Ruin
Warlock · Destruction · opens at 10 points spent · 5 ranks
Ruin works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Ruin ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 20%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 40%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 60%.
- Rank 4 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 80%.
- Rank 5 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.
What Ruin 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. It has 1 ranks in Classic Era rather than 5.
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
- Rank 4 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.
Where Ruin sits in the Destruction tree
Ruin is a Destruction talent for Warlock. You need 10 points in Destruction before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Shadowburn
How often people take Ruin
96 of the 206 public Warlock builds saved here — 47% — put at least one point in Ruin. 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