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Hurricane

Hurricane

10% of base mana	35 yd range

Channeled
Requires Druid
Requires level 42

A Solar spell that creates a violent storm in the target area causing (15.825% of Spell power) Nature damage to enemies every 1 sec. Lasts 10 sec. Druid must channel to maintain the spell.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

10% of base mana

Range

35 yards (Medium-Long)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Persistent Area Aura: Decrease Run Speed %
Mechanic: Snared
Radius: 8 yards

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell
Interval: 1 second

	Hurricane

Effect #4

Persistent Area Aura: Mod All Damage Done % by Caster
Radius: 8 yards
Affected Spells:

	Sunfire		Moonfire		Moonfire
	Starfall

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Comment by ninjasoldat

Even though the damage is poor compared to other AoE spells, the debuff on this spell makes it very useful for slowing mobs attacking other players. Namely people who are spamming AoE spells.

Simply wait for your mage friend to start spamming his spell, then toss out your Hurricane. It can make it easier for your healer to heal the mage through the damage. Not to mention add a little bit of your own.

If you HAVE to use this spell as the main source of AoE (meaning you will have all the aggro) be sure to cast Barkskin on yourself before hand. you will take 20% less damage and your Hurricane will last longer than .5 seconds.

Comment by Lilleond

Next patch this become even more powerful!

No longer channeled, target an area and it will be there, does same damage and all, but no need to channel, so you'll can use this much more in PvP.

Not to mention you can still use wrath, starfire, roots, moonfire etc. while this is up now. Making it an exellent damage source in PvP nd PvE

Comment by Lilleond

I'm a level 48 moonkin druid. And i think this spell is very nice. Sometimes i pull up to 5 mobs with dots, pop barkskin and hurricane. It does quite alot of damage, but easily interrupted if you don't know how to use it.

This spell is very underestimated by people after my experince. Also very useful in ZF at the Divino-Matic Rod part, i AoE tanked each 1 min in the event. Very fun.

Comment by sillyllama

This spell is mainly useful for doing a trinket, barksin, hurricane to clear out a large amount of mobs when you're running an instance. I rarely use this spell because of its enormous mana cost, because if I miss a stealthed rogue, there goes almost 1/4 of my mana.

Comment by cooespooh

Also very entertaining to use in Booty Bay during a heavy rain storm, especially if you have a number of fellow druids to enhance the effect with their own hurricane spells.

If you choose to do this, yell something along the lines of a warning to give the watchers a giggle.

Comment by Lt5kA

does this destealthes targets? like blizzard or arcane explosion?

Comment by cooespooh

If you really want to slow down a group of mobs (and make some wicked effects) use Hurricane in conjunction with a frost mage's Blizzard. The hurricane will give a 25% attack speed reduction, and the blizzard will give a 65% movement speed reduction (provided the mage has all the ranks of the Improved Blizzard talent), making very slow enemies.
The look of the ice coming from the clouds is pretty cool, too.

Comment by Robyn

The removal of the cooldown is just such an awesome addition to the Moonkin arsenal... it basically means that halfway through the fight you can go AoE crazy with Hurricane, cutting incoming damage to the tank by 50% and if you grab aggro off some or all mobs, well Moonkin is fairly well armoured and can take a decent beating. Moonkin AoE offtanks here we come!

Although I have to say - ouch on the mana cost... you'd have Barkskin up if you want to get full value since you're basically paying 3k mana up-front for a 4.5k-damage AoE.

Comment by parprapa

Right now in the WotLK beta, the cooldown on Hurricane has been removed. What's more, you can spend two talent points in Gale Winds to increase its damage by 50%.

Comment by Zanazua

Seriously the coolest druid spell.

Comment by diaperrash89

Can't wait to try out the new hurricane on my balance druid, along with starfall and typhoon. This will make balance drudis even more raid viable now with an actual AoE arsenal

Comment by James

Amazing screenie. (Wyrms before Vexallus in MgT?) Nice job.

Comment by moondude

does any1 know what the mana cost will be in wrath. it just seems that 81% base mana seems like a lot to me.

Comment by Senoinus

Rank1 of this spell can prove to be useful for dps-ferals on boss fights that contain soft-enrages (see illidan) where it is important to do everything you can to minimize the incoming damage on the tank. Since hurricane reduces the attack speed of a boss by 25% it can reduce the incoming damage on the tank significantly on those crucial seconds that the enrage occurs so as to allow healers to adapt to it.

Comment by fyerbug

As of 3.0, Hurricane can now crit, making it quite godly. Also, it works very well when in moonkin form because all the crits activate the mana regen buff. I just ran Heroic Sethekk Halls and was using this at the start of most pulls and for the big groups of owls.... With the owl groups I ended up with double to triple the mana cost of hurricane given back to me!

