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| Insect Swarm |
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| Usable by |
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| Class | Druid |
| Properties |
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| Type | Offensive and Utility |
| School | Nature |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
| Talents |
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| Talented | Yes |
| Talent tree | Balance |
| Talent required | 20 |
| Other information |
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| Ranks | 7 |
| Related debuff |
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- Insect Swarm
- Instant cast
- 30 yds. range
- 8% of base mana
- The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit with melee and ranged attacks by 3% and causing X Nature damage over 12 sec.
Insect Swarm is a talent-learned DoT spell and debuff.
Rank table
| Rank | Level | Damage | Training Cost
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| 1 | 30 | 144 | Talent
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| 2 | 30 | 234 | 60
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| 3 | 40 | 375 | 1 40
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| 4 | 50 | 540 | 1 20
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| 5 | 60 | 744 | 3 40
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| 6 | 70 | 1032 | 20
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| 7 | 80 | 1290 | 20
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Notes
- Does not stack with chance to miss % of other insect swarm.
- Unlike a lot of other DoT spells which deal damage every 3 seconds, Insect Swarm deals damage every 2 seconds, meaning 6 ticks will occur in its duration of 12 seconds (7 over 14 seconds if you have Nature's Splendor).
Improvements
Talents
Improved Insect Swarm: Increases your damage done by your Wrath spell to targets afflicted by your Insect Swarm by 1-3%, and increases the critical strike chance of your Starfire spell by 1-3% on targets afflicted by your Moonfire spell.
Glyphs
Tips and Tactics
- The talent is useful when used in conjunction with Moonfire. In addition, it's a cheap DoT that gains 120% from your +spell damage, which makes it desirable for certain balance builds and one of the most mana-efficient DoTs in the game.
- In a raiding perspective the damage mitigation with the chance to miss helps with the survival of the main tank.
- Unlike most (all?) Druid spells, Insect Swarm does not interrupt the swing timer. [1]
Patch changes
- Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): The bonus damage from spell power on this damage-over-time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes (from 76% to 120%).
- Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Tooltip corrected to indicate it does not affect hit chance with spells.
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