Insect Swarm

Insect Swarm
Insect Swarm Druid ability 40 s. yd range 8% of base mana Instant The enemy target is swarmed by insects, causing 1458 Nature damage over 12 sec.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Related debuff
Magic Insect Swarm 243 Nature damage every 2 sec. Duration: 12 sec.

[[Category:druid abilities]][[Category:druid abilities]]

[Insect Swarm] is a DoT with a 12 second duration that deals nature damage. Along with [Moonfire], this ability accounts for a large amount of overall damage during fights when used by a Balance Druid.

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

• This ability and [Moonfire] go hand in hand and are often applied to an enemy target within one global-cooldown of one another.

Talents

Talent	Points Needed
[Moonfury]	Balance (Starts With)
[Nature's Grace] (3)	Balance (0)
[Nature's Majesty] (2)	Balance (0)
[Genesis] (3)	Balance (5)
Moonglow (Druid Talent) (3)	Balance (5)
[Balance of Power] (2)	Balance (5)
[Shooting Stars] (2)	Balance (10)

Related Glyphs

 [Glyph of Insect Swarm] increases the damage of [Insect Swarm] by 30%. Thus this is often considered one of the best prime glyphs to maximize damage for a Balance Druid.

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 (2010-10-12): No longer a talent, available to all druids.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): 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 (2008-11-04): Tooltip corrected to indicate it does not affect hit chance with spells.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB