Thorns

Thorns
Thorns (7 ranks) Druid ability 30 yd range 17% of base mana Instant Thorns sprout from the friendly target causing X Nature damage to attackers when hit. Lasts 10 min.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	[Brambles]
Related buff
Magic Thorns Causes X Nature damage to attackers. Duration: 10 min

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

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Thorns is a spell that can be learned from druid trainers. It is part of the Balance line, and grants a buff to friendly targets that causes Nature damage to attackers when hit. This buff only affects melee attackers. Its damage is increased by spell power - each tick receives about 3.3%.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Base mana cost	Nature Damage	Cost
1	6	19% of base mana	3	1
2	14	19% of base mana	6	9
3	24	19% of base mana	9	40
4	34	19% of base mana	12	1
5	44	19% of base mana	15	1 80
6	54	19% of base mana	18	2 80
7	64	17% of base mana	25	5 30
8	74	17% of base mana	73	20

Notes

The Druid Tier 1 armor set, Cenarion Raiment, boosts the effectiveness of Thorns. The three piece bonus increases the damage caused by 4 and the duration by 50%.

Talent improvement

The Druid talent [Brambles] increases the Nature damage caused by Thorns by 25/50/75%.

Tips and tactics

• Although this spell doesn't sound too useful, it doesn't cost much mana, and is instant cast. Sometimes, additional damage can help.
• You should probably not cast this on non-melee classes (healer, mage), because the damage caused by thorns does increase aggro, making it harder to pull mobs off the caster. Conversely, you should cast this on melee classes so they can keep aggro and cause additional damage to mobs.
• Thorns will act as a buffer against PvP anti-magic, e.g. [Spellsteal] and [Purge].
• The damage caused by it can break skills like [Hibernate]. Do not use it if you want to crowd control. (Note that a Hibernated creature will not attack. However it can reduce [Entangling Roots] duration if enemy is able to shoot or someone is in melee.)
• If you or someone in your party has latency of over 500, you may want to avoid using Thorns if you are using any in-combat crowd control such as Hibernate or Polymorph. This is because the mob can deal it's damage before it gets CCed but have the damage reflected after the CC, breaking it.
• This can be useful when being attacked by an enemy that has one/low health (eg. summoned swarmers from a Silithid Swarmer) as it will kill itself.

Past changes

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External links

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