Insect Swarm

Insect Swarm
Insect Swarm 30 yds.  range 8% of base mana Instant cast The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit with melee and ranged attacks by 3% and causing X Nature damage over 12 sec.
Usable by
Class	Druid
Properties
Type	Offensive and Utility
School	Nature
Casting time	Instant cast
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talented	Yes
Talent tree	Balance
Other information
Ranks	7
Related debuff
Magic Insect Swarm Chance to hit with melee and ranged attacks decreased by 3% and {X/6} Nature damage every 2 sec. Duration: 12 sec.

• Insect Swarm
• 30 yds.  range
• 8% of base mana
• Instant cast
• The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit with melee and ranged attacks by 3% and causing X Nature damage over 12 sec.

Insect Swarm is a talent-learned DoT spell and debuff.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Damage	Training Cost
1	30	144	Talent
2	30	234	60
3	40	375	1 40
4	50	540	1 20
5	60	744	3 40
6	70	1032	20
7	80	1290	20

Notes

• Does not stack with chance to miss % of other insect swarm.
• Unlike a lot of other DoT spells which deal damage every 3 seconds, Insect Swarm deals damage every 2 seconds, meaning 6 ticks will occur in its duration of 12 seconds (7 over 14 seconds if you have Nature's Splendor).

Improvements

Talents

Improved Insect Swarm: Increases your damage done by your Wrath spell to targets afflicted by your Insect Swarm by 1-3%, and increases the critical strike chance of your Starfire spell by 1-3% on targets afflicted by your Moonfire spell.

Glyphs

2020

• Glyph of Insect Swarm
• Item Level 25
  Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Druid
• Requires level 20
• Use: Increases the damage of your Insect Swarm ability by 30%, but it no longer affects your victim's chance to hit.
• Sell Price: 37 50

Tips and Tactics

• The talent is useful when used in conjunction with Moonfire. In addition, it's a cheap DoT that gains 120% from your +spell damage, which makes it desirable for certain balance builds and one of the most mana-efficient DoTs in the game.
• In a raiding perspective the damage mitigation with the chance to miss helps with the survival of the main tank.
• Unlike most (all?) Druid spells, Insect Swarm does not interrupt the swing timer.

Patch changes

• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): No longer a talent, available to all druids.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): The bonus damage from spell power on this damage-over-time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes (from 76% to 120%).
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (04-Nov-2008): Tooltip corrected to indicate it does not affect hit chance with spells.
  

External links

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