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-<div class="fw-notice">'''Preview guide · reviewed 16 September 2026.''' This page explains the recorded demo, not a tested launch build. Talent articles distinguish source-confirmed ranks from estimates and missing text.</div>
+<div class="fw-notice">'''Preview guide · reviewed 17 September 2026.''' The mechanics below come from BlizzCon preview sources. They have been source checked, but have not been tested by this wiki in a release build. Talent articles distinguish recorded ranks from estimates and missing text.</div>
-'''Warlock''' — The Warlock preview uses Mana, demons, damage-over-time effects, and several abilities involving Soul Shards. Affliction, Demonology, and Destruction organize different interactions between those systems.<ref name="preview">Chris Baldwin, [https://talentsforever.com/warlock Talents Forever], [https://talentsforever.com/data.json CC BY 4.0 data export], snapshot 16 September 2026. Community transcription of BlizzCon demo footage and slides; checked 16 September 2026. Adapted and summarized for this guide. See [[Project:Talent data]] for evidence labels and attribution.</ref>
+'''Warlock''' — The Warlock preview uses Mana, demons, damage-over-time effects, and several abilities involving Soul Shards. Affliction, Demonology, and Destruction organize different interactions between those systems.<ref name="preview">Chris Baldwin, [https://talentsforever.com/warlock Talents Forever], [https://talentsforever.com/data.json CC BY 4.0 data export], snapshot 16 September 2026. Community transcription of BlizzCon demo footage and slides; rechecked 17 September 2026. Adapted and summarized for this guide. See [[Project:Talent data]] for evidence labels and attribution.</ref>
 Browse [[Warlock talents|all 52 Warlock talents]] with icons, ranks, prerequisites, and individual source notes.
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 == Race choice ==
 Use [[Race and class combinations#Warlock|the Warlock race list]] to separate officially announced additions from the broader preview roster. Follow the linked [[Races|race guides]] for recorded racials; a racial tooltip does not establish a universal best choice.
 == What remains unresolved ==

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<div class="fw-notice">'''Preview guide · reviewed 16 September 2026.''' This page explains the recorded demo, not a tested launch build. Talent articles distinguish source-confirmed ranks from estimates and missing text.</div>

'''Warlock''' — The Warlock preview uses Mana, demons, damage-over-time effects, and several abilities involving Soul Shards. Affliction, Demonology, and Destruction organize different interactions between those systems.<ref name="preview">Chris Baldwin, [https://talentsforever.com/warlock Talents Forever], [https://talentsforever.com/data.json CC BY 4.0 data export], snapshot 16 September 2026. Community transcription of BlizzCon demo footage and slides; checked 16 September 2026. Adapted and summarized for this guide. See [[Project:Talent data]] for evidence labels and attribution.</ref>

Browse [[Warlock talents|all 52 Warlock talents]] with icons, ranks, prerequisites, and individual source notes.

== Choose a reading path ==
The following is an editorial route through the preview, not a recommended point allocation.<ref name="preview" />
<div class="fw-query-table">
{| class="wikitable sortable fw-data-table"
! Talent tree !! What to compare !! Start with
|-
| Affliction || Persistent effects, drains, and effects that depend on what is already on the target. Distinguish the number of qualifying effects from raw spell damage. || [[Improved Drains]], [[Pandemic]], [[Soul Siphon]], [[Drain Hope]]
|-
| Demonology || Demon-specific bonuses, summoning, and sacrifice interactions. Check which demon must be active or sacrificed for a particular effect. || [[Improved Sayaad]], [[Demonic Sacrifice]], [[Soul Link]], [[Demonic Pact]]
|-
| Destruction || Direct Fire and Shadow spells and interactions involving Immolate or resources. Read the trigger and the resulting school bonus separately. || [[Conflagrate]], [[Bane of Havoc]], [[Shadow and Flame]], [[Incinerate]]
|}
</div>

== Abilities and changes worth checking ==
These are summarized from the pinned community demo transcription. Baseline spells and talents are identified separately where the source supports that distinction.<ref name="preview" />
* '''Banes and Curses.''' The preview export separates the two categories and records simultaneous use of one of each. It identifies Bane of Agony as the renamed former Curse of Agony.
* '''Subjugate Demon.''' The export records this as the renamed Enslave Demon. A renamed ability should not automatically be counted as an additional spell.
* '''Incubus.''' Recorded as a separately named summon alongside the Succubus; the Demonology references include the shared Sayaad terminology.

== Plan a first beta session ==
These are suggested checks for learning the class and collecting useful evidence; they are not claims about the strongest build.
* For Affliction, count only the effects named by Improved Drains when comparing targets with different debuffs.
* For Demonology, record the sacrificed demon and the newly summoned demon separately before testing Demonic Pact.
* For Destruction, track whether Conflagrate consumes Immolate and whether Shadowburn returns a Soul Shard at the tested talent rank.

== Race choice ==
Use [[Race and class combinations#Warlock|the Warlock race list]] to separate officially announced additions from the broader preview roster. Follow the linked [[Races|race guides]] for recorded racials; a racial tooltip does not establish a universal best choice.

== What remains unresolved ==
Demon rankings, final shard acquisition and storage behavior, leveling efficiency, and a final damage-over-time priority list need separate tests. The existence of Soul Link does not by itself establish a supported tank role.

For corrections, record the game build, character level, spell or talent rank, and the observed interaction. Follow [[Project:Data policy]] and compare against [[Warlock talents]] before replacing preview information.

== Sources ==
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