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Azeroth Survivors Warlock Build

TL;DR

Warlock is B-tier DoT spread this snapshot — 120 cloth HP, three damage-over-time spells, Shadow Bolt already reaching 24 yards. Who it is for: spreading dots without standing in melee, not a plate soak. (low confidence: kit numbers only.)

  • Core skill: Shadow Bolt — 15 damage, 1.4s, 1 target, 24 yards.
  • Key AOE count: 2 tagged AOE spells (Rain of Fire, Hellfire) plus Corruption, Curse of Agony, and Immolate as the DoT set.
  • Easiest death wave is not in the snapshot. First boss clock is 2:15; win clock is 15 minutes.

Warlock build at a glance

RoleDoT spread, cloth
Featured kitDoT Spread
Starting spellShadow Bolt · 15 dmg · 1.4s · 1 target · 24 yd
AOE count2 tagged AOE spells
Max HP120
Move speed7.5 yd/s
F abilityHowl of Terror at level 5 · 20s · Howl, sending every enemy within 12 yards fleeing in terror for 4 sec.
Spell pool / cap9 in pool · cap 6
Difficulty4/5 — 120 HP, three damage-over-time spells to track
Best forDoT spread without standing in melee

Full kit numbers live on the Warlock class page. This page is the build: what to take, when, and what walks through your fear. The nine-class directory is on /builds.

Core combo and skill priority

Combat auto-casts. Your job is the draft and Howl of Terror. The DoT Spread core is four names: Corruption, Curse of Agony, Immolate, Rain of Fire. Shadow Bolt is already on the bar. Offers still show three cards at a time with the card weights (upgrade owned spell 1.2, new class spell 1.0). You will not install the whole core in one level-up.

  1. 0–5 min. Start on Shadow Bolt (15 damage, 1.4s, 1 target, 24 yards). Take Corruption (4/s for 10s, 3 targets) and Curse of Agony (3.5/s for 12s, 4 targets) from the three-card offer. Howl of Terror unlocks at level 5 (12-yard fear, 4s, 20s cooldown). First boss clock is 2:15.
  2. Mid run. Add Immolate (12 damage plus 4/s for 9s, 2 targets) and Rain of Fire (8 damage, 9s, 7 yard ground, 6s) as the rest of DoT Spread. Keep Hellfire (6 damage, 1s, 7 yard aura) if Rain of Fire never shows. Do not fill the six-spell cap with Searing Pain before the DoT set is in.
  3. Late run. Slot Shadowburn (46 damage, 5s, 20 yards) or Death Coil (26 damage, 5s, Drain 0.5, 22 yards) when packs thin. Searing Pain is the 18-damage, 1.8s bolt. Win clock is 15:00.

Shadowburn (46 damage, 5s, 20 yards) looks fat next to Shadow Bolt's 15 and still loses the first-five-minutes argument because it is one body on a 5s cooldown while Corruption already hits 3 targets. Hellfire is 6 damage on a 1s aura if Rain of Fire never shows.

What to level first

Level Shadow Bolt first whenever the offer is an upgrade. It is already equipped, the weight on owned-spell upgrades is 1.2, and extra ranks buy damage and later extra targets at ranks 3, 5, and 7 per the card formulas. A new Corruption still beats a new Searing Pain on the same screen because you are buying a 3-target DoT, not a second single-target button.

After Corruption is on the bar, Curse of Agony is the widest DoT (3.5/s for 12s on 4 targets). Immolate adds a 12 hit plus 4/s for 9s on 2 targets. Rain of Fire is the ground circle (8 damage, 9s, 7 yards, 6s). Cap is 6 spells at rank 8. Warlock has 9 names in the pool — three stay off the bar. A seventh Warlock name is a dead card.

Passives share the offer. Max 6 at rank 5. Take HP or cooldown stats if the three cards are all passives — there is no Warlock-only talent tree in this snapshot. Howl of Terror still unlocks on a timer (level 5), not from a card.

