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Nether Tempest
Spell mage nethertempest
  • Nether Tempest
  • Row 6 Arcane mage talent
  • 40 yd range
  • 1.5% of base mana
  • Instant
  • Places a Nether Tempest on the target which deals (22.5636% of Spell power) Arcane damage over 12 sec to the target and nearby enemies within 10 yds. Limit 1 target. Deals reduced damage to secondary targets.

    Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge.
Properties
Class Mage
School Arcane
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required Spell arcane arcane01 [Resonance] or Ability mage arcanebarrage [Mana Adept]
Related debuff
Spell mage nethertempest
  • Magic
  • Nether Tempest
  • Deals (1.8803% of Spell power) Arcane damage and an additional (1.8803% of Spell power) Arcane damage to all enemies within 8 yards every 1 sec.
  • Duration: 12 seconds

Nether Tempest is an Arcane mage talent.

Patch changes

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-07-24): Damage increased by 150% in PvP Combat.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-12-16): Fixed an issue with Nether Tempest not always applying to your currently selected target.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 talent (was a level 35 talent).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now requires level 35 (was 90). Now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-01-23): Damage increased by 8%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage reduced by 15%.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now requires level 90 (was 75). Damage is now increased by 60% per Arcane Charge (was 50%).
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-12-08): Damage increased by 10%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
    • Now available only to Arcane (was all three specializations).
    • Now has a target limit of 1 (was unlimited). Secondary damage is now 100% of primary damage (was 50%) and hits all enemies near the target (was 1 enemy near the target). Damage can now be increased by Arcane Charges.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Now deals 85% damage to players (was 70%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-03-15): Now deals 70% of its damage when used against other players (was 100%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-03-12): Now deals 40% more damage.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2012-10-04): Mages have learned to stop hitting themselves with Nether Tempest.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2012-10-01): No longer strikes targets the mage is not already in combat with.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.

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