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Flame Shock
Spell fire flameshock
  • Flame Shock
  • Level 3 shaman ability
  • 40 yd range
  • 1.5% of base mana
  • 6 sec cooldown
  • Instant
  • Sears the target with fire, causing (19.5% of Spell power) Fire damage and then an additional (104.4% of Spell power) Fire damage over 18 sec.

    Flame Shock can be applied to a maximum of 6 targets.

    ElementalEnhancement If Flame Shock is dispelled, a volcanic eruption wells up beneath the dispeller, exploding for (300% of Spell power) Fire damage and knocking them into the air.
Properties
Class Shaman
School Volcanic
Cooldown 6 seconds
Other information
Level learned 3
Improvements Spell shaman stormearthfire [Ashen Catalyst], Spell fire ragnaros molteninferno [Call of Fire], Inv misc cauldron fire [Flames of the Cauldron], Spell shaman measuredinsight [Focused Insight], Spell shaman lavasurge [Lava Surge], Ability rhyolith magmaflow whole [Magma Chamber], Inv offhand 1h artifactdoomhammer d 01 [Searing Flames]
Related debuff
Spell fire flameshock
  • Magic
  • Flame Shock
  • Suffering (11.6% of Spell power) Fire damage every 2 sec.
  • Duration: 18 seconds

Flame Shock is a level 3 shaman ability. It is one of the three shock spells available to shamans. Because the DoT component can critically strike any shaman can increase the effectiveness of this spell through Spell crit.

Tips and tactics[]

  • Refreshing the DoT may cause you to lose a few periodic damage ticks.
  • Like all DoT spells, Flame Shock can be used to prevent rogues from using Ability vanish [Vanish].
  • With the guaranteed critical strike aspect of Spell shaman lavaburst [Lava Burst] when Flame Shock is active, Flame Shock + Lava Burst is a staple for Elemental (and to an extent, Restoration) shamans.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-07-24): Control of Lava damage from being dispelled increased by 40%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Flame Shock's dispel protection from Spell shaman lavaflow [Control of Lava] is now a baseline part of Flame Shock for Elemental and Enhancement.
    If Flame Shock is dispelled, a volcanic eruption wells up beneath the dispeller, exploding for (300% of Spell power) Fire damage and knocking them into the air.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24):
    • Elemental: Damage increased by 10%.
    • Restoration: Damage increased by 20%.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-11-07): Damage increased by 20% (Restoration only).
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-11-01): Damage increased by 10%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.2.5 (2022-05-31): For Enhancement, Flame Shock no longer shares cooldown with Spell frost frostshock [Frost Shock].
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2022-03-09): Fixed an issue where Flame Shock would potentially fall off the primary target when Flame Shock was spread on the maximum number of targets.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2022-03-07): Fixed an issue where the global cooldown reduction of Flame Shock was incorrectly benefitting from the effects of haste twice.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.2.0 (2022-02-22): Flame Shock can now be applied to a maximum of 6 enemies at a time.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now available for all specializations. Duration reduced to 18 seconds. For Enhancement, Flame Shock shares cooldown with Spell frost frostshock [Frost Shock].
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): Duration increased to 24 seconds.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Elemental and Restoration shamans now use the same Flame Shock. Duration increased to 18 seconds. Now has a 6 second cooldown. Can no longer consume Maelstrom to increase the duration.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 3 (was 5). The duration extension from spending Maelstrom for Elemental is now learned at level 13.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19):
    • Now learned at level 5 (was 10).
    • Restoration: Instant damage increased by 380%, over time damage increased by 180%, and duration reduced to 21 seconds (down from 30 seconds).
    • Elemental: Instant damage increased by 120%, over time damage increased by 37-74%, and duration reduced to 15 seconds (increased to 30 seconds with Maelstrom.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.2.3 (2015-11-17): Damage has been increased by 4%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.3 (2014-10-28): Now costs 50% less mana.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Duration has been increased by 25%.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Duration increased from 18 to 24 sec. Now learned at level 12 (was 10).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): The damage-over-time component of this ability can now produce critical strikes and is affected by spell haste.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): The duration of all ranks has been increased by 6 seconds.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Damage over time portion of all ranks slightly increased. Mana cost of ranks 3 through 5 decreased.

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