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Comment by heartlessnobody

Consumes 30% of your current Demonic Fury to deal up to (600% of Spell power) Shadowflame damage. The next time you have less than 40 Demonic Fury, all Demonic Fury spent on your most recent Demonbolt will be refunded.

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Demonbolt Talent
Replaces Shadow Bolt
4.8% of base mana 40 yd range
2 sec cast
Requires Warlock (Demonology)
Requires level 100
Draws energy from your demons and launches a ball of demonic energy at the target, dealing (80% of Spell power) Chaos damage. Damage increased 20% for each demon you have active.

Generates 1 Soul Shard

Comment by Ravunus

with the way this spell is right now it does about 3 times more damage then chaos bolt if it does a critical strike. If it stays this way people will be playing demo over destruction!

Comment by reikatana

Apparently there is some confusion regarding this ability. While it does high damage, as I understand it, it is directly proportional to the amount of demonic fury consumed. Meaning, it does full damage only at 1000 demonic fury. Thus, use it when you cap DF, and burst to 0, getting the DF used for Demonbolt back in the process. In fact, spamming it would be a DPS loss, I think.

Edit: Seems this was changed into a semi-spam spell, instead of the way it was. Sad.

Comment by 997771

: How does this spell fit into my rotation?:

: Every time you reach 1000 DF, OR anytime you need to burst (i.e. you get a buff proc, or your enemy needs to be burned) you pop into and cast ONCE, it will cost 30% of your current DF and deal damage proportional to the amount of DF consumed; you then spam down to 40 Demonic fury at which point you will then get a sudden bump of DF (equal to the initial cost of the Demonbolt) that allow you to spam several more Touches of Chaos...  

if you use this spell at 1000 DF it will:
- cost 300 DF
- deal 100% of its potential damage (i.e. 600% SP)
- place a buff on your that will be consumed the next time you drop to >40 DF to refund 300 DF

If you use this spell at 750 DF it will:
- cost 225 DF
- deal 75% of its potential damage (i.e. 450% SP)
- place a buff on your that will be consumed the next time you drop to >40 DF to refund 225 DF

if you use this spell at 500 DF it will
- cost 150 DF
- deal 50% of its potential damage (i.e. 300% SP)
- place a buff on your that will be consumed the next time you drop to >40 DF to refund 150 DF

etc. etc....
if you cast this spell twice in the row, second DB will deal less damage and consume less DF than the first, and the most recent Demonbolt buff will overwrite the preceding buff... meaning you will lose the opportunity to refund the cost of the first and more expensive Demonbolt.

Comment by EverySingleDay

ILLUMINATI

Now downvote me

Comment by Eostare

It's hilarious that blizz didn't put a CD on this spell to attract noobs. I can just see less experienced players spamming this and expecting a full DF refund at the end. Hahaha!

Comment by Saqib

Am i the only one who noticed this...it does CHAOS DAMAGE.

Even the famed Chaos Bolt does Shadow damage i may be wrong but i don't think there is any other ability out there that does chaos damage. Chaos damage used to do full damage to all armor types back in Warcraft 3, its nice to see it in WoW too.

Comment by 1128135

I wish this replaced soul fire in demo form and instead of using 1 stack to decrease the cast time and increase damage it would consume all stacks to increase its damage based on the number of molten core stacks you have aswell as having the base damage and casting time like that of the proced soul fire

Comment by ImpalerEU

This spell's animation isn't displaying as it's supposed to for Warlocks with Green Fire. Instead, it remains red and purple. Hopefully this won't take two expansions to fix as apparently the Dreadsteed's trail of flames on water(with Glyph of Nightmares) is destined to be.

Comment by 1408870

Demonbolt is a good spell but is hard to use to its fullest potential, in raiding it is not effective for dps the pet brings more raw dps imo. However, I got some decent gear for my warlock and changed from using the Abyssal's 3 second stun, to using the 12-14k non-crits and 22-30k crits of demonbolt and won 3 battlegrounds. I love it, and will continue to use it in an effective pvp rotation.

Comment by IDrownFish

A useful feature of this spell is that it does Chaos Damage.

The way Chaos Damage works is that it is a combination of every school of magic and physical damage. When hitting the target, the spell will deal damage as whichever school would cause the target to take the most damage.

This is normally just useless trivia, but this actually comes into play in the raid encounter Ko'ragh in Highmaul. He has a shield that absorbs all magic damage cast, but lets physical damage through. Chaos damage will take advantage of this: casting Demonbolt, Touch of Chaos, or Chaos Wave on Ko'ragh while his shield is up will bypass the shield, since in this case using the Physical school would deal the most damage to the target.

So let me restate that: if the target is immune to magic but vulnerable to physical, then Demonbolt will pierce the absorption/immunity effect.

This means that Demonbolt will pierce things like a DK's Anti-Magic Shell or a Paladin's Blessing of Protection, because these block only certain schools and the Demonbolt has access to all.. Demonbolt will not pierce things that absorb all damage indiscriminately like Power Word: Shield.

Comment by Adunai

The description of this spell has a typo. It should be Damage increased by 20% instead of " Damage increased 20%".

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Demonbolt

Demonbolt

2% of base mana	40 yd range

2 sec cast

Draws energy from your demons and launches a ball of demonic energy at the target, dealing (45.5% of Spell power) Chaos damage. Damage increased 10% for each demon you have active.

Generates 1 Soul Shard.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

2% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

2 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

School Damage (Physical, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane) (SP mod: 0.455)
PVP Multiplier: 1.2

Effect #2

Trigger Spell

	Demonbolt

Effect #3

Dummy
Value: 10
Radius: 100 yards
PVP Multiplier: 1
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Not In Spellbook Until Learned
Allow Class Ability Procs

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