Damage over time and drains, with Pandemic and Wrack.
Demonology
Damage
Power through demons, with Demonic Brand and Demonic Pact.
Destruction
Damage
Direct Fire and Shadow damage with Incinerate and Bane of Havoc.
Talents & builds
Versus Classic
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Affliction
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Demonology
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Destruction
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Required level
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Points
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Builds
Builds by role · the BiS ones, level 30 (or 20 where there is no 30 yet). The level 30 ones have 26 points: 21 from your level and 5 extra from the Legacy perk Talented
DPS · DungeonsLevel 30 (26 points: 5 come from the Legacy perk Talented) · See its BiS
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Macros ready to copy, with spell names exactly as the game has them. Paste each one into a new macro and drag it to your bar. What a macro is and how to make one
Attacking
Shadow Bolt with your pet
Intermediate · From level 1
Your demon attacks the same target while you cast. Your filler button for most of the levelling.
Marks your focus with Bane of Havoc so it takes part of the damage you deal to your target, without switching targets.
#showtooltip Bane of Havoc
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Bane of Havoc
Trinkets, demon and Shadow Bolt
Advanced · From level 1
In combat it fires both trinkets (slots 13 and 14) if they are ready, sends your demon in and casts Shadow Bolt. Out of combat it does not waste your trinkets.
Spreads Agony across several enemies by hovering over them. It ticks low at first and harder later, so apply it early.
#showtooltip Bane of Agony
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Bane of Agony
Your three DoTs on one button
Intermediate · From level 8
Pressing repeatedly applies Immolate, Corruption and Agony in order; it resets on a new target or after 15 sec.
#showtooltip
/petattack
/castsequence reset=target/15 Immolate, Corruption, Bane of Agony
Next enemy and Drain Soul
Advanced · From level 10
If your target is dead it drops it, picks the nearest enemy, sends your demon and channels Drain Soul. For finishing mobs one after another and gathering shards.
Fears whatever is under your mouse or your focus without losing your target. Only one enemy can be feared at a time.
#showtooltip Fear
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@focus,harm,nodead][] Fear
Fear and set focus on one button
Intermediate · From level 8
With Shift you set your target as focus; without, you Fear your focus. Handy to keep the same enemy feared.
#showtooltip Fear
/focus [mod:shift]
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Fear
Fear whoever is hitting your ally
Advanced · From level 8
With an ally targeted (your healer, say), it fears the enemy hitting them without switching targets; otherwise your mouseover or your target.
#showtooltip Fear
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@targettarget,harm,nodead][harm,nodead] Fear
Fear your focus and call your demon back
Advanced · From level 8
Your demon stops hitting your focus (it would break the fear), you stop casting and fear your focus or target. With Shift, your demon attacks your target instead.
#showtooltip Fear
/petattack [mod:shift,harm,nodead]
/petfollow [nomod]
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Fear
Banish on focus or mouseover
Basic · From level 28
Keeps your focus banished (demons and elementals) without switching targets. Only one enemy at a time.
Stops your cast and fears the enemies around you when you get surrounded.
#showtooltip Howl of Terror
/stopcasting
/cast Howl of Terror
Death Coil on mouseover or focus
Intermediate · From level 42
Stops your cast and horrifies the enemy for 3 sec while healing you. Goes to mouseover or focus if there is one.
#showtooltip Death Coil
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@focus,harm,nodead][] Death Coil
Death Coil on whoever is hitting your ally
Advanced · From level 42
Stops your cast and Death Coils your mouseover or the enemy hitting your selected ally; otherwise your target. To save your healer.
#showtooltip Death Coil
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@targettarget,harm,nodead][harm,nodead] Death Coil
Defense and survival
Life Tap without breaking channels
Intermediate · From level 12
Trades health for mana, but won't break a Drain or Health Funnel if pressed while channelling. With Shift, Health Funnel.
#showtooltip
/cast [nochanneling,mod:shift] Health Funnel; [nochanneling] Life Tap
Life Tap out of combat, Drain Life in combat
Advanced · From level 14
Out of combat you regain mana with Life Tap; in combat, Drain Life on your mouseover or target to win back the health you lose. Never breaks a channel.
#showtooltip
/stopmacro [channeling]
/cast [nocombat] Life Tap; [@mouseover,harm,nodead][harm,nodead] Drain Life
Your warlock armor
Intermediate · From level 20
Demon Armor from level 20; before that, with Shift, Demon Skin. Out of combat only, so you don't waste a global cooldown.
Heals your demon while you channel; does nothing if you have no living pet, so you don't waste the press.
#showtooltip Health Funnel
/cast [@pet,exists,nodead] Health Funnel
Summon your demon or heal it, as needed
Advanced · From level 12
With no demon, it summons your Voidwalker (Imp with Shift); with a living demon, it channels Health Funnel without breaking another channel. One button to keep it up.
The meteor lands under your mouse and stuns what is there. Outdoors only; after 5 min you must subjugate the infernal.
#showtooltip Inferno
/cast [@cursor] Inferno
Utility
Drain Mana on mouseover
Basic · From level 24
Steals mana from an enemy healer or caster without switching targets; useful in PvP.
#showtooltip Drain Mana
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Drain Mana
Curses on mouseover with modifiers
Intermediate · From level 26
Weakness by default; with Shift, Tongues against casters; with Ctrl, Recklessness to lower armor. Only one of your curses per enemy.
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift,@mouseover,harm,nodead][mod:shift] Curse of Tongues; [mod:ctrl,@mouseover,harm,nodead][mod:ctrl] Curse of Recklessness; [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Curse of Weakness
Create your stones on one button
Intermediate · From level 36
Healthstone; with Shift, Soulstone; with Ctrl, Firestone; with Alt, Spellstone.
They use the modern game's macro syntax, which is what Forever runs underneath. We haven't tested them one by one in the beta yet: if one fails, tell us on the board.
How the warlock plays in WoW Forever: the new banes (agony, doom and havoc), Incinerate and Wrack, every demon and what it is for, what you learn from 1 to 40, level 30 talents for each spec, spell priority, stats, races and how to level.
What the October 1 WoW Forever beta update brings: level cap 30, the Excavation Site (26-31), Razorfen Downs and Uldaman, less experience from dungeon quests, a reworked Fury warrior and every class change.
A WoW Forever race guide: which classes each race can play, all 40 racials (active and passive) with beta client numbers, what matters for PvP, groups or leveling, and what changed from Classic.
Blizzard's Classic+ launches on November 4. What changes from Classic: 469 reworked talents, the Skyborne, the Undead Paladin, new zones, nine dungeons and the raids — with the source next to every fact.