Amplify Curse

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

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

Instant; 3 min cooldown

Amplify Curse ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Bane of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.

Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.

What Amplify Curse 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.

Rank 1 Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Curse of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.

Where Amplify Curse sits in the Affliction tree

Amplify Curse is a Affliction talent for Warlock. You need 10 points in Affliction before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Curse of Exhaustion.

Unlocks: Curse of Exhaustion
Same row: Improved Bane of Agony, Fel Concentration, Pandemic

How often people take Amplify Curse

51 of the 206 public Warlock builds saved here — 25% — put at least one point in Amplify Curse. 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.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:17:45 (rank 1 tooltip)