Starting route
21/0/0Affliction · Sustained pressure, drain windows and recovery
Edit in Calculator Talent snapshot through client build 1.60.1.70291. Build recommendations are editorial.PvP field notes
WoW Forever Warlock PvP Build
WoW Forever Warlock PvP build: compare a Level 30 Beta Affliction route and its Level 20 starter, with exact talent effects, pet control and a planner.
Compare the route
This current Level 30 Beta example spends 21 points. Unlike the shared leveling allocation, a PvP check needs to include the opponent’s ability to interrupt pressure, force pet repositioning or punish Life Tap. For comparable PvP encounters, keep opponent level and equipment similar, then record control uptime and safe health-to-mana windows. Compare the Demonology route at the same 21-point budget if pet survival limits the route. The Affliction example uses current Corruption, drain support, Amplify Curse and Curse of Exhaustion before Siphon Life. Separate sustained pressure from an encounter that prevents useful channels or health-to-mana windows. Soul Harvest needs a non-trivial Drain Soul kill, so it is not unconditional PvP regeneration. Keep opponent level and demon comparable, record control failures across encounters and whether control lets you disengage or survive.
These routes use the same talent allocation. Their intended use differs; no talent changes or performance advantage are implied.
WARLOCK / ROLE CONDITIONS
What prevents useful Warlock pressure?
Hold target lifetime and demon constant while recording periodic uptime and completed drains. Amplify Curse affects only the named next effects, while Nightfall is chance-based. A short encounter cannot establish sustained damage or a win rate. Selected 1.60.1.70291 ranks: Improved Corruption 5/5: Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%. Improved Drains 3/3: Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%. Amplify Curse 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. Nightfall 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%. Siphon Life 1/1: Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec. Tooltip amounts are the export’s Level 60 snapshot, not rescaled results for the selected planner level. Point tiers, full-rank prerequisites and editorial spending order remain planning assumptions.
The selected condition focuses the talent evidence below. These are editorial comparisons of a recorded allocation.
Selected talent ranks
Improved Corruption 5/5Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
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Improved Drains 3/3Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.
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Amplify Curse 1/1Increases 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.
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Nightfall 2/2Gives 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%.
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Siphon Life 1/1Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.
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Editable editorial routes · Source limits remain visible · No simulated performance scores
BLIZZARD OCTOBER 1 NOTESOfficial
October 1 Beta changes for Warlock
Official Beta announcement · Blizzard’s October 1 development notes
Affliction Soul Harvesting was renamed Soul Harvest and now correctly grants its 50/100% increase to Mana regeneration.
Hellfire can now critically strike; Drain Soul now stops when the Warlock begins casting another spell.
Aggressive Mode returned for Warlock pets under the pet tab in the spell book.
The live Beta level cap is 30. The talent structure was reconciled through 1.60.1.70291; 21-point Level 30 routes are editorial allocations. Rank descriptions retain their separate community transcription evidence, and point-order rules remain derived assumptions.
Affliction: selected talents and trade-offs
Improved Corruption 5/5, Improved Life Tap 2/2 and Improved Drains 3/3 lead to Amplify Curse at eleven. Fel Concentration 3/3 and Soul Harvest 1/2 reach fifteen. Curse of Exhaustion, Nightfall 2/2 and Improved Bane of Agony 2/2 precede Siphon Life at twenty-one. Soul Siphon is a deeper current talent and is unselected.
Soul Harvest is partial and requires a qualifying Drain Soul kill. Curse of Exhaustion follows the one-Curse-per-target rule in its text. Sustained effects and channels need useful uptime, while this route leaves Demonology pet support outside the budget.
This current Level 30 Beta example spends 21 points. Unlike the shared leveling allocation, a PvP check needs to include the opponent’s ability to interrupt pressure, force pet repositioning or punish Life Tap. For comparable PvP encounters, keep opponent level and equipment similar, then record control uptime and safe health-to-mana windows. Compare the Demonology route at the same 21-point budget if pet survival limits the route. The Affliction example uses current Corruption, drain support, Amplify Curse and Curse of Exhaustion before Siphon Life. Separate sustained pressure from an encounter that prevents useful channels or health-to-mana windows. Soul Harvest needs a non-trivial Drain Soul kill, so it is not unconditional PvP regeneration. Keep opponent level and demon comparable, record control failures across encounters and whether control lets you disengage or survive.
Executable point order
Use the progression to inspect each point from Level 10 to 30. The calculator opens the exact allocation and level. These routes are examples for comparing choices, not a measured damage ranking.
Reviewed Warlock snapshot: 52 visible nodes from Wago client build 1.60.1.70291, reconciled against Talents Forever. All 149 rank descriptions are adapted from Talents Forever (CC BY 4.0, https://talentsforever.com), with community verification. Two active Warlock positions use explicitly reviewed row/column mappings; the original raw coordinates are preserved and those mapped positions have community evidence. The export resolves tooltip values at Level 60; it does not rescale them to the selected level or simulate damage. Level 30 examples spend 21 points; the existing Level 20 page uses eleven-point stages of this reviewed tree. One point per level from 10, five points per tier, full-rank prerequisites and the editorial point order remain derived planning assumptions. Original 69913 saves remain historical records and are not partially migrated into a changed allocation.
Data sources, verification & planning limits
Reviewed Warlock snapshot: 52 visible nodes from Wago client build 1.60.1.70291, reconciled against Talents Forever. All 149 rank descriptions are adapted from Talents Forever (CC BY 4.0, https://talentsforever.com), with community verification. Two active Warlock positions use explicitly reviewed row/column mappings; the original raw coordinates are preserved and those mapped positions have community evidence. The export resolves tooltip values at Level 60; it does not rescale them to the selected level or simulate damage. Level 30 examples spend 21 points; the existing Level 20 page uses eleven-point stages of this reviewed tree. One point per level from 10, five points per tier, full-rank prerequisites and the editorial point order remain derived planning assumptions. Original 69913 saves remain historical records and are not partially migrated into a changed allocation.