Improved Corruption
Warlock · Affliction · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Improved Corruption works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Improved Corruption ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.4 sec and increases the damage it deals by 2%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.8 sec and increases the damage it deals by 4%.
- Rank 3 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 1.2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 6%.
- Rank 4 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 1.6 sec and increases the damage it deals by 8%.
- Rank 5 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec and increases the damage it deals by 10%.
What Improved Corruption 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 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.4 sec.
- Rank 2 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 0.8 sec.
- Rank 3 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 1.2 sec.
- Rank 4 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 1.6 sec.
- Rank 5 Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec.
Where Improved Corruption sits in the Affliction tree
Improved Corruption is a Affliction talent for Warlock. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Improved Life Tap, Suppression
How often people take Improved Corruption
138 of the 206 public Warlock builds saved here — 67% — put at least one point in Improved Corruption. 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 @5:16:47 (rank 1 tooltip)