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Purge

Purge

16.4% of base mana	30 yd range

Instant
Requires Shaman
Requires level 12

Purges the enemy target, removing 1 beneficial Magic effect.

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n/a

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Nature

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Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

16.4% of base mana

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

Dispel (Magic)
Value: 1

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Comment by ajmontroy

Can be very useful for dispelling Frost Armor, inner fire, and Power Word: Shield. Also, it's pretty fun to purge Auras and Blessings.

Comment by ajmontroy

Can be very useful for dispelling Frost Armor, inner fire, and Power Word: Shield. Also, it's pretty fun to purge Auras and Blessings.

Comment by boo9ni

for anny pretty new shaman, THIS IS YOUR WAY TO WIN PVP! it is the one of two spells that you will be loved and hated for. imagine a priest shielding self, and you just: PURGE! the shield is down, and the priest has 15 sec CD and alot of wasted mana! when i PVP i have put it on my hotbar, key one. do not underestimate the power of this tool!

Comment by handymand

people this is not good for a mage when they are trying to jump away this spell also works on slow fall so if a mage use slow fall
then kill him :)

Comment by helmers

This is the I-win button against paladins. Remove their buffs at start, and then at regular intervals. They will perform much worse without their buffs, and most likely spend a lot of time recasting them.

Comment by DELPylon

Can be used to remove Mind Control off allies.

Comment by wolfblood

Just a quick question, can Purge dispell the Power Word: Shield of the priest ?

Comment by Kuipo

Good to note, purge can not be used to remove a pally's self bubble, but can be used to remove the pally bubble on other players (Blessing of Protection).

Comment by cooespooh

Now, what would REALLY be great is if this spell also slowed the movement speed of the target like it does in Warcraft 3.

Comment by tinyhitman

See it as a nice 1265 dmg against a shielded priest. (1455 with talents)
also think of Disc priests with reflective shields which is somewhat 600 to 700 dmg LESS to heal.

Comment by defektunge

Note that Purge isn't just a PvP ability. There are a number of raid fights where you need to remove buffs from a boss. The Romulo & Juliette fight in Karazhan comes to mind, along with Hex Lord Malacrass in Zul'Aman. In addition, there are plenty of times when a player gets mind controlled and you can use Purge to remove it.

Comment by biggmacc

I find purge incredibly useful in arena when dealing with SL/SL locks. I run a 2v2 team with myself (an MS warrior) and a resto shaman. We immediately focus on the lock's pet, and once the pet is down, the lock loses soul link, making him extremely vulnerable to me. However, many locks try to counter this with Fel domination, so my shaman partner immediately purges it as soon as it comes up. We have won many games this way. Just FYI

Comment by vavavavooom

i use and love this spell, it can be the make and break against a priest, druid, lock, and mage. though you cannot break pally bubbles, you can break frost barrier, mana shield, and PWS. druid will do worse without HOTs (obviously) and without mark of the wild, i have seen druid pop out of their form to reuse mark while in mid combat. clearly not the best druid, but i did not mind. it is a challenge, but i have gotten rid of the lock ability that allows faster casting summons before, which makes for a confusing encounter for them, and a much simpler one for me. you can also dispel a locks void bubble, which is a fantastic effect. when calculating the effect on priest, we not only see the damage reduced by pws, but also renew and pwf. renew is not very mana efficient, as any healing priest will tell you, and it is a easy to get them to spam this when you purge. dispelling pwf is one of the best choices you will make. if used in the beginning of combat, as i think it should be, you effectively do 79 stams worth of damage in an instant cast.

a funny side note, i caught a priest mage team using the mounted slowfall LM to BS trick and purged the priest, then watched him fall to his death. possibly my favorite kill ever, and the lesson learned was always be alert for purges and always use them to start.

edit: inner fire is a no-go on the dispell as of 3.0.9

Comment by Byzquk13

The proper way to purge is to pucker :o
/kiss

Comment by BlueMendari

Thoroughly useful utility spell in and out of pvp. Purges Winterfall Firewater from Winterspring furbolgs. Also makes for a useful annoyance versus other shamans by removing their Shield spells.

