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Grimoire of Sacrifice

Grimoire of Sacrifice
Unlimited range

Instant	30 sec cooldown

Requires Warlock (Affliction, Destruction)
Requires level 75

Sacrifice your demon to gain one of its abilities, and to increase the damage of your

Affliction
Drain Soul, Haunt, and Drain Life by 20%

Destruction
Incinerate, Chaos Bolt, and Shadowburn by 20%. Does not apply to spells affected by Fire and Brimstone

Also causes you to regenerate 2% of maximum health every 8 sec.

Lasts 1 hour or until you summon a demon.

Buff

Grimoire of Sacrifice

Affliction
Drain Soul, Haunt, and Drain Life by 20%

Destruction
Incinerate, Chaos Bolt, and Shadowburn by 20%. Does not apply to spells affected by Fire and Brimstone

Restores 2% of maximum health every 8 sec.
1 hour remaining

Spell Details

Duration

1 hour

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

50000 yards (Anywhere)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

30 seconds

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Instakill

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Total Health Regen % (127)
Value: 2% every 8 seconds

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Increase Maximum Health - %
Value: 20%

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 20%
Affected Spells:

Corruption	Harvest Life	Shadowburn
Haunt	Agony	Seed of Corruption
Chaos Bolt	Incinerate	Unstable Affliction

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 20%
Affected Spells:

	Drain Soul		Drain Life

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Comments

Comment by Siniroth

As Destruction, using Flames of A'lar, you will be able to benefit from the doubled effect multiple times in a fight, fight length pending.

Comment by Railander

How blizzard thinks:
"Oh look, the 30% wasnt enough.... lets double it!"

in that same thursday after maintenance:
*Dark Soul, Grim. of Sacrifice, LOLCHAOSBOLTBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMrank1*

Comment by Seiru

Using Grimoire of Sacrifice now grants you an ability depending on the demon sacrificed (in addition to the passive buff). They are as follows:

Succubus:
Felhunter: Spell Lock
Voidwalker: Shadow Bulwark
Imp: Singe Magic
Felguard: Pursuit

These spells replace your "Command Demon" ability in your spellbook.

Comment by Keelerak

IMO should also increase demonology lock's damage by 30% of the increase his pet would receive from mastery, so it won't suck so much for this spec.

Why downrate? A talent which removes the pet is quite weak for a spec focusing on making the said pet stronger

Comment by NickElGreko

As of August 29 2012 that this went to live, the 2% of max health regeneration ticks (perhaps mistakenly) trigger effects like Power Torrent and many on-equip "chance on succcessful spellcasting" trinkets.

Comment by PerfeCisolation

Wowhead shows this spell is modified by Soul Link how does that work if at all?

Comment by Gershuun

For Affliction Warlocks these spells are increased by 50%:
Drain Soul, , Haunt, .

For Demonology Warlocks these spells are increased by 30%:
Shadow Bolt, Soul Fire, Hand of Gul'dan, , Wild Imps, .

For Destruction Warlocks these spells are increased by 25%:
Incinerate, Conflagrate, Shadowburn, Chaos Bolt, .
Spells modified by Fire and Brimstone are unaffected.

Comment by Whitexx5

As no one seems to have mentioned this. Enslaving a demon will not remove you of this buff, you can have a demon-pet by your side as long as you do not actually summon it from your hot-bar.

Comment by Mirrodin

I just used it today (3 September 2012) and i noticed that as affliction warlock you don't have a command demon spell, so you can't use any of your demon's abilities, also it sucks that this spell does not affect unstable affliction, corruption and agony. The only truly useful spell that is affected is the malefic grasp.

Comment by Praetextus

For those (PvP) warlocks who are using Grimoire of Sacrifice, and want to have an on demand counterspell, the following macro works. However when creating the macro, you will have to shift+left-click the Command Demon spell out of your spell book, AFTER you have sacrificed your demon (felhunter). For some reason, when I attempted to just type in Command Demon, the macro did not function, maybe I mistyped it. The macro also works if you still have your felhunter summoned. I would assume this macro would work for any variant of the Command Demon spell, but I specially made this for focus target counterspells in PvP.

This macro will Spell Lock your focus target if one exists. If a focus target does not exist, it will Spell Lock your current target. Reminder: Spell Lock is castable on any target within Line of Sight, 360 degrees from the caster and inside the 40 yard range.

