Shadowburn

Warlock · Destruction · opens at 10 points spent · 1 rank

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

105 Mana · 30 yd range · Instant · 15 sec cooldown

Shadowburn ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Instantly blasts the target for 65 to 74 Shadow damage. If a non-trivial target dies within 8 sec of being hit with Shadowburn, the caster gains a Soul Shard.

What Shadowburn 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.

  1. Rank 1 Instantly blasts the target for 92 to 104 Shadow damage. If the target dies within 5 sec of Shadowburn, and yields experience or honor, the caster gains a Soul Shard.

Where Shadowburn sits in the Destruction tree

Shadowburn is a Destruction talent for Warlock. You need 10 points in Destruction before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Shadowburn

81 of the 212 public Warlock builds saved here — 38% — put at least one point in Shadowburn. 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 Shadowburn

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

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893