Chaos Bolt
Chaos Bolt 40 yd range 1 Burning Ember 3 sec cast Unleashes a blast of chaos, causing X Shadow damage. Chaos Bolt always critically strikes. In addition, the damage is increased by your critical strike chance.
Usable by
Class	Warlock
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Shadow
Cooldown	(GCD 1.5 sec)
Talents
Specialization	Destruction
Level required	42
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• Chaos Bolt
• 40 yd range
• 1 Burning Ember
• 3 sec cast
• Unleashes a blast of chaos, causing X Shadow damage.
  
  Chaos Bolt always critically strikes. In addition, the damage is increased by your critical strike chance.

Chaos Bolt is a warlock ability learned at level 42 for those with the Destruction specialization. It is one of the hardest hitting spells in the warlock's arsenal, best used as an opener and also in conjunction with [Havoc].

Modified by

• [Soul Leech] (talent)
• [Kil'Jaeden's Cunning] (talent)
• [Pyroclasm] ( destruction spec ability)
• [Mastery: Emberstorm] ( destruction spec ability)

2020

• Glyph of Soul Consumption
• Item Level 25Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Warlock (Destruction)
• Requires Level 25
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Drain Soul restores 20% of your total health after you kill a target that yields experience or honor.
  
  Restore 20% of your total health after you kill a target in Demon Form that yields experience or honor.
  
  Restore 20% of your total health after you kill a target with Chaos Bolt or Shadowburn that yields experience or honor.
• Sell Price: 1

Notes

• [Curse of the Elements] increases magic damage done to a target and should also be applied prior to casting Chaos Bolt in fights of sustained damage.
• Before patch 3.1.3, Chaos Bolt was one of the most mana-efficient spells in the warlock's arsenal, along with Soul Fire. It truly shone in PvP because of its short cast time and the fact that it even ignored damage reduction effects like Pain Suppression.

Resilience myth

Contrary to what was once popular belief, Ghostcrawler said that the developers could not find anything that affected resilience and Chaos Bolt has never bypassed it.

Re: Chaos Bolt change depressing lore-wise | 2009-05-27 06:44 | Ghostcrawler

EDIT: As it turns out, Chaos Bolt does NOT ignore resilience. When the developers went to make this change, they found out that the resilience bypassing was just a myth. They still thought making the change to have CB not bypass other damage reduction affects was an appropriate change. I try to stay on top of all of the changes my team makes, but it's a big game and we typically make a lot of changes every day. The mistake was mine, and I do apologize for any confusion. TLDR: The 3.1.3 change remains, but resilience is not (and never has been) affected.

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Patch changes

• Patch 3.1.3 (2009-06-02): This spell no longer ignores damage reduction effects of the target. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Damage increased approximately 15%. 
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Chaos Bolt now does Fire damage instead of Chaos damage. 
  

External links

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• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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