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Burnout
Increases your spell critical damage bonus with all Fire spells by X% but your spell criticals cost an additional Y% of the spell's cost.
Usable by
Class	Mage
Properties
Location	Fire, Tier 10
Affects	Fire spells
Ranks	5
Requirements
Points required	45
Spec specific	Yes

Burnout is a Mage talent in the Fire tree. It increases the critical strike damage bonus on all Fire spells (similar to Spell Power) but incurs a mana penalty on every crit.

The fully talented 5/5 ability provides 50% and applies to the damage bonus or component derived from critical strikes. Since critical strikes hit for 150% of a normal strike, that critical bonus or component is 50%, half (50%) of which is 25%. Therefore, taking this talent makes your fire spells crit for 175% of their normal damage.

Rank table Edit

Rank	Critical bonus increase	Mana cost increase
1	10%	1%
2	20%	2%
3	30%	3%
4	40%	4%
5	50%	5%

Notes Edit

Note that this talent has powerful synergy with Ignite. Since Ignite is not based on the critical bonus, but rather the total damage, Ignite provides an additional 40% of all Burnout's 175% critical damage. This raises total fire critical damage to 245%, compared to the untalented crit base of 150%, when both Burnout & Ignite talents are taken.

The mana cost increase can be made up for and surpassed by the mana gains of specializing into Master of Elements.

Patch change Edit

/ Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Removed.
/ Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Added.

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