Warlock's weak matchups

Warlock loses the stick-and-stun war. Shadow Bolt sits at 24 yards; Corruption sits at 20 yards; Curse of Agony sits at 20 yards — still a ranged kit, not melee. Howl of Terror is a 12 yard fear for 4s on a 20s cooldown, not a gap closer. Warrior Charge covers 25 yards and stuns: Charge punches through a Howl if Charge is up, and you eat the melee if Howl is not. Paladin matches 160 HP with Divine Shield. Those two class pages are the clean counter-kit reads: Warrior and Paladin.

Mage Blink teleports 18 yards on a 10s cooldown and lists six tagged AOE spells against Warlock's 2. Hunter Arcane Shot starts at 28 yards. Cloth HP is 120 at 7.5 yd/s — the extra 0.5 yd/s over plate is the kite, not a soak. Rain of Fire is a 9s ground tool; it is not always down.

Which map fights to skip is not in the snapshot. Do not skip the first boss on a hunch — it spawns at 2:15 on every map in this file. Later HP growth is x(1+0.75*progress).

How Warlock changed in v1

v1 is this site's snapshot label, not a numbered Aethus changelog. The Warlock numbers on this page are the extracted kit: nine spells, Shadow Bolt start, Howl of Terror at 5, 120 HP, 7.5 yd/s, two tagged AOE spells. Source commit for those rows is eb9bbe3 (2026-10-13). The Windows file is dated 2026-10-19. A skill that changed between those two dates is not listed here.

Shadow Bolt still starts, Corruption is still the 10s three-target DoT, Howl of Terror is still the F-key fear. If the live client prints a different version string, re-check the Warlock spell table after we extract the new file.

Warlock vs the other classes

ClassHPAOEStartBuild
Warlock1202Shadow BoltThis page
Mage1206FrostboltMage build
Priest1202SmitePriest build
Hunter1352Arcane ShotHunter build
Paladin1602Hammer of WrathPaladin build

Mage is the AOE king on the same 120 HP. Rogue is melee finishers with one nova. Priest is the cloth shield. Paladin is plate plus Immune. For the S/A/B/C board, open the tier list.

Warlock talents (checked in game 0.130.1)

Source: our playtest of wow.aethus.pl on 2026-10-30. This talent tree snapshot is 0.130.1. Effects are copied from the in-game tooltip with no points spent. Talents change often — check the in-game tree.

