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Rain of Fire

Rain of Fire

8% of base mana, plus 8% per second	35 yd range

Channeled
Requires Warlock (Destruction)
Requires level 21

Burns enemies in the area of effect for [(18.75% of Spell power) * 8] Fire damage over 6 sec, dealing 50% increased damage to targets affected by Immolate.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

6 seconds

School

Fire

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

8% of base mana, plus 8% per second

Range

35 yards (Medium-Long)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Persistent Area Aura: Dummy
Value: 50
Radius: 8 yards
Server-side script

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell
Interval: 1 second

	Rain of Fire

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Comment by ShadeofChaoS

Why blizz don't wanna add crits to lock AoE??
Gief plz :D

Comment by darkarsenic

Basic AoE, does have a 1-2% chance of stunning the mobs every pulse with Pyroclasm. Hellfire does do more damage, but hurts you in the process, use this if you are low on health or don't want to damage yourself.

Comment by Rainyd

As of patch 2.4:
This spell spawns at small pile of bones in the middle of the target area, after the spell is over it despawns. Unsure if this is intentional to be used as a guide for dragging mobs into the damage or if this is just a small visual bug.

Comment by Doomwalker

Any one else seen the little skeletal remains that spawn on the point where you cast the spell?It's cool.

Comment by Felrath1

Spellpower coefficient changed in wotlk beta to 115% over 8 seconds (or about 29% per tick). This can now also crit and being a destruction spell means it benefits from Ruin and Devastation.

Comment by aarbgick

This spell combined with other Destruction talents = major DPS. While doing some AoE pulls I was doing almost 3k damage each time this thing ticked and crit, and 1500 when it didn't crit.

RoF is amazing now that it can crit.

Comment by Limbero

This spell has a new animation as of 3.0.8.

Comment by Derreklock

Very cool, the pyrotechnics display is worth the mana cost. :)

This spell is a targeted AoE. Point-and-click mass destruction! =P

This does not apply a DoT on the targets ( although that would be a nice upgrade, considering what Mages get with Blizzard ).

Not as good as talented-up Blizzard that mages get for soloing, but absolutely wonderful when you have a good tank with you. VW and Felguard should work well with this, provided you watch the threat meter. The damage output does not justify the channeling time you lose when there are mobs hitting you.

Most of you have seen Rain of Fire at one time or another. You can't miss it. A hail of flaming meteors falling from the sky.

Patch 3.0.8 significantly upgraded the graphical effect. It used to be exactly as described above from start to finish. Now, there is a small explosion at ground-level, followed immediately by a glowing red magic circle that starts small and rapidly expands to cover the entire Area of Effect. At the same time, flaming meteors begin to rain down from the sky. The meteor shower falls at a slight angle to the ground, but is contained inside the magic circle. Upon impact, the meteors explode into globs of hot rocks. When the spell ends, the meteors stop falling and the magic circle fades away.

I like the new magic circle effect, but some people complain that now the Horde people can see exactly where the AoE is targeted and simply avoid the red circle on the ground. The same applies to Mage's Blizzard ( they got the same kind of effect upgrade, only blue and icy and somehow more magic-ey looking ).

Very useful in all instances and battlegrounds.

Three cheers to whatever genius at Blizzard Entertainment thought this up.

Comment by Toldry

Before the fiery circle animation starts, there will be a small combustion animation at the place you cast the rain of fire spell.

Comment by Daretocarebear

Do you need to have a target or does this work like a Rogue's Distract, a Mage's Blizzard and a Druid's Tranquility?

Comment by Tobbznen

At level 38, this spell costs 666 mana for a Human Warlock.

Comment by silkfire

Got itself a new graphic in patch 3.3.3.

Comment by Triumphator

What about rogues? Does it break stealth?

Comment by rebornMCW

They look like garbage now. Change em back!

Comment by epd19

If you're uncertain if you should be using rain of fire or hellfire, here's why you should use rain of fire:

1. Rain of fire can crit, hellfire cannot.
2. Rain of fire's tooltip shows a lower dps than hellfire, but rain of fire has a higher spell power coefficient. The exact amount of SP depends on your crit %, but if you have around 2000 spell power rain of fire will do more dps than hellfire.
3. Rain of fire can be used from a range. If you're far from enemies there's a higher threshold for pulling aggro than if you're standing next to them.
4. Obviously, rain of fire doesn't hurt you. Hellfire does.

Both deal fire damage so I don't think there are any talents that affect one spell and not the other.

Comment by akanibbles

Of the few times I've used ROF, on trash mobs, I've been hit with 'ROF.... WTF?' 'ROF? funniest thing I've seen for ages' type comments in chat.

Why does it generate this reaction? As a demo lock, I use Hellfire but generally only in demon form. Just feel ROF would save me health at times, but reactions like this make me hesitant - am I missing something on the DPS output?

Comment by Allyosaugh

I was disappointed that 4 infernals didn't spawn from my 'rain' of fire spell.

Comment by Alnair

Destro Locks cast this instantly and do not need to channel it, which means you can cast Rain of Fire over several areas at once so that the attack covers a vast portion of the terrain. For example, you can preemptively place several RoFs along the path you expect moving targets to run.

However a target can only recieve damage from one cast of RoF at any given time so there is no point to overlapping two different casts of RoF on the same pack of mobs.

Comment by Nazarene83

Now in M.o.P. rain of fire is castable as desto and u can re cast to have multiples going at the same time and they do multiply the damage if they are all hitting the same target you can also cast them in multiple spots to cover a larger area

Comment by Pipkins

When targeted on the corner of a wall the meteors will sometimes all fall on the same spot.

Comment by LafinJack

Crits on critters does build .1 ember.

Comment by demisemelody

the buff's spell id is 104232, if you need addon to keep it.

Comment by Strumbeard

11/25/14 - "Rain of Fire's damage has been reduced by 60% and no longer generates Burning Embers."

Well then. There goes that utility. Wonder why they chose to nerf it so bad?

Comment by HaleStorm87

"no longer generates Burning Embers"

I'm burning inside >:(

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