Pandemic, an Affliction Warlock talent in WoW Forever

Pandemic is a passive talent in row 3 of the Affliction tree. It needs 10 points in Affliction, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.

Pandemic

3 ranks

Requires 10 points in Affliction

Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Corruption, Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom, Drain Soul, Drain Life, Siphon Life, and Wrack spells by 33%.

Every rank of Pandemic

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Corruption, Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom, Drain Soul, Drain Life, Siphon Life, and Wrack spells by 33%.
Rank 2	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Corruption, Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom, Drain Soul, Drain Life, Siphon Life, and Wrack spells by 67%.
Rank 3	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Corruption, Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom, Drain Soul, Drain Life, Siphon Life, and Wrack spells by 100%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Affliction tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

Row above (row 2)

Row below (row 4)

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

Compared with Classic Era

Pandemic has no Classic counterpart: the data lists it as new in Forever.

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All Affliction talents

The other Warlock trees: Demonology and Destruction. 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.