Agony

For the Pet Battle ability, see [Agony].

Agony
Agony Level 10 Affliction warlock ability 40 yd range 1% of base mana Instant Inflicts increasing agony on the target, causing up to (91.9% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 18 sec. Damage starts low and increases over the duration. Refreshing Agony maintains its current damage level. Agony damage sometimes generates 1 Soul Shard.
Properties
Class	Warlock
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	10
Improvements	[Contagion], [Creeping Death], [Ravenous Afflictions], [Relinquished], [Socrethar's Guile], [Tormented Crescendo], [Wrath of Consumption], [Writhe in Agony]
Related debuff
Curse Agony Suffering (2.38346% of Spell power) Shadow damage every 2 sec. Damage increases over time. Duration: 18 seconds

Agony is an Affliction warlock ability.

Gallery

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  Agony in Hearthstone.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13):
  • Damage increased by 40%.
  • Damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
    
• Hotfix (2024-05-07): Damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 40%).
  
• Hotfix (2023-08-21): Now deals 25% increased damage in PvP combat (was 10%).
  
• Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 5%.
  
• Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): No longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Rank 2 removed.
  
• Hotfix (2021-08-09): PvP damage increased by 15% in PvP situations.
  
• Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Damage increased by 20%.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Rank 2 now learned at level 28 (was 52).
  
• Patch 7.2.0 (2017-03-28): Rank 2 added at level 52: Agony may now ramp up to 10 stacks.
  
• Hotfix (2017-01-17): Agony now has its full chance to generate a Soul Shard on Soul Effigy (was 55% of normal chance).
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 5%. Now learned at level 10 (was 6).
  
• Hotfix (2016-09-28): Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Agony to not stack or generate [Soul Shards].
  
• Hotfix (2016-09-23): Agony damage increased by 5%.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Damage increased by 644%, duration reduced to 18 seconds (down from 24). Now learned at level 6 (was 36).
  
• Patch 6.2.2 (2015-09-01): Now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.
  
• Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now deals 12% more damage.
  
• Hotfix (2014-12-15): Agony's damage has been increased by 20%.
  
• Hotfix (2013-10-02): Agony's damage has been reduced by 15%.
  
• Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Damage has been increased by 16%.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): [Bane of Agony] has been renamed Agony and is only available to Affliction warlocks. Now learned at level 36 (was 12).
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): [Curse of Agony] has been renamed Bane of Agony. Now learned at level 12 (was 8).
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Damage from this spell will now continue even if the caster dies or leaves the area.
  
• Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28): The damage over time component of this curse will now only trigger periodic triggerable procs.
  
• Patch 1.8.0 (2005-10-10): Duration reduced to 24 seconds and damage per tick increased. Total damage over duration approximately identical.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Now benefits from items that increase shadow damage.
  
• Patch 0.12 (2004-10-11): Now deals its damage in three stages, damage increased, mana cost slightly increased.
  
• Patch 0.11 (2004-09-29): Duration, damage, and mana cost reduced. Deals damage much faster.
  
• Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Mana cost reduced.
  

See also

• Curse of Agony, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB