Insect Swarm

Insect Swarm
Insect Swarm (7 ranks) Druid ability 30 s. yd range 8% of base mana Instant 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.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent tree	Balance
Talent required	20
Related debuff
Magic Insect Swarm Chance to hit with melee and ranged attacks decreased by 3% and {X/6} Nature damage every 2 sec. Duration: 12 sec.

[[Category:druid abilities]][[Category:druid abilities]]

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

Rank table

Rank	Level	Damage	Training Cost
1	30	144	Talent
2	30	234	60
3	40	375	1 40
4	50	540	1 20
5	60	744	3 40
6	70	1032	20
7	80	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

20

• Glyph of Insect Swarm
• Prime Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Increases the damage of your Insect Swarm ability by 30%.
• Classes: Druid
• Requires Level 25
• Sell Price: 1

Source

This item is created with Inscription (150).

Materials needed

3x [Jadefire Ink]

1x [Common Parchment]

Patch change

• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed. Existing glyphs converted to Glyph of the Orca.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Became a prime glyph.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

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.

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.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB