Warlock: Forever against Classic

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New in Forever

Talents with no counterpart in Classic 1.12.

Affliction	Malediction Increases the damage of all your curse effects.
Affliction	Soul Harvesting Killing blows return soul shards.
Affliction	Improved Drains Your drain spells are more effective.
Affliction	Improved Bane of Agony Bane of Agony deals more damage.
Affliction	Pandemic Your damage-over-time spells can critically strike.
Affliction	Malevolence Increases the duration of your Affliction spells.
Affliction	Soul Siphon Drain Life grows stronger with more afflictions on the target.
Affliction	Wrack Shadow damage over time that makes your other shadow effects hit harder.
Demonology	Demonic Aegis Demon Armor provides stronger protection.
Demonology	Fel Vitality Increases health and mana for you and your demon.
Demonology	Demonic Energies Your demon lends you part of its power.
Demonology	Improved Sayaad Improves your Succubus’ abilities.
Demonology	Decimation Increases damage against targets at low health.
Demonology	Demonic Brand Marks the target to take increased Shadow damage.
Demonology	Improved Felhunter Improves your Felhunter’s abilities.
Demonology	Demonic Knowledge Spell damage scales with your demon’s attributes.
Demonology	Demonic Pact Your demon increases the party’s spell damage.
Destruction	Molten Skin Permanently reduces damage taken.
Destruction	Agonizing Flames Immolate deals more damage.
Destruction	Bane of Havoc Damage to the target is echoed onto a second one.
Destruction	Fire and Brimstone Increases damage against burning targets.
Destruction	Shadow and Flame Critical strikes increase your spell damage.
Destruction	Incinerate A fire spell that hits harder against burning targets.

Gone from Classic

Talents that existed in Classic and are not in the beta client. The text below each one is the Classic tooltip, not our summary.

Affliction	Improved Curse of Weakness Increases the effect of your Curse of Weakness by 6%.
Affliction	Improved Drain Soul Gives you a 50% chance to get a 100% increase to your Mana regeneration for 10 sec if the target is killed by you while you drain its soul. In addition your Mana may continue to regenerate while casting at 50% of normal.
Affliction	Improved Drain Life Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 2%.
Affliction	Improved Curse of Agony Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 2%.
Affliction	Grim Reach Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 10%.
Affliction	Improved Drain Mana Causes 15% of the Mana drained by your Drain Mana spell to damage the opponent.
Affliction	Improved Curse of Exhaustion Increases the speed reduction of your Curse of Exhaustion by 5%.
Affliction	Dark Pact Drains 150 of your pet's Mana, returning 100% to you.
Demonology	Improved Healthstone Increases the amount of Health restored by your Healthstone by 10%.
Demonology	Fel Intellect Increases the maximum Mana of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, and Felhunter by 3%.
Demonology	Improved Succubus Increases the effect of your Succubus' Lash of Pain and Soothing Kiss spells by 10%, and increases the duration of your Succubus' Seduction and Lesser Invisibility spells by 10%.
Demonology	Fel Stamina Increases the maximum Health of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, and Felhunter by 3%.
Demonology	Improved Enslave Demon Reduces the Attack Speed and Casting Speed penalty of your Enslave Demon spell by 2% and reduces the resist chance by 2%.
Demonology	Improved Firestone Increases the bonus Fire damage from Firestones and the Firestone effect by 15%.
Demonology	Improved Spellstone Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Spellstone by 15%.
Destruction	Improved Firebolt Reduces the casting time of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 0.5 sec.
Destruction	Improved Lash of Pain Reduces the cooldown of your Succubus' Lash of Pain spell by 3 sec.
Destruction	Devastation Increases the critical strike chance of your Destruction spells by 1%.
Destruction	Improved Searing Pain Increases the critical strike chance of your Searing Pain spell by 2%.
Destruction	Improved Immolate Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 5%.
Destruction	Emberstorm Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 2%.

Moved within its tree

Same tree, different row. A row is a price: from row 2 to row 5 the talent costs 25 points in the tree instead of 10.

Affliction	Improved Life Tap from 5 points in the tree to 0
Affliction	Curse of Exhaustion from 20 points in the tree to 15
Affliction	Shadow Mastery a different column in the same row - the price stays at 25 points
Demonology	Improved Health Funnel from 5 points in the tree to 0
Demonology	Fel Domination from 10 points in the tree to 15
Demonology	Master Summoner from 15 points in the tree to 10
Demonology	Unholy Power from 15 points in the tree to 0
Demonology	Demonic Sacrifice from 20 points in the tree to 10
Demonology	Soul Link from 30 points in the tree to 20
Destruction	Cataclysm from 0 points in the tree to 5
Destruction	Bane from 5 points in the tree to 0
Destruction	Shadowburn a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Destruction	Destructive Reach from 15 points in the tree to 0
Destruction	Ruin from 20 points in the tree to 10
Destruction	Conflagrate from 30 points in the tree to 15

A different number of ranks

The talent exists in both, with a different number of ranks.

Affliction	Fel Concentration 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta
Destruction	Cataclysm 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta
Destruction	Intensity 2 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta
Destruction	Ruin 1 ranks in Classic, 5 in the beta

What changed since BlizzCon

1 changes between the trees shown at BlizzCon and the current beta client.

replaced

Affliction

Drain Hope → Wrack Shadow damage over time that makes your other shadow effects hit harder.

Two independent Classic 1.12 talent datasets, compared against each other: maladr0it/classic-talent-calculator and hseager/Classic-WoW-Talent-Planner. All 431 talents they share sit at identical positions in both. Names and positions are taken from the second, which is the complete one; the first is missing Faerie Fire (Feral).