Curse of Exhaustion
Warlock · Affliction · opens at 15 points spent · 1 rank
Curse of Exhaustion works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
8% of base mana · 30 yd range · Instant
Curse of Exhaustion ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
What Curse of Exhaustion 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 target's movement speed by 10% for 12 sec. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
Where Curse of Exhaustion sits in the Affliction tree
Curse of Exhaustion is a Affliction talent for Warlock. You need 15 points in Affliction before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Amplify Curse first.
- Requires: Amplify Curse
- Same row: Malevolence, Nightfall
How often people take Curse of Exhaustion
108 of the 237 public Warlock builds saved here (46%) put at least one point in Curse of Exhaustion. 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 Curse of Exhaustion
8 of the public Warlock builds written up here spend points on Curse of Exhaustion.
- Warlock Demonology 11/24/2 · 1/1 , 35 up
- Warlock Affliction 19/11/5 · 1/1 , 11 up
- Warlock Demonology 14/21/9 · 1/1 , 8 up
- Warlock Affliction 22/0/16 · 1/1 , 1 up
- Warlock Affliction 15/11/5 · 1/1
- Warlock Affliction 20/11/0 · 1/1
- Warlock Affliction 21/11/0 · 1/1
- Warlock Affliction 22/11/0 · 1/1
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)