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For the sword with the same name, see Inv sword 1h artifactfelomelorn d 01 [Felo'melorn].
Flamestrike
Spell fire selfdestruct
  • Flamestrike
  • Level 12 Fire mage ability
  • 40 yd range
  • 2.5% of base mana
  • 3.5 sec cast
  • Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for (58.9324% of Spell power) Fire damage and reducing their movement speed by 20% for 8 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Properties
Class Mage
School Fire
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned 12
Improvements Spell mage flameorb [Flame Patch], Ability warlock inferno [Fuel the Fire], Spell fire burnout [Hyperthermia], Inv misc volatilefire [Pyromaniac], Ability mage firestarter [Sun King's Blessing], Spell fire selfdestruct [Surging Blaze]
Related debuff
Spell fire selfdestruct
  • Flamestrike
  • Movement speed slowed by 20%.
  • Duration: 8 seconds

Flamestrike is a Fire mage ability.

Trivia[]

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-08-21): Damage reduced by 6%.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-08-07): Damage decreased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-07-18): Damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
    • Flamestrike has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 12 (was a row 3 Fire talent).
    • Damage increased by 12%.
    • Cast time reduced to 3.5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 15%.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-12-05): Damage increased by 8%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 talent (was a level 17 ability). Ranks 2 and 3 removed.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Damage reduced by 10%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 3 added at level 52: Damage increased by 15%.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2020-11-16): Damage reduced by 8%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 17 (was 20). Rank 2 added at level 43: Cast time reduced by 0.5 seconds.
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2018-09-10): Damage increased by 15%.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Snare effect reduced to 20%, down from 50%. Spell power co-efficient reduced to 57.5% (was 271.4%).
  • Legion Patch 7.2.0 (2017-03-28): Base mana cost reduced to 2.5%, down from 3%. Spell power co-efficient increased.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-01-17): Flamestrike now deals 90% damage in PvP situations (was 100%).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage increased by 27%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 15%. Now learned at level 20, down from level 44.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Cast time increased to 4 sec (was 2 sec). No longer causes additional damage over time. Cooldown removed. New spell animation.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-07-20): Flamestrike damage increased by 50%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now available only to Fire mages. Now only causes additional periodic damage to targets struck by initial damage, rather than leaving a persistent ground effect.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): New spell animation.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Now deals 100% more initial damage. Periodic damage remains unchanged.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now has a 12 sec cooldown, and slows enemies struck by the initial damage by 50%. New spell animation.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now costs 30% of base mana (was 35%). Now trainable at level 44 (was 16).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Some ranks of this spell had an incorrect cast time of 3 seconds. All ranks now share a 2-second cast time.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Fixed a bug where area of effect periodic damage spells were being resisted more frequently than they should have been when casting lower level ranks of the spell (affected spells included Flamestrike).

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