Mana Burn

Mana Burn
	Mana Burn; Priest ability; 30 yd range; 14% of base mana; 3 sec cast; Destroy 10% of the target's mana (up to a maximum of 20% of your own maximum mana). For each mana destroyed in this way, the target takes 0.5 Shadow damage.;
Properties
Class	Priest
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	[Improved Mana Burn]

[[Category:priest abilities]][[Category:priest abilities]]

Mana Burn is a Shadow-based Priest spell. It drains mana from the enemy, causing Shadow damage.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Cast time	Cost
1	24	3 seconds	50

Mana Burn will destroy 10% of the target's mana. If the actual amount is greater than 20% of your maximum mana, it will destroy only an amount equal to 20% of your maximum mana. This is necessary to prevent Mana Burn from destroying too much mana on enemies with a very large mana pool.
Mana Burn will instantly break Fear, Hex and Psychic Scream.
Mana Burn has some strange behaviour in combination with the Shadow tree. It works with [Shadow Weaving], [Shadowform] and [Vampiric Embrace]. However, it does not benefit from [Darkness], [Shadow Focus] or [Shadow Reach]. [Shadow Affinity] probably does not affect it as well.
Its threat simply depends on its damage and follows normal rules; the mana drain does not cause any additional threat.

Improved Mana Burn reduces the casting time of Mana Burn.
Force of Will increases spell damage and critical strike chance for all offensive spells.

Mana Burn is useful both in PvE and PvP. It can be used against enemy spell casters in PvE to prevent them from casting their spells, especially healing spells. In PvP this spell is helpful against healing classes.
With [Improved Mana Burn], its effectiveness can be raised enormously. In addition, its susceptibility to interrupt effects can be reduced.
Combined with a shadow spec'd priest's Vampiric Embrace, Mana Burn can be an amusing and effective way to use the target's mana to heal your party (while damaging them in the process).

Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Fixed a bug where Mana Burn did not cause fear effects to break when the fear victim had an absorb shield on.
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Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Now burns a percentage of maximum mana, only one rank remains.

Mana Burn
Mana Burn Priest ability 30 yd range 14% of base mana 3 sec cast Destroy 10% of the target's mana (up to a maximum of 20% of your own maximum mana). For each mana destroyed in this way, the target takes 0.5 Shadow damage.
Properties
Class	Priest
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	[Improved Mana Burn]