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Old November 06, 2008, 02:05 AM  

Improved Shadow Bolt

Welcome to the discussion thread on everything "Improved Shadow Bolt". 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 Improved Shadow Bolt. Please remember to keep all replies on topic and polite.
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Old August 26, 2009, 03:50 PM   #10 (permalink)

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Xavron
80 Gnome Warlock
Moon Guard US RP PvE
Guild: Veritas
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Talent Spec: 53/1/17
Re: Improved Shadow Bolt

ISB shows up as a debuff on the target.
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Old August 26, 2009, 09:51 PM   #11 (permalink)

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Xachary
80 Undead Warlock
Arathor US PvE
Guild: Phoenix Elite
Talent Spec: 3/13/55
3.2 Re: Improved Shadow Bolt

Thanks Xavron, it was driving me crazy! Therefore, its now more or less a raid buff applied to target to increase damage done done to it by 5%, not a self-buff...It was indeed a smidge ambiguous Blub!

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Old August 29, 2009, 01:30 AM   #12 (permalink)

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Maurice
80 Gnome Warlock
Burning Legion US PvP
Guild: Infamous Mob
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Talent Spec: 0/13/58
3.2 Re: Improved Shadow Bolt

It is a raid buff, but I believe it only increase crit chance for the entire raid. This does not scale directly to a 5% damage increase. You shouldn't need it in your "rotation". This spell is much like CoD, refresh it when it is up and do a regular rotation otherwise. With enough haste you should be able to do more than 1 rotation every 30s.
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Old August 29, 2009, 01:37 AM   #13 (permalink)

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80 Undead Warlock
maiev US PvP
Profile: Blizzard Armory

3.2 Re: Improved Shadow Bolt

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Originally Posted by Xachary View Post
Therefore, its now more or less a raid buff applied to target to increase damage done done to it by 5%
No, it increases crit chance by 5%. Your shadow bolts passively apply this effect with ISB 5/5.
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Old August 29, 2009, 07:17 AM   #14 (permalink)

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Devicus
80 Gnome Warlock
thunderhorn Euro PvE
Guild: Rise
Profile: Blizzard Armory

3.2 Re: Improved Shadow Bolt

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No, it increases crit chance by 5%. Your shadow bolts passively apply this effect with ISB 5/5.

To clarify, Evictoray is right here. The talent has two effects on your shadowbolt. The first is that it does 5% more damage. This is not related to the second effect, which is apply the 5% crit debuff. They are twin effects of one talent.
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