Improved Drains

Improved Drains ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by 2% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 6%. When your Drain Soul damages targets below 20% health, this bonus is tripled. Additionally, your Drain Life range is extended by 3 yards.
2. Rank 2 Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by 4% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%. When your Drain Soul damages targets below 40% health, this bonus is tripled. Additionally, your Drain Life range is extended by 6 yards.
3. Rank 3 Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by 6% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 18%. When your Drain Soul damages targets below 60% health, this bonus is tripled. Additionally, your Drain Life range is extended by 9 yards.

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

Where Improved Drains sits in the Affliction tree

Improved Drains is a Affliction talent for Warlock. You need 5 points in Affliction before the row it sits on opens.

• Same row: Malediction, Soul Harvesting

How often people take Improved Drains

70 of the 206 public Warlock builds saved here — 34% — put at least one point in Improved Drains. 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

New in Forever.

• BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
• Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:17:34 (rank 1 tooltip)