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Archimonde's Darkness

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Duration

n/a

School

Shadow

Mechanic

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Dispel type

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GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

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GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Modifies Charges (1447)
Value: 2

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Cooldown (11)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
Affected Spells:

	Dark Soul: Knowledge		Dark Soul: Misery		Dark Soul: Instability

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Comment by demonlock666

Now I will take revenge on all whisps around Azeroth!

Comment by Alnair

The passive effect of this ability can only reflect targeted damage to its originator. in a PVE context, a great deal of raid boss AoE attacks are counted as 'environmental damage' and cannot be reflected to any originator per se.

However the active effect of the ability does not reflect damage to the originator of the attack, instead it redirects damage to the target of you choosing. In this case environmental AoE damage is counted toward the damage redirected toward your target.

You would would want to time activating AV to coincide with periods of unavoidable spike damage for maximum effectiveness.

Comment by Alnair

The following was written not by me but taken from another player:

With both AV and Soul Link active, any damage that goes to your pet is reflected as if it had hit you. So, if your pet takes a 10k hit, AV hits the attacker with 1k damage. This only works with Soul Link active, normally damage to the pet is ignored by AV.

A couple more interesting facts about AV:

AV does "Spell" type damage, which I'm assuming is a combined damage type including all schools except physical, as all schools including physical is called Chaos damage.

AV's damage is calculated before mitigation and absorbs (avoided damage isn't reflected). For example, if you want to soak a 150k hit with Unending Resolve, the damage passively reflected back is 15k, not 7.5k. The same goes for physical damage mitigated by armor. I'm not sure how it interacts with resilience.

AV's damage is affected by anything that increases spell damage, like CoE, or any effect that increases all damage taken. Presumably, the damage can be reduced in the same way, though I haven't tested this yet. Again, I'm not sure how this interacts with resilience, or PvP power for that matter.

AV's damage has a cap based on your health. So, it's not really a good idea to pop Dark Bargain and soak attacks that are individually greater than your health pool. I'm pretty sure it's based on your current health, though I need to test some more. I'm also not sure if the cap takes Soul Link into account, using it as an effective health increase to raise the cap.

Also, I don't know what happens when two warlocks with AV attack eachother. Probably nothing interesting, though I could be wrong.

PvE AoE damage taken by a Soul Linked pet is reflected, but it's reduced by the pet's 90% AoE damage reduction first, so there's no double-dipping there if you're both getting hit.

Comment by Histel

What about Life Tap? Will damage taken from Life Tap hurt the selected target for AV?

Comment by PalaDinka

So if i pop Sacrifical Pact will the absorbed damage be redirected or it won't deal damage that way?

Comment by AlexSkylark

O my god... The healers in my raiding group are SO gonna hate me from now on... LOL

Comment by tomgc

While either the passive or active is up, the Warlock will expel shadowy tendrils towards attackers.

Comment by Corq

Would be nice if this worked with the spell Life Tap

Comment by shmonnorshmusie

Does the damage returned count as tapping the target? Say I'm pulling a big group and then felstorming or something, will I be able to loot the mobs or will it think that my felgaurd did all the work?

Comment by Arikara

In patch 5.2, the passive from this talent no longer has purple death lightning. :C

Comment by Thecanman

You can pop Sacrificial Pact then use this spell, and it will still do damage to the enemy. That way, you can stand in the fire and use the spell to it's full potential without the healer having a heart attack.

Edit: No longer relevant. The ability has been totally redesigned, it's now a more useful talent than it's predecessor.

Comment by NukeAlleria

When two warlocks with Archimonde's Vengeance attack each other, the entire internet bursts into flames. Green flames.

Comment by Alnair

Archimonde's Vengeance is being redesigned for 5.4.

For the passive portion of the talent, each time the Warlock or their pet takes damage, the Warlock now gains 1% of the unmitigated damage back as spell power for 20 seconds.

The Active portion of this talent will presumably function as before (and deactivate the passive effect while on cooldown).

It is important to note that the passive portion of the spell now calculates the bonus effect based on the pre-mitigation value of the damage (i.e. before shielding, armor, resistance, etc.) which has been a major drawback of the current version (which only reflects damage after mitigation).

Comment by Sulblaka

This is the redisgned version of Archimonde's Vengeance, as it is right now, on the PTR

Archimonde's Darkness

Your Dark Soul spells have two charges.

Thats pretty much it, no other change, no reduction, a 40 s burst.

As it is right now, this talent is too damn good and will surely be nerfed before 5.4 hits.

But if its not, not using this talent would be a big DPS loss unless AoE or A LOT of movement is required.

Comment by denzildk

if anyone is looking for a weakaura that includes cooldown on the 2'nd charge, as i were, i have made one, you can edit it as you see fit.
and if you make an improvment on it be sure to share it as a reply on this thread. it wil bee a string so be sure to copy it all:

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Comment by Sas148

If this is designed similar to Conflagrate then this is the talent of choice for PvE dps.

Comment by BoxTV

strong skill when no movement is included

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