Warlock talent changes: double Shadow Mastery and two reach talents

Blizzard’s 16 October development notes made three Warlock talent changes. They touch different trees and different schools, so they are easy to blur together.

Affliction: Shadow Mastery doubles

Shadow Mastery now increases your Shadow spell damage by 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% or 10% across its five ranks. It had been 1% to 5%.

It applies to Shadow spells. It is not a 10% increase to all Warlock damage, and Fire spells do not benefit.

Affliction: Grim Reach replaces Malediction

Malediction is gone. In its place, Grim Reach increases the range of your Affliction spells by 10% or 20%.

Destruction: Destructive Reach

Destructive Reach now increases the range of your Destruction spells by 10% or 20%.

Reading the reach talents correctly

Each reach talent extends the range of its own tree’s spells. Grim Reach does nothing for a Destruction spell, and Destructive Reach does nothing for an Affliction spell. Neither extends every Warlock spell, and the notes do not list which spells sit in which tree.

A note on reagents

The same build also fixed a bug that let Warlocks with the Reagent Economy Legacy perk summon an Incubus without a Soul Shard. The perk covers purchasable reagents, and shards are not among them; our Reagent Economy explainer has more.