World of Warcraft: Hellcaller Warlock Hero Talents Guide for The War Within

Hero Talent trees are a significant new feature in the talent system of World of Warcraft: The War Within. Among these is the Hellcaller Warlock, which presents exciting damage options for the class.

Hero Talents are specifically crafted to enhance existing talents, providing greater depth and customization options that keep most specializations viable in challenging content. They enable players to delve deeper into class fantasy and explore fresh gameplay styles.

Each class has three Hero Talent trees associated with their specializations, except for Druids, who have four, and Demon Hunters, who have just two.

Hellcaller Warlock Full Hero Talent Tree Explained

Hero Talent trees adhere to a standardized structure, characterized by a Keystone Talent that indicates the tree’s overall direction. Following this, three rows of Hero Talents allow players to pick distinctive paths within the tree. The Capstone Talent culminates the tree’s powers.

Hellcaller Warlock Keystone Hero Talent

Wither: Imposes a malevolent curse on the target, burning its sinew and muscle, inflicting Shadowflame damage over 18 seconds. This talent replaces Corruption (Affliction) or Immolate (Destruction).

Hellcaller Warlock First-Row Hero Talents

Xalan’s Ferocity: Increases Shadow damage by 5% and Fire damage by 5%.

Blackened Soul: Enhances your damaging abilities to further corrupt enemies afflicted by your Wither, increasing its stack count by 1. Each time Wither increases, it may become acute, dealing Shadowflame damage to its host every second until only 1 stack remains. Wither will always become acute after reaching 8 stacks or when its host is at 20% health.

Xalan’s Cruelty: Increases Fire critical strike chance by 10% and Shadow critical strike chance by 10%.

Hellcaller Warlock Second-Row Hero Talents

Choice Node: Mark of the Legashi and Aura of Enfeeblement

Mark of the Legashi: Curse of Weakness now also applies Curse of Tongues.
Aura of Enfeeblement: Enemies within 10 yards are affected by your Curse of Weakness and Curse of Tongues at 75% effectiveness.

Choice Node: Hatefury Rituals and Bleakheart Tactics

Hatefury Rituals: Wither deals 100% more damage, but its duration is reduced by 50%.
Bleakheart Tactics: Wither damage is increased by 15%. When Wither gains a stack from Blackened Soul, it has a chance to gain an additional stack.

Choice Node: Zevrim’s Resilience and Illhoof’s Design

Zevrim’s Resilience: Consuming a Healthstone restores 10% of your maximum health as Soul Leech.
Illhoof’s Design: Sacrificing 10% of your maximum health causes Soul Leech to absorb an additional 15% of your maximum health.

Hellcaller Warlock Third-Row Hero Talents

Mark of Xavius: Agony damage is increased by 10%. Agony now functions as a combo skill (Affliction). Recasting Agony within 2 seconds applies it to 1 other nearby enemy. Wither damage is increased by 10% and also acts as a combo skill (Destruction).

Cull the Weak: Casting or refreshing Wither directly with under 4 seconds remaining grants Wither an additional 3 stacks.

Mark of Peroth’arn: Blackened Soul deals 5% more damage per stack of Wither (Affliction). Agony and Wither both deal damage 10% faster (Destruction).

Hellcaller Warlock Capstone Hero Talent

Malevolence: Dark magic erupts from you, affecting your soul for 20 seconds, causing enemies afflicted by your Wither to take Shadowflame damage and increasing its stack count by 3 (Affliction). During this effect, your active Withers are acute, your haste is raised by 10%, and Malefic Rapture or Chaos Bolt grants an extra stack of Wither to targets affected by Unstable Affliction (Destruction).