#showtooltip Command Demon
/stopcasting
/cast Command Demon
/cast Command Demon

At the time of this posting, I can not get the proper spell Command Demon morphs into to show via the #showtooltip . If you place in Spell Lock for the #showtooltip the button will grey out and addons such as omniCC will not put a cooldown timer on it, because it is using the spell ID from the felhunter's abilities. Pets use (Fel) Engery as a resource, which the warlock does not have, which in turn grays it out the button. The macro still works but you get no cooldown timer. If you chose to use your own icon (Id recommend the Spell Lock Icon personally), you will still get the Command Demon tooltip but the cooldown timer and macro still function.

Comment by Kaleb

reviving your pet after sacrificing it WILL remove the effect.

Comment by Anger

It is interesting to note that the Glyph of Demon Training does indeed buff the pet-spell you gain this way.

Unfortunately the only spell that is granted by Grimoire of Sacrifice, that is also buffed by the Glyph, is Seduction.

Comment by Indrigis

As of 5/9/12 is bugged in a few fights, notably Madness of Deathwing.

Since Blizzard implemented a courtesy respawn for pets in fights that involve changing platforms that a pet can't path effectively, your demon WILL respawn on platform change and, thus, cancel out your GoS buff. So you have to sacrifice it again and again. Not that much of a problem, but still a distraction.

Comment by Melech

Either the tooltip is bugged or this got an invisible buff, the effect lasts for 60 minutes rather than the stated 20.

Comment by Alnair

they really ought to add a glyph that switches the special ability you gain from whichever demon you sacrifice to that demon's other special ability: make it a minor glyph and we could use it for niche encounters.

Voidwalker: Disarm instead of Shadow Bulwark
Felguard: Axe toss instead of Pursuit
Felhunter: Devour magic instead of Spell Lock
Imp: Cauterize instead of Singe magic
Succubus: Whiplash instead of Seduction

Comment by Corq

For some reason, everytimes I do Madness, this spell fades when jumping between the platforms. Your pet is automatically resurrected from this and you have to cast this spell again. Ive had it happen as well when going from a dungeon to a battleground. Also, flames of Xoroth (resurrects your pet immediately) will be lit up as if usable. I notice that I don't have an active demon and clicking the flames simply does nothing, but uses it's cooldown. Gets annoying sometimes getting prepared for a boss fight.

Comment by jcrad001

When you sacrifice your Felhunter or Succubus to receive Spell Lock or Seduction, how do you actually use their gained ability?

I do not see them anywhere in my spellbook, except under passive, which I cannot add to my hotbar to cast when I would like to?

Has anyone else had this problem?

Comment by colddraco

Does anyone know if this stacks with fel armor 2% regen buff?

Comment by sylancer

after use Grimoire of Sacrifice, Warlock get a 2% hp5 bonus;

based on which demon sacrifice, the Warlock himself get 1 spell replaces Command Demon:

increase damage of Drain Life by 30%, and base on specialization:

Affliction: increase damage of these spells by 30%:

Drain Soul
Haunt

Demonology: increase damage of these spells by 25%:

Shadow Bolt (Touch of Chaos / Demonic Slash)
Hand of Gul'dan (Chaos Wave)
Soul Fire (Soul Fire)
Wild Imps
(Void Ray)

Destruction: increase damage of these spells by 15%:

Incinerate (unaffected if modified by Fire and Brimstone)
Conflagrate (unaffected if modified by Fire and Brimstone)
Chaos Bolt (deal over 3 sec)
Shadowburn

if Soul Link is also chosen, when pet been Grimoire of Sacrifice, Warlock get a 20% max health bonus.

Glyph of Demon Training does NOT affect Grimoire of Sacrifice.

Hearthstone: Grimoire of Sacrifice

Comment by ZilenoX

BTW the 20% health bonus, only happens if you have the Soul Link talent, otherwise you only get the 2% hp5 bonus

Comment by Thorngral

Untill they add some kind of fury generation to this, It will be subpar for demo warlocks. The damage boost does not measure up to the loss of fury from the pet

Comment by Eierdotter

After doing a little bit of math, in my opinion this talent would be perfectly balanced
to all speccs if Affliction would be supported 30% and Demonology 50%.

The current 50% bonus for Affliction is ridiculous.
Malefic Grasp dealing 75% dot dmg and Drain Soul 150%
leads to nearly twice as much dmg bonus than Supremacy.

Comment by Ryuukei

A friend of mine asked me to write a macro for the use of Grimoire of Sacrifice and Flames of Xoroth.

