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Comment by 6998

This talent is a great choice for any fire mage for PvP and PvE. In PvP where you are being attacked (as opposed to standing at 41 yards and spamming fireballs ^_^) scorch combined with instants is the best spell choice in my experience. After only three scorches, you basically have a second 5 points in firepower. In PvE, at least one mage should have this talent to boost the power of the warlocks and the other fire mages.

Comment by 29600

I usually only put 2 points instead of 3 into this talent.
With 2 points it's still a 66% chance that it gets applied which is good enough for PVE, you'll just have to scorch 2 or 3 times extra.
And in PVP it's not that important as fights will usually be over very quickly.

Comment by 90538

And for clarity: this does effect wands as well.

Comment by defektunge

This is the debuff that is applied, for anyone curious.

Comment by 100422

Okay I have a question. I'm back in game again and going fire as per my first mage(this is my third)

probably mostly full fire this time without arc specing to get pom, though I will still get a decent amount of arc at 70 due to several fire talents being superfluous or right out useless.

Anyway to stop running off on a tangent this is my question.

Does the debuff improved scorch applies increase damage done to the target with fire wands? I'm a mage so I don't rely on wands but it could be helpful in lowing my mana cost when I don't need super fast nuking to get a mob down before it kills me(instances I'm thinking of you)

Comment by Demonsummor

With "Glyph of Improved Scorch" it will only take one scorch cast to get 5x debuff. This will buff fire mages dmg everywhere. But most on fast dying mobs, as now it will only take 1,5 sec to apply. Also note that in WotLK it's no longer only +fire dmg, but also frost and arcane.

Comment by 194732

According to Jimmythenumbers (blue post), this debuff will be combined with Winter's Chill debuff, as a Spell Critical Strike Chance Debuff. Improved Scorch will be changed to increase crit by 2% instead of damage.

So now both debuffs are the same. Frost and fire mages don't have to worry as much anymore for the debuffs on the mobs.

In addition, with the new ability from the new trade Inscription, Glyph of Improved Scorch, fire mages just have to cast Scorch once and hardly have to worry about it during the fight.

This change is more favored for the player, less to who has what spec in a raid spot.

Comment by 273428

Given the proposed changes to warlocks in 3.1 giving them a increased 5% crit debuff from improved shadow bolt, it seems safe to assume that imp scorch and winter's chill will have a reduced effect to 5%.

Comment by lmh86

Undocumented Class Changes as per www.mmo-champion.com:

Patch 3.1 - PTR Build 9722:

Improved Scorch now also Increases your chance to critically hit with Scorch by an additional 3/6/9%.

Comment by 289525

For what I'm seeing now, the mage is only witnessing a 1% drop in crit chance with a full 5 stacks on the boss. The rest of the group of casters though is seeing a 5% drop.

But of course now the mage is seeing the first 3% up front. That's good for helping to pop that hot streak early on.

Comment by 258919

It has been nerfed with 3.1, but it's not completely useless. It lowers your dps some by casting Scorch, but the buff gives every spellcaster that attacks the target the improved crit chance.

Still worth it. When you're in a raid such as VoA where the enrage timer applies (and on Emalon, the overcharge timer), this talent with Glyph of Improved Scorch could make or break your team.

Comment by imezyiu

This doesn't stack with Improved Shadow Bolt, and may or may not stack with Boomkin Aura. This isn't necessarily a must have unless your raid doesn't have a lock with Imp. Shadow Bolt.

Comment by Luoma

In the 3.3.0 Patch Scorch will apply all 5 stacks with one scorch, the same as the current Scorch Glyph works.

Comment by Thottbot

Does this happen to increase the damage for wands that deal fire damage? Kind of like shadow wands for priests Shadow Weaving talent?

Comment by kolisee

The debuff this talent applies is called Fire Vulnerability.

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Improved Scorch

Improved Scorch

Talent

Increases your chance to critically hit with Scorch, Fireball and Frostfire Bolt by an additional 3% and your damaging Scorch spells have a 100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to spell damage, increasing spell critical strike chance against that target by 5% and lasts 30 sec.

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n/a

School

Physical

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Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Proc Trigger Spell
PVP Multiplier: 1

	Improved Scorch

Affected Spells:

Scorch	Scorch	Scorch
Scorch	Scorch	Scorch
Scorch	Scorch	Scorch
Scorch	Scorch

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Critical Strike Chance (7)
Value: 3
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Fireball	Fireball	Fireball
	Scorch	Fireball	Fireball
	Fireball	Fireball	Scorch
	Scorch	Scorch	Fireball
	Fireball	Fireball	Fireball
	Scorch	Scorch	Scorch
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	Fireball	Fireball	Scorch
	Scorch	Fireball	Fireball
	Fireball	Scorch	Scorch
	Frostfire Bolt	Frostfire Bolt

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