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

Retail

• Hotfix (2025-04-15): Damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2024-10-29): Damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  
• 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): 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): 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 (2014-11-25): Damage has been increased by 20%.
  
• Hotfix (2013-10-02): 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.
  

Classic

• Patch 5.5.0 (2025-07-01): Damage over time increased by 5%.
  

See also

• Curse of Agony, TCG card

Other versions

• MoP Classic

  Agony
  Agony Level 36 Affliction warlock ability 40 yd range 1% of base mana Instant Inflicts increasing agony on the target, causing up to 3270 Shadow damage over 24 sec. This damage is dealt slowly at first and builds up each time it deals damage.
  Properties
  Class	Warlock
  School	Shadow
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	36
  Glyphs	[Glyph of Eternal Resolve]
  Related debuff
  Curse Agony Suffering 273 Shadow damage every 2 sec. Damage increases over time. Duration: 24 seconds

External links

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