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For the plague eruptor, see Bane (mob).

Bane
Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Chaos Bolt and Immolate spells by X seconds and your Soul Fire spell by Y seconds.
Usable by
Class	Warlock
Properties
Location	Destruction, Tier 2
Affects	Immolate, Shadow Bolt, Soul Fire, Chaos Bolt
Ranks	5
Requirements
Points required	5
Spec specific	Yes

• Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Chaos Bolt and Immolate spells by X seconds and your Soul Fire spell by Y seconds.

Bane is a warlock talent which reduces the casting time of key damage spells in the Destruction tree: Immolate, Shadow Bolt, Chaos Bolt and Soul Fire.

Notes

At rank 5, Immolate's cast time will be 1.5 sec, Chaos Bolt will be 2 sec, most ranks of Shadow Bolt will be 2.5 sec, and Soul Fire will be 4 sec.

This talent is a nice boost to Immolate and Chaos Bolt, but has a much greater effect on Shadow Bolt. It works out to slightly more than 20% increase in DPS when spamming Shadow Bolts.

Patch changes

• Patch 1.8.0 (10-Oct-2005): Now reduces casting time of the Soul Fire spell in addition to Immolate and Shadow Bolt. 
  

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