Shadow Mastery

Warlock · Affliction · opens at 25 points spent · 5 ranks

Shadow Mastery works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Shadow Mastery ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 1%.
Rank 2 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 2%.
Rank 3 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 3%.
Rank 4 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 4%.
Rank 5 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 5%.

What Shadow Mastery 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 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 2%.
Rank 2 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 4%.
Rank 3 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 6%.
Rank 4 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 8%.
Rank 5 Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 10%.

Where Shadow Mastery sits in the Affliction tree

Shadow Mastery is a Affliction talent for Warlock. You need 25 points in Affliction before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Shadow Mastery

37 of the 212 public Warlock builds saved here — 17% — put at least one point in Shadow Mastery. 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 Shadow Mastery

8 of the public Warlock builds written up here spend points on Shadow Mastery.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

Forever client build 1.60.1.69893