Even though Blizzard has posted these WotLK talents im sure they are not the finished article and when Wrath of the Lich King is finally released there will be changes to their structure. How do I know this? Besides Koraa saying as much on the forums you just need to look at the Warlock talent calculator to see that some old and new talents are still going to be used as fillers.

Warlock in WotLK
If we take the 11 levels in the Warlock Talents and carefully step through it until we spend 51 points to get our affliction talents its not long until you need to waste some points. After maxing out Suppression, Imp. Corruption,Imp. Life Tap and Imp Drain Soul you have spent only 12 points and have to waste 3 more to move on.

Why do I say waste? Well lets have a look at what is available to put these valuable points in.

Imp. Curse of Agony - In a group or a raid this is never used due to other curse commitments, when soloing why drop 10% extra shadow damge for 5% extra damage on one dot?

Soul Siphon - this talent is very seldom used after leveling to the top, it doesn’t do enough damage to account for the mana it uses up.

Frailty - ok this talent may be useful in some situations but if there is only one affliction lock in the raid I guess they will already be on Curse of Elements by now! So lets assume you waste 2 talent points in frailty, you still have one point to waste.

Fel Concentration- another leveling talent that ceases to be of any value at the highest level.

Imp. Fear - Only really valable in PvP.

Amp. Curse - Still a wasted talent even in Wrath of the Lick King it looks like.

So after using the last point anywhere you have Nightfall, Grim Reach, Empowered Corruption, and Siphon Life, which are all awesome. Again however you have to deceide where to waste the next 2 points.

Shadow Embrace - A talent I still find very situational. If you are up against a heavy melee boss like Brutallis in the Sunwell then this talent is very helpful for the healers, if however your boss does very light melee and mostly shadow these 5 points are wasted.

Curse of Exhaustion - Still a wasted talent were it is in the affliction tree.

So another 2 wasted points but now we have Shadow Mastery, Contagion, Dark Pact and Malediction, even more awesome -ness there, but again we are stopped and need to waste another point.

Improved Felhunter - Why would an affliction warlock have the fellhunter out instead of his battery Imp? I really hope this talent is removed or changed drastically.

Improved Howl of Terror - Yet again only a PvP talent and, unless you like it bloody, never used in groups or raids.

So back to Shadow Embrace for those extra wasted point. Now we get Unstable Affliction and a mojor braking point in the Affliction Talent tree. We now have 4 points to use to move on. These points however either have to be wasted on the talents previously mentioned or on the following 2 useless Affliction talents.

Death’s Embrace - At first sight I thought this was uber, a 5% increase to your Shadow Bolt Crit! After some thought i’m now not so sure. The 10% extra Drain Life if your below 20% health is for PvP only. If your in a group or raid and at 20% health you really need your healers to bring your health back up, this talent wont cut it. The 5% extra crit to your shadow bolt isn’t anything wonderfull either to build that has never relied on crit! Why have a 5% boost to a stat most Affliction locks dismiss?

Eradication - WTF an increase to your casting speed of an instant dot? OK it does also reduce the global cooldown of your spells, then why not just have it like that? All global cooldowns removed for the next 12secends. I mean what were the developers drinking when this talent was thought up, a cooldown on and instant talent, ohhh how I LoL’d

So after wasting these 4 points you get Everlasting Affliction and Haunt, at last some very cool talents but they have cost us 7 wasted talents.

Obviously this is just my opinion on the Wrath of the Lick King talents for Warlocks and as yet I still haven’t got my Beta invite, although I have heard they have been sent out now, guess I never got one.

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