Bane of Havoc
Warlock · Destruction · opens at 20 points spent · 1 rank
Bane of Havoc does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.
5% of base mana · 30 yd range · Instant
Bane of Havoc ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Afflicts the target for 5 min, causing 15% of all damage done by the Warlock to other targets to also be dealt to the cursed target. Bane of Havoc is limited to 1 target, and only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target.
Where Bane of Havoc sits in the Destruction tree
Bane of Havoc is a Destruction talent for Warlock. You need 20 points in Destruction before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Incinerate.
- Unlocks: Incinerate
- Same row: Pyroclasm, Fire and Brimstone
How often people take Bane of Havoc
67 of the 237 public Warlock builds saved here (28%) put at least one point in Bane of Havoc. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Bane of Havoc
7 of the public Warlock builds written up here spend points on Bane of Havoc.
- Warlock Destruction 5/11/35 · 1/1 , 16 up
- Warlock Destruction 3/17/31 · 1/1 , 15 up
- Warlock Destruction 7/11/33 · 1/1 , 7 up
- Warlock Destruction 14/11/21 · 1/1 , 4 up
- Warlock Destruction 3/17/31 · 1/1 , 4 up
- Warlock Destruction 9/0/31 · 1/1
- Warlock Destruction 5/11/31 · 1/1
Where this came from
New in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)