Aftermath, a Destruction Warlock talent in WoW Forever

Aftermath is a passive talent in row 2 of the Destruction tree. It needs 5 points in Destruction, so the earliest you can take it is level 15 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Aftermath

5 ranks

Requires 5 points in Destruction

Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 10% and your Conflagrate spell has a 20% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.

Every rank of Aftermath

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 10% and your Conflagrate spell has a 20% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.
Rank 2	Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 20% and your Conflagrate spell has a 40% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.
Rank 3	Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 30% and your Conflagrate spell has a 60% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.
Rank 4	Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 40% and your Conflagrate spell has a 80% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.
Rank 5	Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 50% and your Conflagrate spell has a 100% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Destruction tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

Row above (row 1)

Row below (row 3)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Aftermath.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Gives your Destruction spells a 2% chance to daze the target for 5 sec.

WoW Forever

Increases the initial damage of your Immolate spell by 10% and your Conflagrate spell has a 20% chance to Daze the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec.

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The other Warlock trees: Affliction and Demonology. Everything that changed for the Warlock since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.