Envenomed Breath  

For beasties having trouble with fizzled DoT spells (like Envenomed Breath), the answer should already be in your spell book. At level 17 you got Summon Drink and at level 29 you got Summon Food. (Come on you bought the spell, right?) Every time you log on to your beastie cast until you have a stack on 20 summoned water and 20 summoned food -- just watch your conjuration skill go up. If you have waited until level 35 to begin, you may want to spend a couple hours making bags full of summoned food. You can also practice cast you lower level DoT spells on your pet for skillups. (BTW, the pet will not be hurt by this process so no PETA flamers, please!!)
Luknu Upandown of Stromm -- 35th season Vah Shir Beastlord

i am having a ton of trouble casting this spell... i am a 41 bst with a conj skill of about 106 and i can never cast this without fizzling away 80% of my mana... is anyone else having this problem?

As a shaman i have found this spell to be simply incredible.

After leaving the paludal caverns at about level 25, i have noticed that mobs in sucessive zones, for example netherbian lair, mseru and dawnshroud peaks had a shockingly large amount of HP compared to our old friends, the bandits of the paludal caverns.

I was faced with long fights when soloing, my melee skills being well developed and yet the mobs just would not die fast enough. I was finding the fiends in the neth lair surviving long enough for slow to wear off, and well, basicaly experience would slow down.

Enter Envenomed Breath spell. With a cheap (on most servers) burning affliction II item (serpentine bracer), affliction efficiency and haste, this little number has dramaticaly increased the rate of kills at the level that we get this spell.

While in the neth lair, i would pull with slow, then while the mob was still running, this dot, and then just melee it to death. Thus the mobs would die a lot faster.

Another great thing about this spell is helping you with adds. When meleeing one mob, and one or two mobs would add, i'd keep all adds under the effect of this rather nice DOT. Then when my main target was dead, i'd go back to the add, and it would be already significantly wounded.

Its like having a melee friend with you :)

Anothe tip i'd like to pass on to fellow shamans is to use our dots as much as possible. Sure, you might be twinked to such extent that the damage of these spells at lower levels seems insignificant when compared to your uber twinking BUT remember the school of conjuration. Our higher level DOTs benefit from having high conjuration skill. Our pets benefit from knowing conjuration.

There is a point somewhere midway through your shaman career when dots become so powerful that no matter what weapon you have (bar maybe lodestar from the cragqueen...maybe), the dots will be always way more powerful dps than your melee.

So, to sum it all up, this spell is great to speed up kills at a time when mobs have more and more hp as well as helping you work up the conjuration skill for your later shamaning career :)

good luck and good hunting.

sold on the shaman spell vendor in abysmal sea.. Hatem use ctrl F to find (abysmal sea is accessed from the magus in nedaria's landing)

does the same shaman DoT spells stack? IE if I cast this 2 times on a mob will it cause twice as much damage over the 7 ticks? or is it a waste of mana to continue to cast this spell if the mob is already affected ?

any one know if it procs alot on any weapons?

I have bought this spell in Shar Vahl from Dar Khura Ahmih for 17pp 5gp 6sp 2cp with a cha of 76 and ally faction.

The merchant can be found in the building near the bank on the second floor out on the balcony.

Cheers

I believe this spell is also sold on the Shaman DoT vendor in Everfrost, and possibly in Ferrot (not sure on that one). A lot easier to get to these locations than trying to get in Cabilis if you're not an Iksar.