Improved Drains

Warlock · Affliction · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks

Improved Drains does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Improved Drains ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases Health drained, damage done, or Mana drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana spells by 7%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases Health drained, damage done, or Mana drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana spells by 13%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases Health drained, damage done, or Mana drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana spells by 20%.

Where Improved Drains sits in the Affliction tree

Improved Drains is a Affliction talent for Warlock. You need 5 points in Affliction before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Improved Drains

16 of the 237 public Warlock builds saved here (7%) put at least one point in Improved Drains. 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.

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)