Fiendish Cruelty
Critical strikes dealt by Chaos Bolt, Conflagrate, or Incinerate have a 10% chance to make your next cast of Shadowburn within 30 sec cost no Soul Shards and usable on any target regardless of health.
Tree position
In the Destruction Warlock talent tree, Fiendish Cruelty sits in the Destruction specialization talents, row 6 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Destruction Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Fiendish Cruelty from Shadowburn.
ShadowburnBlasts a target for (496.8% of Spell Power) Shadowflame damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health. Restores 1 Soul Shard and removes its cooldown if the target dies within 5 sec.
Connected below
Fiendish Cruelty leads on to Reverse Entropy.
Reverse EntropyYour spells have a chance to grant you 15% Haste for 8 sec.
Same row
Also on this row: Chaotic Inferno, Flashpoint, Summon Infernal, Emberstorm, Fire and Brimstone and Lake of Fire.
Chaotic InfernoIncreases Chaos Bolt damage by 5% and Chaos Bolt now has a 25% chance to make your next Incinerate instant.
FlashpointWhen your Wither deals periodic damage to a target above 80% health, gain 2% Haste for 10 sec.
Summon InfernalSummons an Infernal from the Twisting Nether, impacting for (60% of Spell Power) Fire damage and stunning all enemies in the area for 2 sec. The Infernal will serve you for 30 sec, dealing damage to all nearby enemies every 2 sec and generating 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 1 sec.
EmberstormIncreases the damage done by your Fire spells by 2% and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 20%.
Fire and BrimstoneIncinerate now also hits all enemies near your target for 25% damage.
Lake of FireCataclysm now leaves behind a lake of fire that deals Fire damage to enemies within it over 10 sec. Wither deals 20% increased damage to enemies within the lake of fire.
Talent trees
Fiendish Cruelty is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Warlock: Affliction (DPS), Demonology (DPS), Destruction (DPS).
Fiendish Cruelty Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)