Warlock Covenant Abilities in Shadowlands

Welcome to our guide that covers Warlock Covenant Abilities in Shadowlands. We first present you a summary of all the abilities before going over the individual Signature and Covenant Class Abilities in more detail.

• Kyrian
  • Signature Ability — Summon Steward calls your steward to bring you a Phial of Serenity.
  • Warlock Ability — Scouring Tithe deals damage to enemies and generates Soul Shards.
• Night Fae
  • Signature Ability — Soulshape transforms you into a Vulpin, instantly teleporting you forward, increasing your movement speed for a short time.
  • Warlock Ability — Soul Rot withers away life force from your current and 3 nearby targets.
• Necrolord
  • Signature Ability — Fleshcraft provides an absorption shield and increases damage taken.
  • Warlock Ability — Decimating Bolt deals damage and empowers your next 3 Drain Souls, Demonbolts, and Incinerates.
• Venthyr
  • Signature Ability — Door of Shadows teleports you to a targeted location.
  • Warlock Ability — Impending Catastrophe creates a cloud that travels to the target and afflicts them with Curse of Weakness or Curse of Tongues.

For more information regarding the best Covenants for each Warlock spec, please refer to our spec-specific pages:

Scouring Tithe: Deal (65% of Spell Power) Arcane damage instantly, and (108% of Spell Power) over 18 seconds. If the enemy dies while affected by Scouring Tithe, you generate 5 Soul Shards. If they survive, Scouring Tithe's cooldown is refreshed. (1.5-second cast, Costs 2% of Base Mana, 40-yard range, 40-second cooldown)

Soul Rot: Wither away all life force of your current target and up to 3 additional targets nearby, causing your primary target to suffer (200% of Spell Power) Nature damage and secondary targets to suffer (100% of Spell Power) Nature damage over 8 seconds. For the next 8 seconds, casting Drain Life will cause you to also Drain life from any enemy affected by your Soul Rot, and Drain Life will not consume any mana. (1.5-second cast, Costs 0.5% of Base Mana, Limited to 4 targets, 40-yard range, 60-second cooldown)

Decimating Bolt

• Affliction: Hurl bolts of decimating magic at your target, dealing (138% of Spell Power) Shadow damage and increasing the damage of your next 3 Drain Souls by 100%. Decimating Bolt's damage, and the bonus to Drain Soul both increase as your target's health decreases.
• Demonology: Hurl bolts of decimating magic at your target, dealing (138% of Spell Power) Shadow damage and increasing the damage of your next 3 Demonbolts by 100%. Decimating Bolt's damage, and the bonus to Demonbolt both increase as your target's health decreases.
• Destruction: Hurl bolts of decimating magic at your target, dealing (138% of Spell Power) Shadow damage and increasing the damage of your next 3 Incinerates by 100%. Decimating Bolt's damage, and the bonus to Incinerate both increase as your target's health decreases.

(2-second cast, Costs 4% of Base Mana, 40-yard range, 45-second cooldown)

Impending Catastrophe: Call forth a cloud of chaotic anima that travels to the target enemy, dealing (25.3% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to enemies in its path. When the anima reaches the target it explodes, inflicting either Curse of Weakness or Curse of Tongues, and dealing (138% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 12 seconds to all nearby enemies. (2-second cast, Costs 4% of Base Mana, 40-yard range, 60-second cooldown)

You can find all class-specific Covenant abilities available for other classes linked below.