WoW Forever Warlock
Warlock is the most changed class in the demo build with 19 new talents and 17 removed, and all three capstones are new. Eleven "Improved" talents were dropped in one pass, which is exactly the passive-percentage cleanup Blizzard described on stage.
Sim status
Warlock for Forever: Quick Sim live in beta
MythicSim is integrating the open-source wowsims engine, via its community Forever fork, as a second backend. The engine is theirs; MythicSim adds the hosting and the one-click front end. Quick Sim ships first, checked against live beta data from 17 September 2026. Stat priorities, trinket boards and a droptimizer follow once beta gear and loot tables exist. Retail Midnight sims are unaffected.
What changes for Warlock
Incinerate and Drain Hope are new spells. Bane of Havoc and Bane of Agony replace and extend the Curse family. Demonic Pact, Shadow and Flame, Pandemic, Malevolence and Fire and Brimstone are new talents spread across the trees.
Troll Warlocks are new to the Horde. Since periodic damage can now crit, Affliction gains real value from crit rating, which no Classic Warlock sim ever had to model.
Demo build census: 19 new talents, 17 removed.
Specs
- Affliction WarlockDPS
Bane of Agony, Pandemic and periodic crits make dot damage the point of the tree rather than a tax.
- Demonology WarlockDPS
Demonic Pact and Malevolence give the pet tree a raid contribution and a new capstone.
- Destruction WarlockDPS
Incinerate, Shadow and Flame and Fire and Brimstone build a fire rotation that is not just Shadow Bolt.
New spells and talents
New spells
- Incinerate
- Drain Hope
- Bane of Havoc
- Bane of Agony
New talents
- Demonic Pact
- Shadow and Flame
- Pandemic
- Malevolence
- Fire and Brimstone
Removed
- Eleven separate "Improved" talents
From the BlizzCon 2026 demo build via the community talent calculators. Beta will change some of this; the page is updated as it does.
Races
Human, Gnome, Orc, Undead, Troll. Troll Warlock is new to Forever. The Skyborne cannot be Warlocks. Racials are rebuilt so no two races share a passive and weapon skill racials are gone, which is why race is a real sim input in Forever.
What the Warlock sim has to model
Beyond the engine-wide changes (unified hit and crit, Expertise, bonus healing as spell damage, periodic crits), these are the Warlock-specific pieces the Forever engine needs before a stat weight for this class means anything.
- Dot crits and Pandemic refresh behaviour for Affliction.
- An Incinerate and Shadow and Flame rotation for Destruction instead of a Shadow Bolt loop.
- Demonic Pact as a raid buff contribution from the pet tree.
Warlock trinket boards
One board per spec, ranked on the Forever engine once beta data lands. Each page already lists every trinket a Warlock can equip at 60 and where it drops.
Other Forever classes
Common questions
Is there a WoW Forever Warlock sim?
A beta one, at /wow-forever/sim. MythicSim runs the open-source wowsims Forever engine (a community fork of wowsims/classic, not a MythicSim engine) as a second backend, with Warlock on its new talent trees. Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number. Talent values are being checked against beta data from 17 September 2026; launch is 4 November 2026.
What new spells does Warlock get in WoW Forever?
Incinerate, Drain Hope, Bane of Havoc, Bane of Agony. New talents include Demonic Pact, Shadow and Flame, Pandemic, Malevolence, Fire and Brimstone.
Which races can be a Warlock in WoW Forever?
Warlock can be played by Human, Gnome, Orc, Undead, Troll in World of Warcraft: Forever. Troll Warlock is new in Forever. The Skyborne cannot be Warlocks.
What are the Warlock specs in WoW Forever?
Affliction (DPS), Demonology (DPS), Destruction (DPS). Forever keeps the three Classic trees for every class and reworks their contents; there are no new specs.
Do I need a /simc string to sim a Forever Warlock?
No. The SimulationCraft addon is retail-only. Forever sims will use a Classic-style character export addon that MythicSim ships with the sim. Until it is live, this page is reference material for the class changes.
Beta
Sim your Forever Warlock
Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number for your talent spec. Progress is posted in the MythicSim Discord and the changelog.