Solar Beam

Solar Beam
	Solar Beam; Row 2 Balance druid talent; 40 yd range; 16.8% of base mana; 1 min cooldown; Instant; Summons a beam of solar light over an enemy target's location, interrupting the target and silencing all enemies within the beam. Lasts 8 sec.;
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Nature
Cooldown	1 minute
Talents
Talent required	[Eclipse]
Improvements	[Light of the Sun]
Related debuff
	; Solar Beam ; Silenced. ; Duration: 8 seconds ;

For the Pet Battle ability, see [Solar Beam].

Solar Beam is a Balance druid talent.

Tips and tactics

Applying [Entangling Roots] or [Mass Entanglement] then Solar Beam is pretty useful against enemy spellcasters and healers in PvE or PvP, but be careful not to damage the effected target(s) or it will cancel the snaring effect.

Hotfix (2023-06-26): Now lasts 6 seconds in PvP combat (was 8 seconds).
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Balance talent (was a level 26 Balance ability).
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 26 (was 80).
Hotfix (2017-11-28): Solar Beam's persistent silence effect can no longer be avoided by jumping.
Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now available at level 80 (was 28).
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): No longer Silences a target again more than once per cast. Additionally, the Silence effect from this spell now shares Diminishing Returns with other Silences.
Hotfix (2013-05-23): Solar Beam and the Symbiosis version of Solar Beam's silence effect can no longer be reflected.
Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Is now more responsive when players enter and leave the beam's area-of-effect.
Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): The duration of Solar Beam has been reduced to 8 seconds. (Down from 10 seconds)
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 28 Balance ability (was a tier 4 Balance talent).
Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Has a new spell effect.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26):
- No longer on the global cooldown to make it more consistent with other abilities.
- Now more responsive when enemies move into or out of it.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.