Comment by Drunkard

As a moonkin on live (3.0.2), i have found out that i can cast this indefinately, with Moonkin Form you gain 2% of your total mana every time you crit with hurricane, assuming you have 20% crit and have 2 targets in your hurricane you will on average gain 8% total mana back.
Factor in Omen of Clarity, which can proc every time hurricane deals damage, your next hurricane will be free and you will get the mana gain from the aforementioned Moonkin Form.
I can say with the utmost confidence that you will NEVER run out of mana while using this (against 2 or more targets).

Though this will not work in the lastest beta build (3.0.3.9095 ) as the moonkin form mana gain will now only work with single target spells (source:http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=11296489266&pageNo=1&sid=2000#5)

Comment by Angelcrusher

Will Hurricane's debuff apply to bosses? If so, it's likely that raids will include a Druid specifically assigned to maintaining the debuff. This is especially useful during encounters with an Enrage ability.

Comment by Drenvion

This has a chance procs the clearcasting of Omen of Clarity each time it deals damage.

EDIT: Why downranking this comment? It's true, edited the spellingmisstake which didn't imply that it has a chance to procc on each tick.

Comment by Zanazua

By far, the coolest druid spell.

Comment by daxaar

Along with the fantastic AOE this spell gives us Druids, I must add that this is also one of the best looking spell animations in the game IMHO.

Bread and butter for the Moonkin's but don't overlook this one Restos whilst leveling.

Comment by uffeman

This is getting buffed in 3.1.0 by the changes to Nature's grace.

From -0.5 sec cast time, it's changing to 20% spell haste for 3 secs which knocks this spell down to 8,3 sec channeling time (before other haste effects).

Pretty neat.
(While it's a short duration, if it doesn't crit at least every 2 secs you should try actually aiming it at something.)

Comment by grumpyoldman

Interesting tidbit:

if you try casting hurricane while in tree form it will start casting but as soon as it knocks you out of treeform it will cancel the channel and not toss a single lightning bolt down.

the intial cast seems to have something to do with this, as it procs both illistration and solace trinkets. solace only procs on helpful spells so there must be a component of the initial cast that wow is thinking of being a buff to yourself.

Comment by spollo

Here it is. Rock you like a Hurricane.

Musical puns abound with this spell.

Comment by UndeadFire

Remember that you can pull a whole pack of mobs, pop barkskin and aoe the !@#$ out of them.

If balance, use starfall prior to channeling hurricane.

Comment by Unlessitsafarm

When battling several opponents and his launchable limbs are on a cooldown, this is the AoE the Vagineer prefers.

Comment by themguyman

how wide is the area is it like rain of fire range or is it samller

Comment by Hyperlynx

HERE I AM!

ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE

Comment by blandy

Don't forget this spell has a 100% crit. chance on coastal cities.

Comment by Jrubzjeknf

As a resto druid, I remember going around HoT'ing up, pulling many mobs and then thundering the living nether out of them. With the AoE nerfs Blizzard have made and the adjustments to this spell, this tactic is no longer viable. For Resto, this spell hits like a wet noodle and I've not even bothered putting it on my spell bar any more.

Comment by theBMhunter

In 4.3 Hurricane gets a spell update and now looks like lightning/ wind funnels.

Comment by Ramdomize

This spell's effect is going to be significantly approved in 4.3. Instead of just having random bolts of lighting striking down, it's going to have little tornadoes flying around the targeted area as well. Whether tornadoes properly represent a hurricane is a good question, but it will give a much better appearance than the old effect.
While it will look awesome, it will still do crap AoE damage and sadly it won't be seen much, unless the new effect is added to enemy mobs.

Comment by Hrenyo

This is apparently getting an arcane version in 4.3, to soften the differnce between Lunar eclipse and Solar eclipse in AoE.
Also, it does not seem to be affected by Clearcasting (anymore), which is annoying because it eats up mana like crazy but procs CC on nearly every cast.

Comment by Auryk

Effects which reduce the duration of snares also causes Hurricane to not last the full duration. This is a "Known Issue" as per the 4.3.0 Known Issues List on the World of Warcraft Bug Report forum.

Comment by DemonDan43v3r

Just submitted some images of the updated animation and here's a link to a video showing it in action wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=aqHYGHQdP54 :)

Comment by unholly

this much animation to a spell like this... really overuse of resources...

Comment by ontera

Smaug's wings.

Comment by perculia

Astral Storm is the version when Hurricane is cast during a Lunar Eclipse as Balance.

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