Bane
Warlock · Destruction · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Bane works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Bane ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.1 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.4 sec.
- Rank 2 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.2 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.8 sec.
- Rank 3 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.3 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.2 sec.
- Rank 4 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.4 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.6 sec.
- Rank 5 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.
What Bane does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.1 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.4 sec.
- Rank 2 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.2 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.8 sec.
- Rank 3 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.3 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.2 sec.
- Rank 4 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.4 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.6 sec.
- Rank 5 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.
Where Bane sits in the Destruction tree
Bane is a Destruction talent for Warlock. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Destructive Reach, Improved Shadow Bolt
How often people take Bane
123 of the 212 public Warlock builds saved here — 58% — put at least one point in Bane. Counted across the 1498 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
8 of the public Warlock builds written up here spend points on Bane.
- Warlock Destruction 16/0/31 — 5/5 , 63 up
- Warlock Demonology 17/21/9 — 5/5 , 5 up
- Warlock Demonology 7/31/13 — 5/5 , 4 up
- Warlock Destruction 17/11/21 — 5/5 , 3 up
- Warlock Destruction 7/11/33 — 5/5 , 3 up
- Warlock Affliction 19/11/18 — 5/5 , 2 up
- Warlock Destruction 7/11/31 — 5/5 , 2 up
- Warlock Affliction 21/21/9 — 5/5
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.69893