Burnout (mage talent)

Burnout
Burnout (5 ranks) Increases your spell critical damage bonus with all Fire spells by 10n% but your spell criticals cost an additional 1n% of the spell's cost.
Requirements
Class	Mage
Properties
Affects	Fire spells

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. This talent was introduced in Patch 3.0.2.

Rank table

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

Notes

• The 50% applies to the damage bonus derived from critical strikes. Since critical strikes hit for 150% of a normal strike, that bonus is 50%, 50% of which is 25%. Therefore, taking this talent makes your Fire spells crit for 175% of their normal damage.

• Note that this spell has powerful synergy with Ignite. Since Ignite is not based on the bonus, but rather provides 40% extra damage out of the full 175%, it actually raises critical strike damage by 70% of the normal strike (which is 40% of 175%), turning Fire crits essentially into 245% crits, up from 150% base, when both talents are taken.
• The mana cost increase can be made up for and surpassed by the mana gains of specialising into [Master of Elements].