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Welcome to the discussion thread on everything "Shadow Embrace". Below you will find some useful information to give you a rough overview of this talent and how it comes into play, followed by comments, opinions and information from Warlocks who have first have experience with it. This thread is here to ask questions, seek advice and provide help and information on everything relating to Shadow Embrace. Please remember to keep all replies on topic and polite.

Talent information:
Talent Tree: Affliction, Tier 5
Requires: 20 points already spent in Affliction Talents
A passive effect that places a Shadow Embrace effect on your target when using Shadow Bolt and Haunt. Shadow Embrace increases all damage over time done to the target, while also reducing the effects of any heal over time spells.

Ranks:

Rank 1: Your Shadow Bolt and Haunt spells apply the Shadow Embrace effect, increasing all periodic damage dealt to the target by you by 1%, and reduces all periodic healing done to the target by 3%. Lasts for 12 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

Rank 2: Your Shadow Bolt and Haunt spells apply the Shadow Embrace effect, increasing all periodic damage dealt to the target by you by 2%, and reduces all periodic healing done to the target by 6%. Lasts for 12 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

Rank 3: Your Shadow Bolt and Haunt spells apply the Shadow Embrace effect, increasing all periodic damage dealt to the target by you by 3%, and reduces all periodic healing done to the target by 9%. Lasts for 12 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

Rank 4: Your Shadow Bolt and Haunt spells apply the Shadow Embrace effect, increasing all periodic damage dealt to the target by you by 4%, and reduces all periodic healing done to the target by 12%. Lasts for 12 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

Rank 5: Your Shadow Bolt and Haunt spells apply the Shadow Embrace effect, increasing all periodic damage dealt to the target by you by 5%, and reduces all periodic healing done to the target by 15%. Lasts for 12 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

Further Explanation:
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Talent while Levelling:
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Talent in 5 Man Instances:
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Talent while Raiding:
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Talent in PvP Battlegrounds:
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Pre Wrath of the Lich King Threads:

Shadow Embrace Original discussion thread.
Shadow Embrace changed in latest build (and a few other changes) Discussion thread on the more recent version of Shadow Embrace.

January 03, 2009, 05:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
ydnandrew	SE Bug - For the good of the raid Please move this if it belongs elsewhere. Since my question is both about a specific talent and raid spec I am not sure where to post it. Okay, so we know shadow embrace is currently bugged and only applies to the first affliction lock to hit the mob with haunt or a shadow bolt. This means that any other affliction locks will be losing out on about 10% of their dot damage, right? I recently joined a new guild and so far have been putting out top dps, but I am one of two affliction locks. Even without SE last night I put up 3.6k dps on Razuvious. My question is, since I am the new guy in the guild and can't really ask the other lock to respec (although his dps is quite low right now) should I stay affliction or try deep destro, since that appears to be the 2nd highest dps spec? I just don't know which would be better without going through the change and testing it.

January 03, 2009, 05:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
Rutiene Character Info Luxury 80 Blood Elf Warlock Deathwing US PvP Guild: Addiction Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 54/0/17	Re: SE Bug - For the good of the raid Its about 7-8% dps loss for the lock that doesn't get the SE buff. A loss in DPS that probably would be matched when you respec, so really there's no point.

January 04, 2009, 06:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
Zragoll Character Info Zragoll 80 Blood Elf Warlock Dreadmaul Oceania PvP Guild: Fluffy Bunny Brigade Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 62/8/0	Re: SE Bug - For the good of the raid If Rutienne is correct, then you lose out about the same DPS no matter what move you make. If thats the case, I'd be sitting tight as Blizz will fix the SE Bug at some point. Although if it is anything like the old Shammy Stormstrike bug that afflicted the class since Storm Strike came into being and was only fixed when BC came out, then you might be waiting a while for the SE bug fix. (Stormstrike together with Improved Windfury should have allowed a shammy to attack 3 times if Windfury proc which was almost a guarantee in the old days, but the bug prevented the windfury proc, there was a workaround that shammies used in the form of a macro, but that wasn't entirely great either) __________________ Zragoll...

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