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Spell glossary: Warlock

The spells and talents of a sustained single-target Warlock rotation at level 20, with their real values sourced from WoW: Forever's own Wowhead tooltips.

Abilities

Ability	Required level	Cost	Cooldown	Cast	Effect	Source
Corruption	14	55 Mana	None	2 sec (Improved Corruption, talented in the real build, makes this instant per its own tooltip description -- not re-verified on Corruption's own tooltip this pass)	65 / 15s (14/tick)	Wowhead tooltip
Immolate	20	90 Mana	None	2 sec	38 (+20% SP) 60 / 15s (13/tick)	Wowhead tooltip

Talents

Ability	Tree	Max rank	Effect	DPS relevant?
Improved Life Tap	Affliction	2	+10%/rank Mana gained from Life Tap (per Icy Veins' text: "+20% at 2/2")	Yes
Suppression	Affliction	5	+Hit chance per rank, plus reduced threat generation (per Icy Veins' text; exact per-rank amount not looked up)	Yes
Improved Corruption	Affliction	5	—	Yes
Soul Harvesting	Affliction	2	+25%/rank Mana regeneration on a killing blow while channeling Drain Soul (+50% at 2/2, per Icy Veins' text)	Yes

What's still missing

This class isn't complete yet: here's precisely what hasn't been sourced yet, rather than leaving it silent.

Bane of Agony (a real DoT explicitly named in the rotation, applied only "if the enemy will survive long enough"), Life Tap (the class's core Health-to-Mana mechanic, central to the whole build's talent picks), Drain Life, Drain Soul, curses (Curse of Recklessness/Curse of the Elements, dungeon/group-situational), and the demon pet's own damage are all named in the real rotation but not looked up.
Shadow Bolt (the class's other classic signature spell) is explicitly named in the guide as WORSE than wanding at level 20 ("currently deals less damage for the time spent casting while also costing Mana and generating additional threat") -- a real, sourced reason it's deliberately excluded from the level-20 rotation, not an oversight.
Demon pet damage is entirely unsourced, the same real gap already flagged for Hunter's pet -- likely a meaningful fraction of total real DPS.
"talents.demonology" and "talents.destruction" are empty placeholders -- the real level-20 build spends all 11 points in Affliction.

See also: the DPS simulator and character optimizer use this same data.

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