Comment by fenoglio

mage have pretty much the same, but only gets rid of 1, as well as giving you that buff... what do you think is more useful?

Comment by ZPerch

A lot of PvP comments here, I just thought I'd add a little useful PvE knowledge. This can be used against the deathknight boneshield in Military quarter (naxx) which can make those trash pulls all the more painless and quick

Comment by DaGame

I was thinking if you can purge divine shield. Since its a magic. Any one know?

Comment by shadowhorse

I have some questions about this spell.

1.Can it remove the druid bear spell Frenzied regeneration?
2.Can it remove the herbalism Lifeblood spell?
3.Can it remove feral end talent Berserk?
4.Can it remove rage generating bear spell Enrage?

Comment by prote

spaming purge is possibly the fastest way to kill a tree in arena. It happened to me two times: my friend killed his partner and it was down to me against a very good geared tree, once on my mage and the other time on my shammy. Obviously my mage went down as I couln't steal his heals fast enough and he just went out of tree form every few seconds to use DoTs (moonfire, Insect Swarm) and remained in the tree form most of the time with his OP HoTs. But when I met with him again in the same situation but on my shammy he just went OOM as I purged the sh*t out of him xD

Comment by opaqueue

Note that a discipline priest using Pain Suppression can give a 65% protection from purges to a friendly target, and together with the talent silent resolve, can stack to 95% chance for a purge to fail.

This can spell disaster for a shaman spamming purge, as 3 GCDs wasted on failed purges can often lose a fight. Be sure to monitor it and avoid purging while it's on.

Comment by MaximusD

Can you "purge" a Druid's Cyclone spell, meaning can you cast "Purge" on a friendly target affected by Druid's Cyclone?

Comment by MakaB

(purged)

Comment by Arannia

No longer quite as powerful against Holy Paladins due to the reduced reliance on Sacred Shield and Beacon of Light to fufill their optimal healing duty in PvP. Absolutely still do so but know it won't totally cripple them anymore. And you're going to need to eat through quite a number of beneficial buffs given to them via talents to get to the real meat.

Comment by Sacrosterion

Does it purge bubble on a pala?

Comment by smardm

Purges...what? Two effects! But that will make Shamans OP. *grumble* Where did I put that nerf bat
...

Comment by MatiSali23

WoW's best spell ever.

Comment by marcinNT5

Very helpfull in Cataclysm. Especially on Maloriak to dispell his "Remedy"(healing spell). It's almost impossible to kill that boss without Shaman or Mage to Purge/Spellsteal that. Concerns PVP : don't try to purge all of the Druid healing spells from him becouse you will run out of mana very fast.

Comment by elderhook

You do not need to face your target to purge them.

Comment by ivalius

Does this spell do extra damage to monsters with mutations?

Comment by Tripster

I don't know about anyone else, but right now, this spell feels pretty watered-down. With the dispel reduced to 1 effect, you would waste valuable gcd purging enemies, especially if they have many buffs applied, and you're only trying to remove the shield. It also does not benefit from Mental Quickness of Enh shammies, but I guess mana isn't a huge issue. Another thing I keep encountering is that my purge seems to be constantly resisted by casters, probably because an Enh shammy has low spell hit rating. I'm not too sure how these stats work, but I believe that is the source of the problem.
It would be nice if Enh had their own version of Elemental Precision, not dependent on spirit.

Comment by natonos

this ability is definetelly weak in cata since other classes based on magic have gained many other new abilities with buffs and tring to dispel just 1 dam shield or paly wings makes u waste more than 6 secs sometimes and by the ti8me u finish u are dead. we need the 2 buffs purge back to still be competitive in this domain against other classes.

Comment by Enquillion

When Blizzard changed dispels to work even on targets lacking anything to dispel, that made Purge a fantastic pulling tool as far as shamans go. Especially if you're doing a low level dungeon at 90 with targets that will die to a shock and thus not end up in your AoE loot pile, and your only other options are Wind Shear (which is great - but the CD) and flat out running into them, this is just awesome. <3

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