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Comment by Alisdair

Best when used early in a fight. If used late in a fight, you've wasted your mana since it won't be able to use the full duration. Also useful to tag stealthers with.

Comment by 7073

Fire damage instant cast spell. Obtainable at level 10 for Shaman. It is the shamans most powerfull damage spell in PvE, it also is the least threat causing. It is also usefull for keeping rogues out of stealth in PvP.

Comment by 7308

A new rank for flameshock can be obtained from https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=9816

https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=23320

Comment by skitzosmeagol

Excellent spell for preventing rogues from vanashing :) once they vanish the dot will tick and they are out. This spell hits hard, however earthshock at higher levels packs a more direct punch.

Comment by 8271

agreed with alisdair because the flame shock will burn the target dmg every sec or so then u use frostshock or watever u have (frostshock my fav) and own the guy

Comment by 21328

If you don't want to interrupt them nor slow them, this spell does the most damage of the three shocks, costing the least mana. Many don't use it as it doesn't have so much burst damage nor any additional effect, but the aditional damage it does over time make this spell not so bad as many think.

Even though, it's usually better for PvE, for it's efficiency

Comment by Atedos

The only shock with highest overall damage, but due to the most of it goes by over time not as good for burst as Earth for example. Good to start a fight with.

Comment by DELPylon

Apply liberally to warriors and rogues to prevent Blind / Intimidating Shout + bandage.

Comment by 94430

This is in most cases the best Shock for raiding especially w/ a mob like Gruul. If you get caught in a cave-in or ground slam Flame Shock since casting a LB is not possible. Every little bit counts I'd imagine before the end of the fight this will account for 15k damage or more that you otherwise would not have had.

Comment by brucek2

Two questions:

Can the DOT debuff stack? I.e., if I apply a 2nd Flame Shock 6 seconds after the first one, do I still get value from the 6 seconds of DOT remaining from the first application?

Also, does the DOT portion of the damage get a crit bonus?

Comment by 65050

Jumping in water does not make this go away, neither does /stop, /drop, or /roll

Comment by 48381

Not very useful for enhancement shamans due to the sole bonus of Stormstrike.

Comment by 152722

I find flame shock very useful as a level 70 enhancement shaman: I always start a fight with flame shock (it even gets better if i have Shamanistic focus left from the previous kill). That's about 1k damage with my current gear, that means about 200-350 more than earthshock without Stormstrike debuff. (Spread throughout the fight though, so it is most useful as an opener).

Comment by 178827

With the new Elemental talent Storm,Earth and Fire and Lava Burst, this spell finally becomes useful... once again, huge mana costs.

Comment by Thelion

Actually this spell has 1% less mana cost than Frost and Earth shock.So this indeed will be the shock that level 80 players will use , atleast Enhancement shamans for the Lavaburst crit.

Comment by Liax

Even more so, with Shamanistic Focus and Convection plus often Elemental Focus you will often see a high % reduction in mana cost on your flame shocks, making it a very cheap way to boost damage.

Comment by 178827

OK, as we all know, the biggest use of Flame Shock in Wotlk will be for the Lava Burst crit. Although it used to remove FS, making the 50% DoT increase mainly useless, there is good news for elemental shamans:
#1: Lava Burst damage increased to ~1200-1500 damage, 1518 max base damage, which is, incredibly, 8 more than the max base damage of Pyroblast, disregarding its DoT. With added spelldamage this ends up with ~5k+ crits. 1.5 sec cast, 8 sec cooldown. Monstruous!
#2: "Beta Build 9095- 10/17/08: Glyph of Flame Shock - Increases the duration of your Flame Shock ability by 6 sec and it is not consumed by casting Lava Burst."
This is absolutely amazing. If this glyph survives, it will be a must have. First, 18 seconds of Flame Shock means 50% more damage, + a further 50% from the talent means 225% more DoT damage. +spellpower, it would deal ~3k over those 18 seconds. But most amazingly LAVA BURST DOESN'T CONSUME IT!. This means two more improvements: 1: you don't have to recast FS every time you lavaburst, it will still be on and in PvP this allows you to use your other shocks more, where Earth Shock is important. 2: The DoT will deal additional damage, which it didn't while it was being consumed by LvB. 3: Since you will be easily recasting FS every 18 seconds when the DoT runs out, put it simply, your LvB will just have a 100% crit chance no matter what. Forever!
Boy, ele will be dealing a lot of Fire damage in Wotlk. Mages, here we come! ('and we also have armor>:)').

