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Bane

Warlock · Destruction · available from the first tier · 5 ranks

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

Bane ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.1 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.4 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.2 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.8 sec.
  3. Rank 3 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.3 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.2 sec.
  4. Rank 4 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.4 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.6 sec.
  5. Rank 5 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Immolate, and Incinerate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.

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

What Bane 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 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.1 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.4 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.2 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.8 sec.
  3. Rank 3 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.3 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.2 sec.
  4. Rank 4 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.4 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 1.6 sec.
  5. Rank 5 Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 2 sec.

Where Bane sits in the Destruction tree

Bane is a Destruction talent for Warlock. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

How often people take Bane

113 of the 206 public Warlock builds saved here — 55% — put at least one point in Bane. 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 @5:23:07 (rank 1 tooltip)