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Comment by Satarus

Fast cast time makes this the spell of choice against melee targets. Talents will give this the same cast time as the global cooldown and will give it a 70% chance to ignore extra cast time due to damage taken.

Comment by clovis6780

I don't know how notable this is, but with the talent to reduce cast time of wrath to 1.5 seconds, and when Nature's Grace procs, the cast time is then reduced to 1 second.

With rank 1 of Wrath and these talents, it would be a 0.5 second cast (which is rather pointless, but interesting).

In either case, the global cooldown is reduced according to the cast time of this spell while you're casting. So if the cast time was reduced to 1 second, the global cooldown then is 1 second, and you can cast anything at all again in 1 second. However, this applies while you're casting Wrath under these conditions.

Comment by Largos

Probably the best burst damage / high dps spell in the game. Beats other 1.5 cast spell just because it scales much better coming as a 2.0 cast spell.

Comment by Sempra

A quick blast of natural energy, Wrath is the basic attack spell for Druids who are just beginning their journey. The rank 1 has a fair mana cost and kills most targets in 3 shots. It also has a very quick cast.

Comment by ozzyotter

Interesting thing is when talented this spell is essentially as fast as an instant cast spell if you consider the gc.

Comment by bugeye999

About 1042 spell damage for an average of 1k a shot

Comment by Sinemon

This spell will get 57% of your +damage untalented, 62.7% of your +damage with Moonfury, 67% of your +damage with Wrath of Cenarius, and about 73.7% of your +damage with both Moonfury and Wrath of Cenarius. In addition, Moonfury will add an extra ~40 damage per cast regardless of your +dmg.

Comment by Sinemon

PreBC, some talents like Moonfury applied before +damage effects and therefore only increased base damage. However, if you've spent some time playing around with talents and watching their effects on damage over a few hundred or so casts, then it becomes clear that this is no longer the case. With Moonfury, you will be able to observe an increase in total damage (rather than base damage) with every point that you put into it. Unfortunately, I haven't personally done any testing regarding that in almost a year since BC came out, so instead of relying on anecdotal statements like that, I've decided to go do a quick, simple test.

The formula to find the highest damage a fully talented Wrath cast will do without critting, assuming that Moonfury does increase total damage rather than base damage, will be:
(BASE_DMG + (SPELL_DAMAGE * (2/3.5 + .1)) * 1.1

For those who may not see exactly how I arrived at that formula, the 2/3.5 is for the spell damage coefficient for wrath, the .1 added to it is for the bonus that Wrath of Cenarius will add, and the 1.1 at the end is for the effect of Moonfury

With 934 spell damage and the Idol of the Avenger (which, if you watch your tooltips in WoW, actually increases base damage of all Wraths by 25), my Wraths averaged about 1166 damage over 150 casts. The formula above states that my average Wrath should hit for 1161.358. If my assumption regarding the changed Moonfury was incorrect, the formula should have predicted a number around 60 higher than my test results yielded, and since this is not the case, I believe I am completely accurate in stating that Moonfury was changed from its intial state when BC was released and will have a noticable impact on the effectiveness of +damage with regards to Wrath.

Comment by Brudes

Wrath is a faster spell for direct damage(compared to the more powerful Starfire that you learn later). When there is a short interval for casting a ranged spell, use Wrath.

Comment by Brudes

Wrath is a faster spell for direct damage (compared to the more powerful Starfire that you learn later). When there is a short interval for casting a ranged spell, use Wrath.

Comment by Alikat

Huh. I was wondering why i was only getting ~1k damage with +800 spell and talents. Why the hell would they nerf your output? I mean, besides Blizz being bound and determined to make druids spam moonfire and oom as much as possible in PVP.

Comment by superbad

It does NOT have a 13% mana cost as this tooltip says, the first rank costs 6% of base mana.

Don't know if they changed this recently, but it is awesome. Just started leveling a druid, and they can really keep blasting away in the low levels.

Comment by Saaidh

Knoxpwns you are indeed correct, Tauren can finally cast more than 3 Wraths at a time.

Comment by bobthesnake

TL;DR: Wrath has a higher dps than Starfire when just spamming either one with all talents counted for. Also with enough crit and/or intellect Wrath actually has higher DPM than starfire (due to Moonkin Form (restore 2% max mana on crits))

Wrath may do slightly lower dps during Bloodlust because due to haste on your gear or in raid will push Wrath below a 1 second cast time and the GCD can't go below 1 second so it would lower your dps from Wrath (marginally).

