Seed of Corruption
Seed of Corruption | |
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Properties | |
Class | Warlock |
School | Shadow |
Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
Talents | |
Talent required | [Unstable Affliction] |
Related debuff | |
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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
- Hotfix (2023-12-19): Damage increased by 10%.
- Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Cast time has been reduced to 2 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
- Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 5%.
- Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Affliction talent (was a level 27 Affliction ability).
- Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Damage increased by 25%.
- Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Now properly deals damage and applies [Corruption] if the Warlock is crowd-controlled when the seed detonates.
- Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 27 (was 38).
- Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Seed of Corruption damage reduced by 20%.
- Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10):
- Damage is now 215% (was 138%).
- Now costs 1 Soul Shard (was 4.5% mana).
- Hotfix (2016-09-28): Seed of Corruption will now properly detonate and spread if the target dies while still affected.
- Hotfix (2016-09-23): Seed of Corruption damage increased by 15%.
- 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).
- 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.
- Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Explosion radius has been reduced to 10 yards, down from 15.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Seed of Corruption will now stack with Corruption, as well as [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).
- Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Damage has been increased by 20%.
- Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been increased to be more comparable to other area-of-effect abilities.
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned at level 72 (was 70).
- Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Seed of Corruption detonation will now obey line of sight.
- Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): Dead targets will no longer be erroneously counted toward the damage cap on this spell.
- 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.
- 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. [Shadowfury] and [Rain of Fire] work to proc them though.
- Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.
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