Siphon Life

Warlock · Affliction · opens at 20 points spent · 1 rank

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

150 Mana · 30 yd range · Instant

Siphon Life ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Transfers 11 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.

What Siphon Life 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 Transfers 15 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec. Lasts 30 sec.

Where Siphon Life sits in the Affliction tree

Siphon Life is a Affliction talent for Warlock. You need 20 points in Affliction before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Wrack.

How often people take Siphon Life

24 of the 237 public Warlock builds saved here (10%) put at least one point in Siphon Life. 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 Siphon Life

One of the public Warlock builds written up here spends points on Siphon Life.

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)