Wrath Of Cenarius rank 5 coefficient added in brackets.
Wrath SP coefficient = 57.1% (67.1%) 1.5 second cast time so 134.2% of your spell power will be used in the same time it takes to cast Starfire (unless below 1second cast time). compared to:
Starfire SP coefficient = 100% (120%)
Average Wrath base damage = 588 (1176 in same time as one starfire)
Average Starfire base damage = 1120
Hence, regardless of spell power, Wrath will do more damage than Starfire, and will get even better as you stack more spell power.

Wrath costs 11% base mana
Starfire 16% base mana (couldn't find actual mana costs but the base mana costs still prove the point)

In Moonkin Form you'll restore 2% maximum mana on critical strike. If you have a big enough mana pool you can actually gain mana from a Wrath critical strike, whereas Starfire will always cost you mana (unless your mana pool is huge)

Due to all this, Wrath is your spell of choice for dps as a balance druid. However with Eclipse and Glyph Of Starfire you will be wanting the eclipse to proc off of Starfire (30% more damage on Wrath casts for 15 seconds) and you'll also want to get your extra duration on Moonfire.
PS: This is what boredom does.

Comment by volus

It's casting speed is still 1.50 sec

Comment by notwafle

With the updates they've given to the animations of Moonfire and Starfire, I think it's about time Wrath's had its terribly boring animation updated, as well!

Comment by 1nsd

2.5 sec cast

I hope they change that :( Especially with natures grace giving 1/2/3% spell haste now.

Comment by ndrw

Wrath is changing from being a 1.5 sec cast (talented) to a 2.0 second cast (talented too). I don't like this change, 'cause this 1.5 sec nuke was one of the best things moonkin had, now it's just like shaman's lightning bolt, getting benefit from eclipse instead of lightning mastery. I suposse Blizz made this change just to make lesser difference between wrath and the other nuke, starfire, which now is 2.7 sec cast (talented).

Comment by Talvanor

Does not generate Lunar Energy if you are under the effects of Lunar Eclipse, even if you have under 100 Lunar Energy.

Comment by darknesscalls

Generates 13.333 (repeating of course) lunar energy, not 13 as stated in the tooltip.

Comment by George14

If you put 2 points in , Wrath has no mana cost. This is in the Resto tree.

Comment by I3rawler

New spell effect AND more fitting icon in patch 4.3!

Comment by Gweryan

Here's a video of it.

Looks horrible in my opinion, I prefer the old one. Look too much like a holy bolt, but since it's the PTR, it might change.

Deleting because someone put a picture of it up after I put this comment up.

Comment by Aislinge

Can confirm the new changes to both the Wrath icon and the effect. The icon looks almost like sun lightning and the effect is like a sunbolt with a sound like electricity. Hard to explain but hopefully you get the idea :)

Comment by TheDancingTree

Finally,Wrath actually looks like something to do with solar energy in 4.3! After the cataclysm changes to the balance druid (Eclipse buffs) most of the "Solar Spells" a druid could use didn't look fitting- shooting bolts of green energy didn't suit the theme of Solar energy. But the new animation is much more updated and fitting to the theme :)

Comment by dakseg

All spell-schools have different colors. Nature is green for me. Not yellow. Now It's looks like how a holy priests spell!

Comment by Hemingray

Non-druids have a chance to temporarily gain this ability by using Overgrown Lilypad (a possible drop off the rare Sele'na).

Comment by Alnair

For Balance, this Spell generates 15 Lunar Energy while your eclipse state is moving from 100 Solar->0 Solar, and 30 Lunar Energy when your eclipse state is moving from 0 Lunar->100 Lunar. As soon as you reach Lunar Eclipse, stop using this spell!

DO NOT CAST THIS SPELL WHEN ARE YOUR ECLIPSE STATE IS MOVING FROM LUNAR TO SOLAR.

Comment by Tilpion

Why did they change the animation? The first one was more "natural".

Comment by wowwowy

I miss the old animation...

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Solar Wrath

Solar Wrath

3.5% of base mana	40 yd range

Instant

Causes (231% of Spell power) Nature damage to the target.

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Nature

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Normal

Cost

3.5% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

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GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

School Damage (Nature)
Value: 1 (SP mod: 2.31)

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