Affliction
  1. Row 1
  2. Suppression (5 ranks) — Increases your luck by 5%.
  3. Shadow Embrace (5 ranks) — Your damage-over-time effects deal 4% more damage.
  1. Row 2
  2. Improved Curse of Agony (3 ranks) — Curse of Agony deals 5% more damage.Requires 5 points in Affliction
  3. Improved Drain Life (5 ranks) — Drain Life deals 8% more damage.Requires 5 points in Affliction
  1. Row 3
  2. 10-point milestone: Nightfall (1 rank) — Your Shadow Bolts carry the night: each one that lands corrupts its target for 40% of the bolt over 12 sec, and every tick of Corruption has a 2% chance to fire a free Shadow Bolt, at most twice a second.Requires 10 points in Affliction
  3. Soul Reaping (3 ranks) — Death Coil instantly deals 5% of your Drain Life's remaining damage on its target, without consuming it.Requires 10 points in Affliction
  1. Row 4
  2. Grim Reach (1 rank) — Your damage-over-time spells take 1 more target.Requires 15 points in Affliction
  3. Shadow Mastery (5 ranks) — Shadow spells deal 3% more damage.Requires 15 points in Affliction
  1. Row 5
  2. 20-point milestone: Contagion (1 rank) — When an enemy dies with Corruption or Curse of Agony on it, each jumps to the enemy nearest it.Requires 20 points in Affliction · Requires 1 rank in Nightfall
  3. Amplify Curse (3 ranks) — Curse of Agony's cooldown is 8% shorter.Requires 20 points in Affliction
  1. Row 6
  2. Siphon Life (1 rank) — Every tick of your damage-over-time effects heals you for 1% of it.Requires 25 points in Affliction
  3. Fel Concentration (3 ranks) — Your damage-over-time effects last 6% longer.Requires 25 points in Affliction
  1. Row 7
  2. Capstone: Seed of Corruption (1 rank) — You start every run with Corruption, and enemies that die afflicted by your damage-over-time effects burst for 3% of their maximum health on everything within 6 yd.Requires 30 points in Affliction · Requires 1 rank in Contagion
Demonology
  1. Row 1
  2. Demonic Familiar (5 ranks) — An Imp fights at your side for good, its Firebolts 4% stronger. Each one also strikes every enemy burning with your Immolate. Supremacy: your Infernal's Hellfire deals 1% more damage.
  3. Demonic Embrace (5 ranks) — Increases your maximum health by 4%.
  1. Row 2
  2. Fel Stamina (3 ranks) — Reduces all damage taken by 2.5%.Requires 5 points in Demonology
  3. Unholy Power (5 ranks) — Your demons deal 5% more damage.Requires 5 points in Demonology
  1. Row 3
  2. 10-point milestone: Soul Devourer (3 ranks) — Permanently summons a Felhunter. Its bites hit 2 enemies, prioritizing bosses and elites, and deal 0.5% more damage per 1% missing enemy health. Consume Magic: Consumes 10% of your highest-ranked DoT's remaining duration, dealing 150% of the consumed damage. Rules out Soul Link. Supremacy: your Doomguard deals 2% more damage to bosses and elites.Requires 10 points in Demonology · Requires 5 ranks in Demonic Familiar
  3. 10-point milestone: Soul Link (3 ranks) — Permanently summons a Voidwalker that hits 2 enemies. Gains 3% damage per 1% Damage Reduction and 2% per 1% bonus max health. Your Voidwalkers shield you for 5% of their damage, up to 10% of your max health. Rules out Soul Devourer. Supremacy: gain 1% damage reduction.Requires 10 points in Demonology · Requires 5 ranks in Demonic Familiar
  4. Demonic Echoes (3 ranks) — Your demons' attacks have a 5% chance to Echo for full damage. This is their only Echo source.Requires 10 points in Demonology
  1. Row 4
  2. Master Demonologist (3 ranks) — Increases all damage and your demons' critical strike chance by 3%.Requires 15 points in Demonology
  1. Row 5
  2. 20-point milestone: Legion Gate (1 rank) — Every 4 sec, summon 3 random lesser demons for 12-16 sec (max 12). Succubi stun Corrupted enemies. Their kills trigger a Death Coil at 50% damage. Supremacy: every 12 sec, your greater demons empower their next attack for +50% damage.Requires 20 points in Demonology · Requires 3 ranks in Soul Devourer or Soul Link
  3. Demonic Supremacy (1 rank) — Your Infernal and Doomguard become permanent. You can no longer summon lesser demons. Maximum one of each.Requires 20 points in Demonology
  1. Row 6
  2. Summon Infernal (3 ranks) — Your damaging spells have a 5% chance to summon an Infernal for 15 sec (max 1). Its Meteor stuns enemies on impact, and it burns nearby enemies with Hellfire at 100% effectiveness.Requires 25 points in Demonology
  3. Summon Doomguard (3 ranks) — Your damaging spells have a 5% chance to summon a Doomguard for 15 sec (max 1). Its Shadow Bolts hit 2 enemies and inherit your upgrades. Doom Bringer: Consecutive hits on the same boss or elite deal 20% more damage, up to 60%.Requires 25 points in Demonology
  1. Row 7
  2. Capstone: Pact of the Nathrezim (1 rank) — Summons a Dread Lord for 20 sec every 30 sec, reduced by CDR (min 13 sec). Up to 2 active. Felseeker inherits your Searing Pain upgrades and deals 25% more damage to its primary target. It hits up to 6 enemies. Exclusive with Butcher.Requires 30 points in Demonology · Requires 1 rank in Legion Gate
  3. Capstone: Butcher (1 rank) — Summons a Felguard for 20 sec every 30 sec, reduced by CDR (min 13 sec). Up to 2 active. Cleaves up to 10 enemies within 15 yd. Every third swing deals double damage. Deals 50% more damage below 30% enemy health. Exclusive with Pact of the Nathrezim.Requires 30 points in Demonology · Requires 1 rank in Legion Gate
Destruction
  1. Row 1
  2. Improved Shadow Bolt (5 ranks) — Shadow Bolt deals 5% more damage.
  3. Cataclysm (5 ranks) — Your cooldowns recover 1.5% faster.
  1. Row 2
  2. Intensity (5 ranks) — Soulfire deals 4% more damage.Requires 5 points in Destruction
  3. Scorched Earth (5 ranks) — Your Hellfire deals 5% more damage. Each pulse has a 3% chance to slow each enemy it burns by 40% for 3 sec.Requires 5 points in Destruction
  1. Row 3
  2. 10-point milestone: Shadow Cleave (1 rank) — Shadow Bolt splits: every bolt that lands forks to 2 more enemies for 15% of it.Requires 10 points in Destruction
  3. Improved Searing Pain (3 ranks) — Searing Pain and Immolate deal 8% more damage.Requires 10 points in Destruction
  1. Row 4
  2. Destructive Reach (3 ranks) — Rain of Fire and Hellfire reach 8% farther.Requires 15 points in Destruction
  3. Devastation (5 ranks) — Increases your critical strike chance by 1%.Requires 15 points in Destruction
  1. Row 5
  2. 20-point milestone: Conflagrate (1 rank) — Start every run with Immolate. Shadow Bolt and Searing Pain make Immolated enemies explode for 15% of the hit's damage within 6 yd.Requires 20 points in Destruction · Requires 1 rank in Shadow Cleave
  3. Emberstorm (5 ranks) — Fire spells deal 3% more damage.Requires 20 points in Destruction
  1. Row 6
  2. Ruin (3 ranks) — Increases your critical strike damage by 8%.Requires 25 points in Destruction
  3. Bane (3 ranks) — Shadow Bolt and Immolate cooldowns are 7% shorter.Requires 25 points in Destruction
  1. Row 7
  2. Capstone: Rain of Chaos (1 rank) — A second Rain of Fire falls on its own every 13 sec, and its burning ground slows what it touches.Requires 30 points in Destruction · Requires 1 rank in Conflagrate
Warlock talent trees, in-game screenshot
Warlock talent trees, in-game screenshot · game 0.130.1

