Shadowburn

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.

• Same row: Ruin

How often people take Shadowburn

90 of the 237 public Warlock builds saved here (38%) put at least one point in Shadowburn. 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 Shadowburn

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

• Warlock Destruction 5/11/35 · 1/1 , 16 up
• Warlock Destruction 3/17/31 · 1/1 , 15 up
• Warlock Demonology 4/31/13 · 1/1 , 10 up
• Warlock Destruction 7/11/33 · 1/1 , 7 up
• Warlock Destruction 14/11/21 · 1/1 , 4 up
• Warlock Destruction 3/17/31 · 1/1 , 4 up
• Warlock Demonology 4/31/16 · 1/1 , 2 up
• Warlock Destruction 5/22/24 · 1/1 , 2 up

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)