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Seed of Corruption
Spell shadow seedofdestruction
  • Seed of Corruption
  • Row 2 Affliction warlock talent
  • 40 yd range
  • 1 Soul Shard
  • 2 sec cast
  • Embeds a demon seed in the enemy target that will explode after 12 sec, dealing (52.5% of Spell power) Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards and applying Corruption to them.

    The seed will detonate early if the target is hit by other detonations, or takes (50% of Spell power) damage from your spells.
Properties
Class Warlock
School Shadow
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required Ability warlock everlastingaffliction [Malefic Rapture]
Improvements Spell warlock darkregeneration [Agonizing Corruption], Ability xavius corruptingnova [Doom Blossom], Inv artifact powerofthedarkside [Kindled Malice], Spell shadow seedofdestruction [Sow the Seeds]
Related debuff
Spell shadow seedofdestruction
  • Magic
  • Seed of Corruption
  • Embeded with a demon seed that will soon explode, dealing Shadow damage to the caster's enemies within 10 yards, and applying Corruption to them.

    The seed will detonate early if the target is hit by other detonations, or takes X damage from your spells.
  • Duration: 12 seconds

Seed of Corruption is an Affliction warlock Shadow-based spell that deals area of effect direct damage after the target receives a specific amount of damage.

Notes[]

Seed of Corruption is a binary spell, so it will either be completely resisted (no explosion) or land for full damage.

Previously, any damage (including that from other party members) could detonate SoC. Since Patch 5.0.4, it can now only be triggered by damage done by the warlock, though if they have all three dots on the target, a couple of ticks is usually sufficient for detonation. Pet damage does not contribute. Furthermore, detonation also counts as damage that triggers other SoCs, leading to a cascade of explosions that contributes to massive burst AoE.

Tips and tactics[]

In instances, Seed of Corruption is most effective on large groups of mobs with relatively high health. Detonation will occur more quickly on a mob with full DoTs. If they won't live long enough for a few SoC to detonate, multi-dotting is a better choice.

While soloing, it is difficult to use SoC because of the amount of time required to set up a large cascade, especially when taking spell pushback. If the group of mobs is large enough to warrant the use of SoC, it is probably too large for a single warlock to handle.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Cast time has been reduced to 2 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 5%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Affliction talent (was a level 27 Affliction ability).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Damage increased by 25%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Now properly deals damage and applies Spell shadow abominationexplosion [Corruption] if the Warlock is crowd-controlled when the seed detonates.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 27 (was 38).
  • Legion Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Seed of Corruption damage reduced by 20%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10):
    • Damage is now 215% (was 138%).
    • Now costs 1 Soul Shard (was 4.5% mana).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-09-28): Seed of Corruption will now properly detonate and spread if the target dies while still affected.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-09-23): Seed of Corruption damage increased by 15%.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer deals damage over time. Detonation now deals 75.8% more damage and applies Corruption to all affected targets. Now requires 217.5% more damage to be detonated. Now learned at level 38 (was 21).
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
    • Now learned at level 21 (was 60) by Affliction only.
    • Seed of Corruption and Soulburn: Seed of Corruption can no longer both apply to the same target.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Explosion radius has been reduced to 10 yards, down from 15.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Seed of Corruption will now stack with Corruption, as well as Spell shadow seedofdestruction [Soulburn: Seed of Corruption]. Damage required to set off the explosion will now only be counted by the casting Warlock. Now learned at level 60 (was 72).
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been increased to be more comparable to other area-of-effect abilities.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned at level 72 (was 70).
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Seed of Corruption detonation will now obey line of sight.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): Dead targets will no longer be erroneously counted toward the damage cap on this spell.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): This spell will now interact properly with town guards when bystanders are hit by its detonation in a duel.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.7 (2007-02-13): Seed of Corruption cannot proc off of its own damage. It used to go off when another seed exploded. Now it doesn't react to other seeds. Ability warlock shadowfurytga [Shadowfury] and Spell shadow rainoffire [Rain of Fire] work to proc them though.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.

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