Seed of Corruption FTWFollow

I've realized that this spell has massive damage potential in pvp, perhaps the most sustainable damage in the game. The DD portion of the spell (the only part that matters damage-wise) does 1300 damage for a 2 second cast time. That's 5k aoe damage in 8 seconds, which comes close to killing poorly some clothies. Over the same time period a mage's blizzard would do 1.5k damage. SoC's aoe radius is 15 yards, compared with 8 yards for blizzard, or 10 yards for AE. I think some players don't realize how large this radius is and don't or can't spread out far enough.

All this makes SoC devastating in certain situations such as defending the bottlenecks in AV. These create target rich environments where you can position yourself to be protected from melee attack. I've topped the damage charts doing this, and it's not because I have great gear. SoC scales horribly with gear.

Of course this tactic has an obvious counter, which is to dispel the dot. But it may not be so obvious that four players have been hit with SoC - it's not like you have shards of ice raining down on your head. Then boom - everyone's dead.

I noticed 2800 last night in normal Bot, not even very buffed.

It is sweet when someone has to run one of those instances I used to dread and fear as fresh 70. No CC, no fiddling around... just SoC all the way.

Its becoming my favorite spell.

When in AV and casting it on a group, do a UA > SoC > UA > SoC type deal. 4 or 5 of those and much loling will ensue.

when ever I go to AV horde always sit at the flag at that vermin mine, not that Its a problem but me and a Mage would hide behind a tree while I start casting SoC and he would run out and AE to proc SoC early and we could kill 13-14 defenders in a matter of about 15-20 seconds.... With fel armor my seed procs close to 2850 crits

The sound always makes me think of the sound a pack of cards makes when you riffle them - except amplified.