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Scorch
Spell fire soulburn
  • Scorch
  • Row 3 Fire mage talent
  • 40 yd range
  • 1% of base mana
  • 1.5 sec cast
  • Scorches an enemy for (24.4% of Spell power) Fire damage. Castable while moving.
Properties
Class Mage
School Fire
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required Spell fire fireball [Fire Blast]
Improvements Ability mage fierypayback [Improved Scorch], Ability warlock backdraft [Searing Touch]

Scorch is a Fire mage talent. It deals light damage to an enemy and is castable while moving.

This ability directly blasts the target rather than throwing a projectile. This means it doesn't have a travel time and, in PvP, doesn't give enemy players any hint what direction it came from.

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Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Damage reduced by 10%.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-06-05): Damage increased by 10%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02):
    • Damage increased by 15%.
    • Damage increased by 45% in PvP combat (was 25%).
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-12-19): Damage increased by 12%.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-12-05): Damage increased by 10%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 Fire talent (was a level 13 Fire ability).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 13 (was 14).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now learned at level 14 (was 18). Damage reduced by 75%.
  • Legion Patch 7.2.0 (2017-03-28): Damage increased by 18%.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-01-23): Increased the damage of Scorch by 3%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage increased by 27%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 18 (was 40).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now learned at level 40 (was 22). Damage increased by 100%. Base mana cost reduced to 1%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now learned at level 22 (was 48). Damage reduced to 25% of spell power.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): No longer a talent and is now available to Fire Mages at level 48. Base mana cost increased from 0.1% to 2%.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 15 talent (was a level 26 ability) and can be cast while moving.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2010-11-23): When Scorch is cast by a mage who has Spell fire soulburn [Improved Scorch] Rank 2, it will no longer consume Spell shadow manaburn [Clearcasting].
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Range increased to 40 yd (was 30). now learned at level 26 (was 22).
  • Test-inline Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Damage increased.

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