Insect Swarm

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Insect Swarm is a talent-learned DoT spell and debuff.

Contents 1 Rank table 2 Notes 3 Improvements 3.1 Talents 3.2 Glyphs 4 Tips and Tactics 5 Patch changes 6 References 7 External links

Rank table

Rank	Level	Mana Cost	Damage	Training Cost
1	30	9% base mana	144	Talent
2	30	9% base mana	234	60
3	40	9% base mana	375	1 40
4	50	9% base mana	540	1 20
5	60	9% base mana	744	3 40
6	70	8% base mana	1032	20
7	80	8% base mana	1290	20

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.
  

References

External links

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