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Flametongue Weapon
Flametongue Weapon 6% of base mana Instant cast Melee Weapon Imbue the Shaman's weapon with fire, increasing total spell damage by X. Each hit causes Y additional Fire damage, based on the speed of the weapon. Slower weapons cause more fire damage per swing. Lasts 30 minutes.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Fire
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talented	No
Other information
Ranks	10
Requirements	Melee Weapon

• Flametongue Weapon
• 6% of base mana
• Instant cast
• Imbue the Shaman's weapon with fire, increasing total spell damage by X. Each hit causes Y additional Fire damage, based on the speed of the weapon. Slower weapons cause more fire damage per swing. Lasts 30 minutes.

The flames licked the edges of the weapon as though only blood would slake its thirst.^[1]

Flametongue Weapon is a temporary weapon enhancement that does fire damage and increases spell damage for 30 minutes.

Functionality

Flametongue Weapon gives a straight buff to spell damage, plus extra Fire damage per melee hit. In addition, Enhancement Shamans can learn Lava Lash, which increases damage by 25% if the off-hand weapon is enchanted with Flametongue Weapon.

Flametongue Weapon is the preferred weapon buff for Elemental Shamans, even though from level 5 to 18 Minor Wizard Oil has +1 more spell damage. Note that since this only increases damage, Oils are the only beneficial weapon buff for healing until Earthliving Weapon at level 30.

For Enhancement Shamans, it is the recommended that after you talent 5/5 in Elemental Fury to use Flametongue on your offhand weapon over Windfury Weapon.

Rank table

Talents

Talents that can improve the weapon buff:

	Talent Points Needed	Type	Description	Talent Points Available
	20	Enhancement	Elemental Weapons	3
	25	Enhancement	Mental Quickness	3
	35	Enhancement	Lava Lash	1

Tips

• While Flametongue is useless against foes with high Fire resistance, it is not halted by those with high armour.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Fixed tooltip error. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Bonus damage from spell power now based on weapon speed. Slower weapons will benefit more from spell power.
  

            Note this bonus damage refers to the additional melee Fire damage per hit, not the increased spell damage, which is a flat amount.

See Also

• Windfury Weapon
• Frostbrand Weapon
• Rockbiter Weapon
• Earthliving Weapon

References

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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