Lava Burst
Lava Burst 30 yards range 8 sec cooldown 10% of base mana 2 sec cast You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing X Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst will deal a critical strike.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Fire
Cooldown	8 sec
Talents
Improvement talents	[Concussion], [Convection], [Call of Flame], [Elemental Mastery], [Elemental Reach], [Lava Flows], [Eye of the Storm]
Other information
Ranks	2

• Lava Burst
• 30 yards range
• 10% of base mana
• 2 sec cast
• You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing X Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst will deal a critical strike.

Lava Burst is an Elemental Shaman's highest hitting spell, due to it having a 100% crit chance if the [Flame Shock] DoT is on the enemy. It is on a 8sec cooldown, thus causing shaman dps rotations to be governed by cooldowns and priorities.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Damage	Cost
1	75	1012 - 1290	18
2	80	1192 - 1518	18

Notes

• The Flame Shock DoT only has to be active upon completion of casting Lava Burst. If the DoT wears off while the Lava Burst projectile is traveling, it will still crit.
• This ability does not work with [Maelstrom Weapon].

Tips and Tactics

• Rotations should be timed around utilizing Lava Burst as much as possible.
•  [Glyph of Lava] provides higher damage.
• PvP - Lava burst and [Chain Lightning], which has no traveling time, if cast in succession will generally hit at the same time for spike damage.
• Enhancement shamans do not normally use this ability (unless the shaman is out of melee range and unable to close in, for example). The main issue is that it has a cast time and is not on Maelstrom Weapon. Because of that, Lava Burst stops auto attacks and pauses the swing timer, so it is best to use Chain Lightning or Lightning Bolt (both of which benefit from Maelstrom Weapon haste) instead.

Patch changes

• 3.2.2 [Lava Burst]: This ability no longer ever consumes a Flame Shock debuff off of the target.

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