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Soulburn

Soulburn
1 Soul Shard

Instant cast	1 sec cooldown

Requires Warlock (Affliction)
Requires level 19

Consumes a Soul Shard, enhancing some of your spells: Summon Demon, Demonic Circle: Teleport, Seed of Corruption, and Soul Swap.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

30 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

1 Soul Shard

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 second

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Modifies Cast Time (10)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
Affected Spells:

	Summon Felhunter		Summon Imp		Summon Succubus
	Summon Voidwalker		Soul Swap

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Power Cost (14)
Affected Spells:

	Demonic Circle: Teleport		Summon Felhunter		Summon Succubus
	Summon Voidwalker		Summon Imp		Seed of Corruption

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Modifies Effect #1's Value (3)
Value: 140%
Affected Spells:

	Health Funnel

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Comment by Chickenspine

Three use limit while in combat.
regens out of combat.

I cannot wait for instant soul fire!

Comment by Artex

Summon Demon + Soul Burn = summon the demon instantly.
Drain Life + Soul Burn = Reduces cast speed by 60%.
Demonic Circle + Soul Burn = Increases movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds after teleporting.
Unstable Affliction + Soul Burn = Instantly deals damage equal to 30% of its effect.
Soul Fire + Soul Burn = Instant cast.
Healthstone + Soul Burn = Increases total health by 20% for 8 seconds.
Searing Pain + Soul Burn = Increases the crit chance by 100%, and subsequent Searing Pains by 50% for 6 seconds.
*Seed of Corruption + Soul Burn = Detonation will afflict Corruption on all enemy targets and refund the Soul Shard.

*Affliction only

Comment by killmurlocs

Imagine that if you were targeting a mob soul burn would do damage to the mob or is soul burn like burning your own soul for extra power.

Comment by killmurlocs

Dang I guess locks are gonna be running from raid bosses so they can drop combat and get their shards back. Drain soul should give shards in combat but seriously gimp your dps.

Comment by themguyman

does it have charges or can i cast as many of the spells listed during the 10 seconds

Comment by Tripster

If soulburn cools only when out of combat, then it would be smart to use it right before the fight starts so you can get another one. Or did I get something wrong?

Comment by spore83

I think this may be my favorite new spell. I love how in Cata, locks will be the "cooldown class" with the ability to pop at least 3 different epic damage boosts at a time.

And thats not counting trinkets or the 2 more cooldowns demo locks get.

Comment by n4rt0n

Soulburn + Unstable Affliction is not working, or it has been removed from the list :-S

Comment by Brunpal

Sample Soulburn Macro:
#showtooltip Soul Fire
/use 13
/use 14
/use 10
/cast Soul Fire; Soulburn
/cast Soul Fire
/petattack
On a normal press it will activate both trinkets and your gloves on use ability. Then it will cast Soul Fire. If your pet is not in combat, it sends your pet in to attack.

Right click does all the above PLUS consumes a shard and the Soul Fire will be empowered and instant.

Comment by Sirphia

the resouce it uses (soulshards) do not regenerate in combat.

Not if you able to cast Drain soul on adds, Shadowburn too

The "cool down" off combat thing is just the illusion of Soul havest, which is a Quality of Life spell instead of the only way to gain shard.
You aren't really able to gain shard after a boss wipe which there most likely don't have any adds left for shard.

Comment by tcrosen

How to get a free (4th) Soul Burn for every boss fight:

I have been using this effectively since 4.01

Begin approximately 7 seconds before boss pull (either communicate with tanks or watch DBM combat countdown if RP):

~7 seconds until combat - /cast Soul Burn
~6.5-6 seconds until combat - /cast Soul Harvest
~3 seconds until combat - Soul shard replenished by now

Combat begins - You now have ~8 seconds to use your free Soul Burn

Note the longer you can give yourself (and wait) to use the Soul Burn (generally for Soul Fire) the better as tanks will generally need the time to gain threat.
~~For Destro it is especially effective as it will proc your > 80% haste buff which could potentially give you an extra one of those procs before the cooldown is up and the boss is still > 80%.~~

Edited for since the 80% requirement is now removed and Destro is the only spec that can use the buff.

Comment by Xebenatros

what does the Soulburn effect of Drain Life work exactly, I'm not understanding its benefit, I do like the instant Soul Fire effect, its pretty nice and saves a lot of time and spell use.

Comment by tcrosen

What if you are fighting a boss with minions and you use Drain Soul or Shadowburn on a dying minion? Won't that allow you to use more than 3 Soulburns in one session of combat?
No because minions (adds) during boss fights do not reward experience or honor.

Comment by Volviga

It might be me, but I seem to be able to get more than one effect from a Soulburn:
- I activated Soulburn
- Started casting Searing Pain
- The moment Searing Pain is cast I hit the Soul Fire button.

Maybe it is just coincidence, but everytime I do it this way, Searing Pain is a crit and Soulfire is an instant cast. I don't get the +50% crit chance afterwards, so I might have been extremely lucky...

Edit: after some more testing, I realised Searing Pain's crit wasn't very specific to test it with, so I switched to the combination Soulburn + SoC. I was still able to cast both spells almost simultaniosly, but SoC didn't gave Corruption to all nearby targets, so I at least SoC doesn't benefit from it.

