Bane of Havoc, a Destruction Warlock talent in WoW Forever

Bane of Havoc is an active talent in row 5 of the Destruction tree. It needs 20 points in Destruction, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.

Bane of Havoc

1 rank

• 5% of base mana
• 30 yd range
• Instant

• Requires 20 points in Destruction

Afflicts the target for 5 min, causing 15% of all damage done by the Warlock to other targets to also be dealt to the cursed target. Bane of Havoc is limited to 1 target, and only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target.

Every rank of Bane of Havoc

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Afflicts the target for 5 min, causing 15% of all damage done by the Warlock to other targets to also be dealt to the cursed target. Bane of Havoc is limited to 1 target, and only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target.

Where it sits in the Destruction tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

• Incinerate

That talent needs Bane of Havoc at 1/1.

Same row

• Pyroclasm
• Fire and Brimstone

Row above (row 4)

• Intensity
• Agonizing Flames
• Conflagrate

Row below (row 6)

• Shadow and Flame

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

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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.