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Backdraft
Ability warlock backdraft
  • Backdraft
  • Row 3 Destruction warlock talent
  • Passive
  • Conflagrate reduces the cast time of your next Incinerate, Chaos Bolt, or Soul Fire by 30%. Maximum 2 charges.
Properties
Class Warlock
Talents
Talent required Spell fire fireball [Conflagrate]
Other information
Affects Spell fire fireball [Conflagrate]
Related buff
Ability warlock backdraft
  • Magic
  • Backdraft
  • Incinerate, Soul Fire, and Chaos Bolt cast times reduced by 30%.
  • Duration: 10 seconds

Backdraft is a Destruction warlock talent. It reduces the cast time of Spell fire burnout [Incinerate] and Ability warlock chaosbolt [Chaos Bolt] for 5 seconds after the warlock casts Spell fire fireball [Conflagrate].

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 Destruction talent (was a level 14 Destruction ability). Now also affects Spell fire fireball02 [Soul Fire].
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a level 14 Destruction ability (was a level 15 Destruction talent).
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-02-21): Backdraft reduces the cast time of Chaos Bolt and Rain of Fire by 15% in PvP situations (was 30%).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now reduces the cast time of your next two Incinerates or Chaos Bolts by 30%. This stacks up to 4 charges.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now a level 15 Destruction talent (was a level 69 Destruction ability). No longer limited to 3 casts but now lasts for 5 seconds, down from 15 seconds.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Inv offhand 1h firelandsraid d 01 [Pyroclasm]'s effects have been merged into Backdraft: Chaos Bolt will be affected by Backdraft, but consumes three charges.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 69 Destruction ability (was a tier 3 Destruction talent) and no longer affects Spell shadow shadowbolt [Shadow Bolt] and Ability warlock chaosbolt [Chaos Bolt]. Now has a maximum of 6 charges.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2011-02-18): Instant-cast Shadow Bolts from Shadow Trance (both the talent and Inv glyph primewarlock [Glyph of Corruption] versions) should no longer consume charges of Backdraft if both procs are available. Shadow Trance will always take priority and be consumed first when Backdraft is active. Subsequent Shadowbolts will consume Backdraft stacks.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a Tier 3 talent (was Tier 9). Now only reduces the cast time of Spell shadow shadowbolt [Shadow Bolt], Spell fire burnout [Incinerate], and Ability warlock chaosbolt [Chaos Bolt] (was any Destruction spell).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Now also reduces the global cooldown of your next three Destruction spells by 10/20/30%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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