Immolate

For the Pet Battle ability, see [Immolate].

Immolate
Immolate Level 10 Destruction warlock ability Replaces [Corruption] 40 yd range 1.5% of base mana 1.5 sec cast Burns the enemy, causing (59.1624% of Spell power) Fire damage immediately and an additional (221.859% of Spell power) Fire damage over 18 sec. Periodic damage generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment and has a 50% chance to generate an additional 1 on critical strikes.
Properties
Class	Warlock
School	Fire
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	10
Improvements	[Flashpoint], [Scalding Flames], [Socrethar's Guile]
Related debuff
Magic Immolate Suffering (36.98% of spell power) Fire damage every 3 sec. Duration: 18 seconds

Immolate is a Destruction warlock hybrid spell spell that deals both direct damage and damage over time, with an emphasis on the latter.

Tips and tactics

When tanking mobs with your Voidwalker, save casting Immolate until the end of your DoT rotation. Not only does it have the shortest duration, but as it deals initial damage, it generates the most threat and could possibly pull the mob to you.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Damage is no longer reduced by 9% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2023-12-19): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now learned at level 10 (was 11).
  
• Patch 9.2.5a (2022-08-02): Damage increased by 20%.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 11 (was 10).
  
• Hotfix (2018-09-24): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2017-07-27): Immolate's Soul Shard generation should now function as intended and match the tooltip.
  
• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13):
  • Immolate's periodic damage has a 50% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard Fragment (was a 15% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard).
  • Immolate's periodic damage critical strikes have a 100% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard Fragment (was a 30% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard).
    
• Hotfix (2016-09-23): Immolate damage increased by 11%.
  
• Hotfix (2016-08-16): Immolate no longer has a chance to generate a shard on its direct damage.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now has a 15% chance to generate a Soul Shard (double on critical strikes). Direct damage increased by 162%, damage over time increased by 42%, and duration increased to 18 sec (was 15). Now learned at level 10 (was 12).
  
• Hotfix (2015-07-20): Damage increased by 5%.
  
• Hotfix (2014-12-15): Immolate's damage has been increased by 8%.
  
• Hotfix (2014-10-30): Resolved a situation where interactions between Immolate, [Fire and Brimstone], and [Cataclysm] could cause Immolate to deal less damage than intended.
  
• Hotfix (2013-09-23): Immolate's damage has been increased by 30%.
  
• Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Damage has been increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2013-04-18): Fixed an issue where targets of Havoc were receiving more damage than intended from Immolate.
  
• Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now deals 15% more damage.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 12 Destruction specialization ability (was a level 3 ability for all warlocks) and replaces [Corruption]. Cooldown reduced from 2 sec to 1.5 sec.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Only one Immolate per Warlock can be active on any one target. Mana cost 8% (was 17%) and has a range of 40 yd (was 30). Now learned at level 3 (was 1).
  
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): The damage-over-time component of this spell can now produce critical strikes.
  
• Hotfix (2009-04-15): We have hotfixed the damage of the Warlock spell Conflagrate from 100% to 70% of Immolate's total periodic damage instantly. The tooltip may still show 100% until a future update though.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): All ranks of Immolate and [Unstable Affliction] will now overwrite each other.
  
• Patch 0.11 (2004-09-29): Duration, damage, and mana cost reduced. Deals damage faster.
  

See also

• Immolate, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB