Unstable Affliction

Unstable Affliction is an Affliction warlock talent that places a damage over time debuff on the target. If the debuff is dispelled, the dispeller will be dealt substantial damage and silenced for 4 seconds.

• The silence effect from this ability is subject to diminishing returns.
• Certain abilities that "remove" harmful effects rather than "dispelling" them, such as a rogue's Cloak of Shadows or a mage's Ice Block, can remove Unstable Affliction without triggering its secondary effects. The Felhunter's Devour Magic is considered a dispel effect, and so will trigger Unstable Affliction's effects.

• This is a great spell for warlocks in arena. With all the curses a warlock has, a priest will be forced to dispel, which results in the direct damage.
• In PvE, this spell is just another DoT. Most raid bosses do not dispel, and therefore the damage and silence of effects of dispelling this spell are wasted.
• In PvP, it can help prevent your DoTs from being dispelled safely, as its secondary effects can cause significant damage to the dispeller.

• {{Patch 7.1.0|note=The Warlock may now afflict a target with up to 5 Unstable Afflictions at once, and the dispel damage is now based on the number of stacks instead of the remaining duration.
• Damage increased by 5%.}
• Now learned at level 14 (was 10), and the Soul Shard refund has been moved to Rank 2 at level 26.}}

• Unstable Affliction (Fires of Outland), TCG card