Living Bomb
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| Living Bomb | |
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| Usable by | |
| Class | Mage |
| Properties | |
| Type | Offensive |
| School | Fire |
| Cooldown | GCD |
| Talents | |
| Talented | Yes |
| Improvement talents | Impact, Ignite, Critical Mass, Fire Power, Pyromaniac, Precision, Arcane Instability, Spell Power, Playing with Fire, Molten Fury, |
| Other information | |
| Ranks | 3 |
| Related debuff | |
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- "Pop quiz! You've got a bomb attached to your soul. What do you do?"
—Riley SizzleswitchTCGSW 54
Living Bomb is a mage spell that debuffs the target with a DoT, dealing 1380 damage over 12 seconds (at max rank). After the debuff expires, or when it is dispelled, the target explodes, dealing 690 damage to all enemies within 10 yards (at max rank).
Living Bomb deals fire damage, and thus gains the benefit of the talents Impact, Ignite, Burning Soul, Master of Elements, Critical Mass, Fire Power, Pyromaniac, and Precision.
As with all mage spells capable of critical hits Arcane Instability, Spell Power, Molten Fury, Playing with Fire and Shatter can increase the effective damage output of this spell.
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Rank table
| Rank | Level | DoT (Damage over Time) | Direct Damage | Cost |
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| 1 | 60 | 612 | 306 | Talent |
| 2 | 70 | 1024 | 512 | 45
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| 3 | 80 | 1380 | 690 | 67 50
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Uses
- In raid situations, Living Bomb is a considerable DPS increase, and keeping it up constantly can theoretically boost DPS by up to 10%.
Its instant casting, damage on the move and delayed boom effects are considerably useful effects that make the Fire Mage vastly more mobile and versatile. The explosion proves valuable as an additional source of critical strikes to help process the Hot Streak effect.
Its AoE benefits on raid trash clearance are negligible since it takes too long to complete and does not trigger on its target's death (meaning it will often be wasted).
- With the addition of [Glyph of Living Bomb], the periodic damage can be critical strikes. As of patch 3.2, critical strikes from the periodic damage can now also trigger Ignite. Hot Streak procing on periodic Living Bomb damage was live with 3.2, but quickly hotfixed [1].
- In PvP, Living Bomb adds to the Fire Mage's mobile DPS a lot and prevents dispels on enemy targets in fear of the AoE damage trigger.
Notes
During the beta of Wrath of the Lich King, the original effect of the spell was to make the caster themselves the Living Bomb, doing AOE damage to enemies within 10 yards, with a final explosion doing more damage. The spell was criticized as the damage was very low. The spell was then changed to be a castable debuff, but again was criticized for it's low damage. A mana-burn was added to the final explosion, burning off an amount of mana equal to the damage to the target, but the spell was still criticized. Eventually the damage was increased, the mana-burn was removed, and a knock-up effect was added to the final explosion, which knocked the target up into the air. This effect was removed before the spell was released.
Patch changes
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Hot Streak is now also affected by Living Bomb.
Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Can now be cast on multiple targets at the same time.
Hotfix (2009-08-06): "Hot Streak triggers exactly as stated in its tooltip: “2 non-periodic spell criticals in a row using Fireball, Fire Blast, Scorch, Living Bomb, or Frostfire Bolt”. Only non-periodic damage interacts with it, and only those spells listed. Periodics do not affect the streak in any way. Direct damage from the listed spells always count, for or against the streak."
References
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Crygil 2009-08-06. Recent Living Bomb and Hot Streak Changes. Archived from the original on 2009-08-06. Retrieved on 2009-08-06.
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