I'm probably wrong with my first statement, but well...^^

Comment by Horneyyy

1. Activate Soulburn.
2. Cast Searing Pain.
3. Cast any other spell that can be affected by soulburn.
4. ?
5. Profit.

Soulburn > Searing pain > (just as the cast is ending) Soulfire.

Searing pain will crit and Soulfire will be Instant cast.

Comment by Roxi

I wanted to add...

On Beta, if in combat and there were adds or mobs, and you did a drain soul or shadowburn - shards were replenished. This allowed for more than 3 Soul Burns if the fight lasted that long.

Second. Soul Burn + Seed of Corruption. This is especially nice for Affliction locks when any 'large' # of mobs is about. You SoC the 'main' mob. it goes off and spreads Corruption to all the mobs. Then you bring RoF down. With Corruption on multilple mobs, the chance to proc the 'free' SB is higher. RoF now that they buffed it, SB whenever it procs the nightfall or glyph.

Comment by Althizor

There are a lot of people saying that boss adds wouldn't generate soul shards with drain soul or shadow burn because they don't award experience or honor.

But that isn't true. -Most- boss adds proc those kinds of effects even at max level. It just means that if you could gain experience, it would have given you some.

Not all adds do though. So you may have to experiment to figure out which ones do and which ones don't. Its pretty random. Sometimes the 10k hp add counts but the 1 mil+ major boss add doesn't count.

Comment by Mage12322

Best avatar pic, only me and 37 others use it :D

Comment by Booyakashah

Hi, i'm looking for a macro for the instant Soul Fire but i wan't to see the Soulburn tooltip while it's on cooldown and when the cooldown is over i wan't to see the Soul Fire tooltip, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Comment by Freohr

Will be affected by 4pcT13 in Patch 4.3:

"4P -- Soulburn grants a 10% increase to your spell power for 10 sec, and Soul Fire cast with Soulburn active now grants a Soul Shard."

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3229376031

Comment by taohinton

Drain Life + Soul Burn = Cast time reduced by 50%
Summon Demon + Soul Burn = Summons the demon instantly
Demonic Circle: Teleport + Soul Burn = Increases movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds after teleporting
Soul Fire + Soul Burn = Instant cast
Healthstone + Soul Burn = Increases maximum health by 20% for 8 sec
+ Soul Burn = Increases the critical effect chance of your next Searing Pain by 100%, and your subsequent Searing Pain casts by 50% for 6 sec

For Affliction warlocks with T5 talent :

Seed of Corruption + Soul Burn = Your Seed of Corruption detonation effect will afflict Corruption on all enemy targets. The Soul Shard will be refunded if the detonation is successful.

Comment by Osodvus

Affliction results of Soulburn using the above list as a base:

Drain Life - Healing increased by 50%
Soulburn: Curse - Curse all enemies within 10 yards of the target NOTE: CoE is 15 yards
Soulburn: Demonic Circle: Teleport - Movement speed increased by 50% and you are immune to snares and roots for 8 secs.
Soulburn: Fear - NO EFFECT
Soulburn: Health Funnel - Instantly restores 36% health and reduces damage taken by 30% for 10 secs.
Soulburn: Seed of Corruption - Your Seed of Corruption will afflict Corruption on all enemy targets
Soulswap - Instantly applies Corruption, Unstable Affliction and Agony
Summon Demon - Instantly summons your demon. 60 second cooldown on next summon
Unending Breath - Water walking

Comment by GilbertoGrape

Does the Soulburn + Soul Swap combo benefit from Pandemic if cast on an enemy with one or more of your dots on it already?

Comment by sylancer

Soul Shards is the new resources for Affliction Warlock, one can have 4 Soul Shards max.
it generate by:

Corruption (7% chance per tick to generate 1 Soul Shards (Nightfall))
Drain Soul (+1 every 2 ticks; +3 if target die; on target less than 20% health, deals 2x damage and cause Corruption, Agony, Unstable Affliction, Seed of Corruption tick for 2x damage)

when and only when Warlock have at least 1 Soul Shards, these spells can be cast to consume 1 Soul Shards:

Haunt (increase damage the target take from the Warlock by 30% for 8 sec)
Soulburn (empower next spell to:

Soul Swap (applies Corruption, Agony, Unstable Affliction without requiring them to be removed from a previous target (Soulburn: Soul Swap)),
Seed of Corruption (detonation applies Corruption to all enemies within 10 yards of the target and generate 1 Soul Shards ()),
Summon Imp / Fel Imp / Voidwalker / Voidlord / Succubus / Shivarra / Felhunter / Observer (instant cast),
Drain Life (healing increased by 50%) / Harvest Life (healing increased by 33.3%),
Curse of the Elements / Enfeeblement / Exhaustion (afflict all enemies within 10 yards of the target ()),
Demonic Circle: Teleport (movement speed increased by 50% and immune to snares and roots for 8 sec ()),
Health Funnel (restores 140% more health and reduces damage taken by 30% for 10 sec to the target demon ()),
Unending Breath (allows target to walk on water for the duration))

Comment by jobjob

Soulburn together with Unending Breath, oh you will be missed in WoD.

Great has been your use, and yet your potential in Draenor was even bigger. But it was time to say goodbye, apparently you were merely a filler in our spellbook enough.

May you never be forgotten, and let us all hope this was merely a setback.

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