Flamestrike

For the sword with the same name, see  [Felo'melorn].

Flamestrike
Flamestrike Level 12 Fire mage ability 40 yd range 1.5% of base mana 3.5 sec cast Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for (101.023% of Spell power) Fire damage and reducing their movement speed by 20% for 8 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Properties
Class	Mage
School	Fire
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	12
Improvements	[Flame Accelerant], [Flame Patch], [Fuel the Fire], a [Hyperthermia], [Kindling], [Mark of the Fire Lord], [Pyromaniac], [Quickflame], [Sun King's Blessing], [Surging Blaze]
Related debuff
Flamestrike Movement speed slowed by 20%. Duration: 8 seconds

Flamestrike is a Fire mage ability.

Trivia

• Flame Strike is one of Blood Mage's abilities in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
• Flamestrike is...
  • A rare mage ability in the Trading Card Game. Its flavor text reads: "'What's betta den fire? More fire, mon!' —Ta'zo"
  • A basic mage spell in Hearthstone. Its flavor text reads: "When the ground is on fire, you should not stop, drop, and roll."
  • One of Kael'thas's basic abilities in Heroes of the Storm.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25):
  • Damage increased by 10%.
  • Mana cost reduced to 1.5% base mana (was 2.5%).
    
• Hotfix (2024-09-24): Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Hotfix (2024-09-03): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13):
  • Damage increased by 10%.
  • Damage is no longer increased by 24% in PvP combat.
    
• Hotfix (2023-12-19): Damage increased by 12%.
  
• Hotfix (2023-08-21): Damage reduced by 6%.
  
• Hotfix (2023-08-07): Damage decreased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
  
• Hotfix (2023-07-18): Damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
  
• Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
  • Flamestrike has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 12 (was a row 3 Fire talent).
  • Damage increased by 12%.
  • Cast time reduced to 3.5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
    
• Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Hotfix (2022-12-05): Damage increased by 8%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 talent (was a level 17 ability). Ranks 2 and 3 removed.
  
• Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Damage reduced by 10%.
  
• Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 3 added at level 52: Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Hotfix (2020-11-16): Damage reduced by 8%.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 17 (was 20). Rank 2 added at level 43: Cast time reduced by 0.5 seconds.
  
• Hotfix (2018-09-10): Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Snare effect reduced to 20%, down from 50%. Spell power co-efficient reduced to 57.5% (was 271.4%).
  
• Patch 7.2.0 (2017-03-28): Base mana cost reduced to 2.5%, down from 3%. Spell power co-efficient increased.
  
• Hotfix (2017-01-17): Flamestrike now deals 90% damage in PvP situations (was 100%).
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage increased by 27%.
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 15%. Now learned at level 20, down from level 44.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Cast time increased to 4 sec (was 2 sec). No longer causes additional damage over time. Cooldown removed. New spell animation.
  
• Hotfix (2015-07-20): Flamestrike damage increased by 50%.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now available only to Fire mages. Now only causes additional periodic damage to targets struck by initial damage, rather than leaving a persistent ground effect.
  
• Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): New spell animation.
  
• Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Now deals 100% more initial damage. Periodic damage remains unchanged.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now has a 12 sec cooldown, and slows enemies struck by the initial damage by 50%. New spell animation.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now costs 30% of base mana (was 35%). Now trainable at level 44 (was 16).
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Some ranks of this spell had an incorrect cast time of 3 seconds. All ranks now share a 2-second cast time.
  
• Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Fixed a bug where area of effect periodic damage spells were being resisted more frequently than they should have been when casting lower level ranks of the spell (affected spells included Flamestrike).
  

Other versions

• Classic

  Flamestrike
  Flamestrike (6 ranks) Level 16 mage ability 30 yd range 195 Mana 3 sec cast Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for 55 to 71 Fire damage and an additional 48 Fire damage over 8 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Mage
  School	Fire
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	16
  Improvements	[Improved Flamestrike]
  Related debuff
  Flamestrike 12 Fire damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 8 seconds

• BC Classic

  Flamestrike
  Flamestrike (7 ranks) Level 16 mage ability 30 yd range 195 Mana 3 sec cast Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for 55 to 71 Fire damage and an additional 48 Fire damage over 8 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Mage
  School	Fire
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	16
  Improvements	[Improved Flamestrike]
  Related debuff
  Flamestrike 12 Fire damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 8 seconds

• Wrath Classic

  Flamestrike
  Flamestrike (9 ranks) Level 16 mage ability 30 yd range 35% of base mana 2 sec cast Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for 55 to 71 Fire damage and an additional 48 Fire damage over 8 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Mage
  School	Fire
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	16
  Improvements	[World in Flames]
  Related debuff
  Flamestrike 12 Fire damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 8 seconds

• Cataclysm Classic

  Flamestrike
  Flamestrike Level 44 mage ability 40 yd range 30% of base mana 2 sec cast Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for 637 Fire damage and an additional 48 Fire damage over 8 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Mage
  School	Fire
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	44
  Improvements	[Improved Flamestrike]
  Related debuff
  Flamestrike 12 Fire damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 8 seconds

External links

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