FAQ

What is the best Warlock build in Azeroth Survivors?
DoT Spread: Corruption, Curse of Agony, Immolate, Rain of Fire. Shadow Bolt starts the 24-yard bolt. Hellfire is the second tagged AOE if Rain of Fire never shows. Death Coil (26 damage, Drain 0.5) and Shadowburn (46 damage) fill later single-target slots. Howl of Terror on F from level 5.
What should Warlock level first?
Rank Shadow Bolt when the offer shows it — it is already on the bar at 15 damage, 1.4s, one target, 24 yards. Then take Corruption (4/s for 10s, three targets) and Curse of Agony (3.5/s for 12s, four targets) before extra single-target bolts. Rain of Fire is the 7-yard ground circle. Stop at six spells.
Can you play Warlock without Rain of Fire?
Yes. Warlock still has Hellfire as a second tagged AOE (6 damage, 1s, 7 yard aura), plus Corruption, Curse of Agony, and Immolate, with Shadow Bolt as the start. Rain of Fire is the ground circle in DoT Spread, not a requirement to queue Warlock. Howl of Terror on F covers a 12-yard fear.
Does Warlock fall off after the first boss (2:15)?
Kit math does not show a hard cliff at the first boss. Enemy HP in the snapshot grows x(1+0.75*progress) and damage x(1+0.9*progress). Warlock still has three damage-over-time spells and two tagged AOE tools. Whether dots outscale later packs on 120 HP is not in a run log. (low confidence.)

Data from the game's open-source build, updated Oct 13, 2026 · Sources: GitHub rebuild data and in-game playtests.