Soul Siphon, an Affliction Warlock talent in WoW Forever

Soul Siphon is a passive talent in row 5 of the Affliction tree. It needs 20 points in Affliction, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era. It was called Improved Drain Life in Classic.

Soul Siphon

3 ranks

• Requires 20 points in Affliction

Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 4% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%.

Every rank of Soul Siphon

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 4% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%.
Rank 2	Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 8% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 24%.
Rank 3	Increases the damage done or health drained by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 12% per each of your other Affliction effects active on the target, up to a maximum increase of 36%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Affliction tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

• Siphon Life

Row above (row 4)

• Malevolence
• Nightfall
• Curse of Exhaustion

Row below (row 6)

• Shadow Mastery

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

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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.