Suppression

Suppression ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 1% and reduces all threat you generate by 4%.
2. Rank 2 Increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 2% and reduces all threat you generate by 8%.
3. Rank 3 Increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 3% and reduces all threat you generate by 12%.
4. Rank 4 Increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 4% and reduces all threat you generate by 16%.
5. Rank 5 Increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 5% and reduces all threat you generate by 20%.

What Suppression 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 chance for enemies to resist your Affliction spells by 2%.
2. Rank 2 Reduces the chance for enemies to resist your Affliction spells by 4%.
3. Rank 3 Reduces the chance for enemies to resist your Affliction spells by 6%.
4. Rank 4 Reduces the chance for enemies to resist your Affliction spells by 8%.
5. Rank 5 Reduces the chance for enemies to resist your Affliction spells by 10%.

Where Suppression sits in the Affliction tree

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

• Same row: Improved Life Tap, Improved Corruption

How often people take Suppression

150 of the 206 public Warlock builds saved here — 73% — put at least one point in Suppression. 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 @5:16:45 (rank 1 tooltip)