Strongest spell in vanilla

Greetings,

Im just curious to know what is the strongest spell/skill in terms of raw power. Im not looking for the most dps eficient. But what is the spell in the game that can do the highest damage in classic from a single use.

Thanks all.

Summon Doomguard?

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Given the instakill of a party member, on raw damage yes. On damaging to the enemy, probably Pyroblast against a single target and Hellfire against AOE.

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Im looking for damaging enemies.

Soulfire doesn’t have a higher damage output than Pyro?

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I was just going off guesses. I can’t be bothered doing an analysis for something I have zero need for.

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Couldn’t an ignite tick be just ridiculously large if the stars aligned and allowed it to climb? Assumed chance for this being .0000000000001%.

The highest amount of damage you can get in a single cast is probably Hellfire.

Both single target and AoE. It does 3120 baseline damage.

Pyroblast is ~900 and Soul Fire is ~800.

Offhand catfish?

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Pyroblast. /thread

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Not sure what you’re smoking.

https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=11684/hellfire

Baseline 208 damage at 60.

offhand catfish so imba and op

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Times 15…

Still counts as a single cast, even if it’s channeled.

That said, I’m 99% sure I know what the OP is asking and it’s not that. The answer is pyroblast.

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The most amount of damage added per mana spent over the length of the spell?

Windfury Totem - Hands down. Literally everything else is trash compared to the damage boost this provides. /thread

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Negatory. She said:

I already said Hellfire was the highest damage for AOE.

Any Hunters in here?

Wondering what’s the highest crits we get.

I’m getting 300-500 on multi shot and consistent 1k+ with Aimed shot at 49.

Per tick

I think fire mages creating a rolling ignite is the highest DPS in the game, could be wrong

That’s not a single spell though, that’s a sustained DPS practice.

There’s a reason why PoM+Pyro is a spec of its own.

Yeah i was not clear in my topic. I enjoy seen larger numbers from a spell. So i was wondering what spell could have the potential to hit high numbers on screen.

What? Hellfire will do 213 * 15 damage (for a total of 3,195) single target (or otherwise) if you let it channel for the full 15 seconds. Technically, you only cast it once, and therefore it’s the highest damage “per cast” spell in the game. But only technically.

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