, both the Demon and the master will inflict 3% more damage. Lasts as long as the Demon is active.	Moved Reported
5/3	Demonic Knowledge	3	Increases your spell damage and healing by up to 33% of your level while you have a summoned Demon pet active. (rank 1 of 3 value; other ranks not transcribed)	New Confirmed
6/3	Master Demonologist	5	Grants both the Warlock and the summoned demon an effect as long as that demon is active. Imp - Increases Fire damage done by 2%. Voidwalker - Reduces Physical damage taken by 2%. Succubus/Incubus - Increases Shadow damage done by 2%. Felhunter - Reduces Magic damage taken by 2%. (rank 1 of 5 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Reported
7/2	Demonic Pact ★ Requires Soul Link	1	Your Demonic Sacrifice effect is no longer cancelled by summoning a different Demon pet. Resummoning the sacrificed pet will still cancel the effect.	New Confirmed

Destruction16 talents · 50 ranks

Row/Col	Talent	Ranks	Effect	vs Classic
1/1	Destructive Reach	2	Increases the range of your damaging spells by 10/20%.	Moved Reported
1/2	Improved Shadow Bolt	5	Your Shadow Bolt critical strikes increase Shadow damage taken by the target from your attacks by 4% for 12 sec. (rank 1 of 5 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Reported
1/3	Bane	5	Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6/2 sec.	Moved Reported
2/1	Molten Skin	5	Reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6/8/10%.	New Confirmed
2/2	Cataclysm	3	Reduces the Mana cost of your Destruction spells by 3/6/9%.	Moved Reported
2/3	Aftermath	5	Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 10% and your Conflagrate spell has a 20% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec. (rank 1 of 5 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Confirmed
3/2	Ruin	5	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 20/40/60/80/100%.	Reworked Confirmed
3/3	Shadowburn	1	105 Mana, 30 yd range, instant, 15 sec cooldown. Reagents: Soul Shard. Instantly blasts the target for 102 to 111 Shadow damage. If a non-trivial target dies within 8 sec of being hit with Shadowburn, the caster gains a Soul Shard.	Reworked Reported
4/1	Intensity	3	Gives you a 23/46/69% chance to resist interruption caused by damage while casting or channeling any Destruction spell.	Reworked Reported
4/2	Agonizing Flames	3	Increases the critical strike chance of your Searing Pain spell by 3% and the damage done by all your Destruction spells by 3%. (rank 1 of 3 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Confirmed
4/3	Conflagrate Requires Shadowburn	1	100 Mana, 30 yd range, instant, 10 sec cooldown. Ignites a target that is already afflicted by your Immolate spell, dealing 109 to 132 Fire damage and consuming your Immolate effect (rank visible in demo).	Moved Reported
5/1	Pyroclasm Requires Intensity	2	Gives your Soul Fire spell a 13% chance to Stun the target for 3 sec, and your Rain of Fire and Hellfire spells a 13% chance over their duration to Stun targets they damage for 3 sec. (rank 1 of 2 value; other ranks not transcribed)	Reworked Reported
5/2	Bane of Havoc	1	43 Mana, 30 yd range, instant. Afflicts the target for 5 min, causing 15% of all damage done by the Warlock to other targets to also be dealt to the cursed target. Bane of Havoc is limited to 1 target, and only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target.	New Confirmed
5/3	Fire and Brimstone Requires Conflagrate	3	Increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate spell by 8/16/24%.	New Confirmed
6/3	Shadow and Flame	5	Hitting an enemy with Conflagrate increases all Shadow damage you deal by 2/4/6/8/10% for 20 sec, and hitting an enemy with Shadowburn increases all Fire damage you deal by 2/4/6/8/10% for 20 sec. In addition, Conflagrate has a 20/40/60/80/100% chance not to consume Immolate, and Shadowburn has a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to instantly refund a Soul Shard.	New Confirmed
7/2	Incinerate ★ Requires Bane of Havoc	1	205 Mana, 30 yd range, 2.5 sec cast. Deals 125 to 140 Fire damage to your target and an additional 25% damage if the target is afflicted by Immolate.	New Confirmed

Removed talents and baseline changes

Classic talents that are no longer in these trees, and baseline changes that affect them.