General Warlock Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Spell Lock has been removed from the talent tree and returned to the Felhunter.
• Shadow Bolt and Incinerate base damage has been increased.

Warlock Class Tree Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Abyss Walker — Using Demonic Circle: Teleport or your Demonic Gateway reduces all damage you take by 4% for 10 seconds.
• Gorefiend’s Resolve — Targets resurrected with Soulstone resurrect with 40% additional health and 30% additional mana.
• Fel Synergy — Soul Leech also heals you for 25% and your pet for 50% of the absorption it grants.
• Resolute Barrier — Attacks received that deal at least 5% of your health decrease Unending Resolve’s cooldown by 10 seconds. Cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds.
• Profane Bargain — When your health drops below 35%, the percentage of damage shared via your Soul Link is increased by an additional 5%.
• Demonic Resilience — Reduces the chance you will be critically struck by 4%. All damage your primary demon takes is reduced by 15%.
• Inquisitor’s Gaze — Summons an Inquisitor’s Eye that attacks your enemies.
• Pact of the Annihilan removed.
• Pact of the Eredar removed.
• Pact of the Imp Mother removed.
• Decimating Bolt removed.
• Dimensional Rift removed.
• Soul Conduit refund chance reduced to 10% at max rank (was 15%).

Affliction Warlock Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Nightfall — Now causes Drain Soul to channel 50% faster.
• Malefic Affliction — Malefic Rapture causes your active Unstable Affliction to deal 10% additional damage, up to 30%, for the rest of its duration.
• Doom Blossom — If Corruption damages a target affected by your Unstable Affliction, it has a 10% chance per stack of Malefic Affliction to deal Shadow damage to nearby enemies.
• Dread Touch — If Malefic Affliction exceeds 3 stacks, the target instead takes 20% additional damage from your damage over time effects for 6 seconds.
• Grim Reach — When Darkglare deals damage, it deals 50% of that damage to all enemies affected by your damage over time effects.
• Soul-Eater’s Gluttony — Whenever Unstable Affliction deals damage, the cooldown of Soul Rot is reduced by 0.5 seconds.
• Malefic Wrath removed.
• Deathbolt removed.
• Death Dealer removed.
• Pact of the Nathrezim removed.
• Deliberate Malice removed.
• Creeping Death no longer decreases the duration of Agony, Corruption, Unstable Affliction, or Siphon Life.
• Soul Flame‘s icon has been changed.
• Vile Taint’s cooldown is now 30 seconds (was 20).
• Tormented Crescendo is now a talent.
• Vile Taint has been reworked — Unleashes a vile explosion at the target location, dealing Shadow damage over 10 seconds to 8 enemies within 10 yards and applies Agony and Curse of Exhaustion to them.

Affliction Warlock Talent Tree in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

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Demonology Warlock Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Dreadlash now increases the damage of Dreadbite by 10% (was 25%).
• Fel and Steel now increases the damage of Felstorm and Dreadbite by 10% (was 20%).
• Fel Sunder now increases the damage an enemy takes from you and your pets by 1%, up to 5% (was 2%, up to 10%).
• Demonic Tyrant’s Demonfire damage increased by 50%.
• New Talent: Reign of Tyranny — Active Wild Imps grant 1 stack of Demonic Servitude. Active greater demons grant 2 stacks of Demonic Servitude. Demonic Tyrant deals 3% additional damage for each stack of Demonic Servitude active at the time of his summon.
• New Talent: Guillotine — Your Felguard hurls his axe towards the target location, erupting when it lands and dealing Shadowflame damage every 1 second for 8 seconds to nearby enemies. While unarmed, your Felguard’s basic attacks deal damage to all nearby enemies and attacks 50% faster.

Demonology Warlock Talent Tree in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

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Destruction Warlock Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Pandemonium — Tooltip updated. Functionality unchanged.
• Cry Havoc — Tooltip updated. No longer ignores the Havoc target when dealing damage.
• New Talent: Explosive Potential — Reduces the cooldown of Conflagrate by 2 seconds.
• New Talent: Scalding Flames — Increases the damage of Immolate by 13%/25%.
• Rolling Havoc — Now stacks up to 5 times (was 10) and lasts 5 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Backdraft — Now affects Soul Fire.
• Chaos Bolt — Damage reduced by 30%.
• Incinerate — Damage reduced by 30%.
• Dimensional Rift — Damage reduced by 30%.
• Immolate — Damage reduced by 17%.
• Rain of Fire — Damage reduced by 17%.
• Shadowburn — Damage reduced by 50%.
• Conflagrate — Damage reduced by 15%.
• Soul Fire — Damage reduced by 25%.
• Mastery: Chaotic Energies — No longer reduces the Warlock’s damage taken.

Destruction Warlock Talent Tree in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

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Warlock PvP Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Call Observer — Now available for all Warlock specializations (was Demonology only).
• Bonds of Fel — Now available for all Warlock specializations (was Destruction only).