Improved Chaos Bolt
Tree position
In the Destruction Warlock talent tree, Improved Chaos Bolt sits in the Destruction specialization talents, row 8 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 20 points are spent in Destruction Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Improved Chaos Bolt from Reverse Entropy and Crashing Chaos or Rain of Chaos.
Reverse EntropyYour spells have a chance to grant you 15% Haste for 8 sec.
Crashing ChaosSummon Infernal increases the damage of your next 8 casts of Chaos Bolt by 25% or your next 8 casts of Rain of Fire by 35%.
Rain of ChaosWhile your initial Infernal is active, every Soul Shard you spend has a 15% chance to summon an additional Infernal that lasts 8 sec.
Connected below
Improved Chaos Bolt leads on to Chaos Incarnate and Conflagration of Chaos.
Chaos IncarnateChaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, and Shadowburn always gain at least 70% of the maximum benefit from your Mastery: Chaotic Energies.
Conflagration of ChaosConflagrate and Shadowburn have a 100% chance to critically strike and their damage is increased by your critical strike chance.
Same row
Also on this row: Ruin, Destructive Rapidity and Devastation.

Destructive RapidityIncreases how quickly Rain of Fire deals damage by 25% and how quickly your Infernal's Immolation deals damage by 10%.

Talent trees
Improved Chaos Bolt is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Warlock: Affliction (DPS), Demonology (DPS), Destruction (DPS).
Improved Chaos Bolt Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)