Bane

For the plague eruptor, see Bane (plague eruptor). For the warlock debuff type, see Bane (spell).

Bane
Bane (5 ranks) Tier 2 Destruction warlock talent Passive Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 sec and your Soul Fire spell by 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6/2.0 sec.
Properties
Class	Warlock
Other information
Affects	[Immolate], [Shadow Bolt], [Chaos Bolt]

Bane is a Tier 1 Destruction warlock talent that reduces the casting time of key damage spells in the Destruction tree: [Immolate], [Shadow Bolt] and [Chaos Bolt].

Notes

At max rank, Immolate's base cast time will be 1.5 sec, Chaos Bolt will be 2 sec, and Shadow Bolt will be 2.5 sec.

This talent is a nice boost to Immolate and Chaos Bolt, but has a much greater effect on Shadow Bolt. It works out to slightly more than 20% increase in DPS when spamming Shadow Bolts.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved from tier 2 to tier 1 and reduced to 3 ranks (was 5). No longer affects Soul Fire.
  
• Patch 1.8.0 (2005-10-10): Now reduces casting time of the Soul Fire spell in addition to Immolate and Shadow Bolt.
  

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