Comment by 182403

Fully talented it would be something like this (estimated numbers taking concussion and other talents stack multipucuculatustuff)

Flame shock, 8.5% of base mana, 35/40yard range
instant, 3 second cooldown

Instantly sears the target with fire,
causing (630+SP*0.27) Fire damage immediately
and (231+SP*0.17) fire damage every 3 sec for 12/18 sec.
(924+SP*0.7) Fire damage over 12 sec OR (1320?+SP) Fire damage over 18 sec. glyphed
When Flame schok is dispelled, your spell casting speed is increased with 30% for 6 sec.

Let's take this apart:

8.5% of base mana (conviction, shamanistic focus); that's not all that expensive for an instant and you still have clearcasting reducing it even further
35/40yard range (elemental reach, bonus on gloves); that is quite some distance
3 second cooldown (reverberation, booming echoes); that is the original cd cut in half !
630+SP*0.27 damage (booming echoes; concussion) can result in 2-3k instant crits when having enough spellpower and clearcasting (elemental oath)
231+SP*0.17 ticks (storm, earth and fire; consussion) can also crit, so your only dot tick you have as a shaman can make it to 1k

Even without the awecome lava burst combo a fully talented elemental shaman likes this, but to make matters worse, when anybody gets the idea of dispelling if because of the lava burst or just because you hexed them
you get a 30% faster cast time!

Should be very close to your fingers hot-key-wise

-edit, forgot to calculate talents into the Spell power-coëfficient-
-and the gloves-

Comment by 388931

Taken from the PTR 3.2.2 patch notes:

Flame Shock: The duration of all ranks has been increased by 6 seconds.
Lava Burst: This ability no longer ever consumes a Flame Shock debuff off of the target.
Glyph of Flame Shock: Redesigned. This glyph now makes Flame Shock periodic damage able to be critical strikes.

Ele Shamans rejoice!

Comment by rodalpho

As of 3.2.2, the spell power coefficient is 81.42%. 21.42% on the shock, 60% over the DoT. (six three second ticks of 10% each).

Comment by 314580

It's only too bad that because Flame Shock isn't dispelled, Lava Flows won't proc anymore, except if your opponent dispells it in PvP

Comment by drame

as of patch 3.3.3 (which isnt out as i speak). FS will be able to crit without glyph and will be affected by haste.
I see this as a wonderful buff, ele shamans are laying low on the dps meters and they are getting buffed slowly but steady :). With this theres room for another glyph and FS itself is stronger. Maybe it will make rotation a bit weird when the FS ends earlier but heck thats not much of a problem.

Comment by dragnorSWC

thanks for the change to FS blizz...really know how to screw up a rotation dontchya? with the debuff being affected by haste now, what would be a 27 second burn (assuming 2 piece T9 bonus) is now (with 863 haste) a 21.37 second burn. this means that while i was pushing out 3 LvBs per shock, now it's only 2. may seem trivial to some, but when you think about it not so much.

Comment by sztwolf

well, just glyph it for +dmg so it doesn't feel such a burden , and i guess you better get ur t10 4pc bonus fast.

Comment by 734295

Is anyone else besides me annoyed with Blizz for taking the actual dmg done by attacks and abilities off roughly 50% of the icons? I want to know exactly how much dmg this does so I can choose my glyphs and rotation, not "deals fire dmg then burns for additional fire dmg." What the heck is that about?

Comment by BagraEtch

For all of you elem sham's out there, heres a macro that i have made and WORKS (you doubt it, try it and see the awesomeness yourself)

/cast Flame Shock
/cast Wind Shear

Don't believe me go and try it for yourself, though to help with confusion, try and give it the same pic as Flame Shock so your not confused out of your wits saying "Where the hell did I put FLAME SHOCK!"

Downside: Wind Shear can only be cast at 25 yards instead of max distance like Flame Shock

Comment by 721433

As of 4.1, Fire Nova explodes off your Flames Shock'd targets, adding some more nice distance AoE to a Shaman's arsenal.

Comment by Pope

Flame Shock is incredibly valuable for both Enhancement and Elementals.

First:
Flameshock gains Ticks depending on your haste.
Due to DoT-Mechanics, the duration of the DoT is always Standard duration +- a half of the tick-length.
Therefore, your Flameshock can vary between 16,5 and 19,5 seconds. Or 25,5 and 28,5 seconds with the glyph.

Although there are no haste "caps" that elementals should gear for, it might be interesting to see when we gain a new tick.

