WoW Forever Talents Talent calculator for World of Warcraft: Forever Patch notes 4 Nov the druid and tank threat changes are in

Soul Siphon

Warlock · Affliction · opens at 20 points spent · 3 ranks

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

Soul Siphon ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 4% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 8% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 24%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 12% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 36%.

What Soul Siphon 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. In Classic Era it is called Improved Drain Life. It has 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.

  1. Rank 1 Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 2%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 4%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 6%.

Where Soul Siphon sits in the Affliction tree

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

How often people take Soul Siphon

83 of the 237 public Warlock builds saved here (35%) put at least one point in Soul Siphon. 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 Soul Siphon

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

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.70755