Immolate

Immolate
Immolate 40 yd  range 3.0% of base mana 1.5 sec cast Burns the enemy for x Fire damage and an additional x Fire damage over 15 sec. Destruction Immolate critical strikes generate Burning Embers Empowered Immolate (Level 92+) Your Immolate deals 100% additional damage when it initially strikes the target.
Usable by
Class	Warlock
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Fire
Casting time	1.5 sec cast
Cooldown	(GCD 1.5 sec)
Talents
Specialization	Destruction
Level required	12
Related debuff
Magic Immolate X Fire damage every 3 sec. Duration: 15 seconds
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• Immolate
• 40 yd  range
• 3.0% of base mana
• 1.5 sec cast
• Burns the enemy for x Fire damage and an additional x Fire damage over 15 sec.
  
  Destruction
  Immolate critical strikes generate Burning Embers
  
  Empowered Immolate (Level 92+)
  Your Immolate deals 100% additional damage when it initially strikes the target.

Immolate is a warlock ability that ignites the target with the devouring flames of entropy, that which is death. It deals both direct damage and damage over time, with an emphasis on the latter. It is one of the common DoTs destruction warlocks place of their targets. In addition, critical strikes will generate Burning Embers.

Modified by

• Glyph of Siphon Life

Talents

• Kil'Jaeden's Cunning

Destruction abilities

• Havoc
• Fire and Brimstone
• Mastery: Emberstorm

Notes

When tanking mobs with your pet (either Voidwalker or Felguard), 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.

However, there is an exception to the above tactic. If the warlock is soloing and the tactic is that of a Warlock Tank with the expectation of a long fight, casting Immolate at the start may be beneficial for two reasons. First, the warlock avoids potential interruption of the cast time when offering an opening Immolate. Secondly, if the fight is expected to be in the 25-35 sec. range, a second Immolate can be cast, maximizing the likelihood of conducting a mana-efficient battle.

Speculation

Immolate ignites the target with the devouring flames of entropy. Entropy is another term for death. Even though immolate, as demonic or entropic fel fire, is basically necromantic fire, Blizzard Entertainment states that fel is not death and that warlocks can have necromantic abilities without being necromancers.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.4.0 (10-Sep-2013): Immolate damage has been increased by 10%.
  
• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Immolate now deals 15% more damage.
  
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): The damage-over-time component of this spell can now produce critical strikes.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Immolate and Unstable Affliction: All ranks of these two spells will now overwrite each other.
  
•  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."
  

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