Without Glyph
First Tick: 8,3% Haste, (7 Ticks)
assuming 5% Haste Totem: 3,17%
Haste Rating: 405

Second Tick: 25% Haste (8 Ticks)
assuming 5% Haste Totem: 19,04%
Haste Rating: 2437

With Glyph
First Tick, assuming Haste-Totem (10 Ticks)
0,5% Haste = 68 Rating

Second Tick, assuming Haste-Totem (11 Ticks)
11,1% Haste = 1422 Rating

Third Tick, assuming Haste-Totem (12 Ticks)
21,7% Haste = 2777 Rating

It should be noted that when you gain haste, you reduce the Time between the new tick. That reduces the duration of the DoT in total slightly. Shortly before you would gain the new tick, the DoT duration is decreased to its lowest.
By the time you can fit in half of the tick-time to reach the normal duration of the DoT, the new tick is added.

For enhancement, all of this is simply irrelevant.
Enhancement uses Unleash Element, to gain Unleash Flame, which increases the damage of the next Fire Spell by 30%. In single target, that's always Flame Shock. Since the cooldown of Unleash Elements is 15 seconds, and the Duration of Flame Shock is 18 seconds, and both Unleash Elements and Unleash_Fire_Flameshock have a very high priority, you refresh your Flameshock before it falls off.

Comment by 457328

This Dot can last atleast up to 4 hours :) with the Elemental Spec :3 I tried it at Theramore.
After that i got bored :P

Comment by 565823

Does Earth Shock remove Flame Shock or can they both be on the same target simultaneously?

Comment by 499945

Here are the haste break points with no haste modifier, Wrath of Air, Dark Intent and a combination of DI & WoA
With Glyph

-	No Buff	Dark Intent	Wrath of Air	DI + WoA
10th	711 (5.55%)	318 (2.48%)	68 (0.53%)	-
11th	2134 (16.66%)	1699 (13.27%)	1423 (11.11%)	1008 (7.87%)
12th	3557 (27.78%)	3081 (24.06%)	2778 (21.69%)	2324 (18.15%)
13th	4980 (38.89%)	4462 (34.84%)	4133 (32.27%)	3640 (28.42%)
14th	6403 (50%)	5843 (45.63%)	5488 (42.86%)	4955 (38.69%)
15th	7826 (61.11%)	7225 (56.42%)	6843 (53.44%)	6271 (48.97%)

Without Glyph

-	No Buff	Dark Intent	Wrath of Air	DI + WoA
7h	1067 (8.33%)	663 (5.18%)	407 (3.18%)	22 (0.17%)
8th	3201 (25%)	2735 (21.36%)	2439 (19.05%)	1995 (15.58%)
9th	5336 (41.67%)	4807 (37.54%)	4472 (34.92%)	3969 (30.99%)
10th	7470 (58.33%)	6879 (53.72%)	6504 (50.79%)	5942 (46.4%)

Comment by Addison

I got the feeling that when I reforge for mastery instead of haste my dps is higher(at least on dummy). With mastery reforge it is 24k, with haste forge 22k. I was wondering if it's better to go for mastery if you cant get to your next extra tick of FS? Which is 2778 in my case. Max of haste i can get is 2400.

Comment by Thottbot

Use this when Fighting Rogues!

Comment by Thottbot

um... use this when fighting...

Comment by Thottbot

work against runners in pve if you dont have earthbind totem out, also i use it when i fight the eilites since normally the fight lasts long enough for the entire afect, and yes also good on rogues so they cant vanish

Comment by Thottbot

Can you get this on a Dranei Shaman? Its not showing up for my level 16 Dranei Shaman and I'm getting concerned.

Comment by Thottbot

Yes you can get this on a Draenei Shaman. I am a 22 Draenei shaman and i have Flame Shock

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Flame Shock

Flame Shock	Level 40

17% of base mana	25 yd range

Instant	6 sec cooldown

Instantly sears the target with fire, causing 34 Fire damage immediately and 55 Fire damage over 18 sec.

Buff

Flame Shock	Level 40

9 Fire damage every 3 seconds.
18 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

18 seconds

School

Fire

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

17% of base mana

Range

25 yards (Medium-Short)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

6 seconds

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

School Damage (Fire)
Value: 22 (SP mod: 0.214)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 8 every 3 seconds (SP mod: 0.1)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Spell Haste Affects Periodic
Periodic Can Crit
Aura Points On Client

Flame Shock

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