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For lore about Chaos energy, see fel.

Chaos is a school of magic wielded by warlocks and demon hunters. It's a uniquely comprehensive multi-school, combining five or more of the seven damage types. It always includes Arcane, Fire, Frost, Nature, and Shadow; and can optionally include Holy and Physical.

Multi-school abilities benefit from bonuses that affect any of their schools, use the lowest resistance value among their schools, ignore absorption and immunity effects that apply to only some of their schools, and can be used even when one or more of their schools have been locked with an interrupt effect.

Chaos's nature guarantees that damage done will not be mitigated by any armor, resistances or school-specific effects the target might possess. However, mitigation and immunity abilities that are not school-specific (such as Spell frost frost [Ice Block] and Spell holy divineshield [Divine Shield]) as well as damage-absorption shields provide by abilities like Spell deathknight deathstrike [Mastery: Blood Shield] and Spell holy powerwordshield [Power Word: Shield] will still absorb, mitigate or completely prevent damage from this school. Due to its comprehensive nature, it is impossible for players to be locked out of the Chaos school unless a Chaos spell itself is interrupted, in which case spells of all included schools will be locked out.

Chaos spells[]

Demon hunter[]

Ability Schools Notes
Arcane Fire Frost Holy Nature Shadow Physical
Inv glaive 1h npc d 02 [Annihilation]
Spell fire felfirenova [Chaos Nova]
Ability demonhunter chaosstrike [Chaos Strike]
Ability demonhunter consumemagic [Disrupt]
Ability demonhunter eyebeam [Eye Beam]
Spell shadow ritualofsacrifice [Essence Break]
Inv felbarrage [Fel Barrage]
Ability bossfellord felspike [Fel Eruption]
Spell fire felflamebolt [Fel Lance]
Ability demonhunter felrush [Fel Rush]
Inv glaive 1h artifactazgalor d 06dual [Glaive Tempest]
Inv glaive 1h artifactazgalor d 01 [Fury of the Illidari] Removed
Ability demonhunter manabreak [Mana Break] Removed
Spell mage supernova [Mana Rift] Removed

Warlock[]

Ability Schools Notes
Arcane Fire Frost Holy Nature Shadow Physical
Ability warlock chaosbolt [Chaos Bolt]
Ability warlock coil2 [Chaos Wave] Removed
Spell warlock demonicportal purple [Dimensional Rift]

Notes[]

Trivia[]

  • In Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Chaos was an attack type that did full damage to all armor types.
  • The combination of Arcane, Fire, Frost, Nature, and Shadow damage is sometimes referred to as "Chromatic damage" among players.

Patch changes[]

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