Ruin, a Destruction Warlock talent in WoW Forever

Ruin is a passive talent in row 3 of the Destruction tree. It needs 10 points in Destruction, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Ruin

5 ranks

Requires 10 points in Destruction

Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 20%.

Every rank of Ruin

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 20%.
Rank 2	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 40%.
Rank 3	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 60%.
Rank 4	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 80%.
Rank 5	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.

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

Shadowburn

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 Ruin.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text, its position and its rank count.

Position

Classic Era

Destruction, row 5, column 3

WoW Forever

Destruction, row 3, column 2

Ranks

Classic Era

1 rank

WoW Forever

5 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 100%.

WoW Forever

Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Destruction spells by 20%.

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All Destruction talents

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.