#showtooltip Grimoire of Sacrifice; Flames of Xoroth
/cast Flames of Xoroth
/run if UnitIsDead("pet") then PetDismiss() end
/cast Grimoire of Sacrifice

With this macro you can pull off two interrupts with no real problem. If you have a pet out and use its ability (for example Felhunter spell lock) and lets say ether you were fake casted or for some other reason you need another interrupt. Clicking this macro will res the pet and let you cast a new spell lock. Effectively merging the two ability's together. I greatly prefer this macro over Grimoire of Service and summoning a second felhunter.For one thing while the pet is sacrificed you gain increased damage to your spells and both Sacrifice and FoX cooldowns are under two minutes with Grimoire of Service I included other pet's simply because I don't always need spell locks. This macro won't suit all specs and talent trees.But if its a macro that fits your play style.I hope it helps.

Comment by Arikara

Any word on how this interacts with Demonology Mastery? Seeing as how part of the mastery increases the damage done by your pet, and all.

Comment by Silmarieni

As of January 8th, 2013 sacrifice on the succubus does give Seduction, not whiplash

Comment by Suzaku

This grimoire was written by Jubeka Shadowbreaker, demonologist and member of the Council of the Black Harvest, based on research conducted at Vim'gol's Circle in Blade's Edge Mountain.

We left a few ogre corpses in our wake, but studying the ritual circle of Vim'gol revealed additional ways of bolstering our power using demonic sarifices. While the act greatly enrages our demonic servants, fusing their life energy to our own provides a dramatic increase in power.

With a little experimentation, I discovered that the more closely linked you are with the demon you sarifice, the great the power of the ritual.
~ Excerpt from Jubeka's Journal

Comment by perculia

Ghostcrawler's thoughts on this talent:

If you hate pets, take Grimoire of Sacrifice (though I also have to challenge a little bit why you picked a pet class to play in the first place). What we don’t want is for warlocks to take Grimoire of Sacrifice just because it’s a dps increase. The average warlock should have a demon out. If a subset of them do not because they takeGrimoire of Sacrifice, we’re okay with that. If very few of them have demons out because a spreadsheet said Grimoire of Sacrifice is a 1% dps increase, then we’re not okay with it.

Thread: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7811342046#1

Comment by 0sleep

Affliction locks screwed much? they took away half our dmg! Idc what anybody says. That's the reason we're last on dps spec list. As if it wasn't bad enough after the last patch. And I don't like the other specs where you either turn into a ridiculous looking demon or have a fugly eyeball following you around. Even if I wouldn't use sacrifice (which would drop my dps to nothing, they went and took Imps blood pact away too. My favorite demon is stripped! I want my Imp or no demon and Grimoire of Sacrifice being reduced to half is just tragic. I'm super pissed.
(Same goes for Arcane mages btw, dmg reduction all over)

Comment by GPTurismo

If they really want to make this talent less attractive they need to change Soul Link to where it doesn't have such a detriment to your pets health pool.

Comment by Liquidsteel

To those Affliction warlocks who believe the sky is falling over the sac nerfs, stop.

At 501 ilvl (where I am currently) the difference between Sac and Supremacy is around 1k dps (119k sac, 120k supremacy). Supremacy will still be better until you gear up more, at which point sac will overtake again and all is back to normal. We're still able to top the damage meters, we just aren't so far ahead any more. Affliction still scales ridiculously well with gear, also.

The difference between the Fel Imp, Shivarra, and Observer is also pretty miniscule. On a patchwerk fight, the observer pulls slightly ahead (again we're talking like 1k dps), but any target switches and the Fel Imp becomes the go to pet. You can basically use what you like.

Also blood pact has now been bolted on to Dark Intent. Our buff now provides 10% stamina as well as the previous 10% spell power buff.

Please, go and do research on your spec before you start complaining. Warlocks are still fine. Actually, all three specs are way closer to each other than before, so in my opinion, we're in a much better place than before.

Comment by Hatsodoom

Harvest Life is also granted a damage boost.

Comment by nightdragon76

Can anyone verify how this works with the passive heal from doing dmg with soul link? Soul link states that both you and your pet get healed for 3% of all the dmg you do, but I have not seen if this stays in affect if you sac your pet, will it still heal you for the dmg dealt? Also in the last boss of the green fire quest if it does still heal does it also heal the enslaved pit lord?

Comment by incognitoasdf

After 02-21-2014, with the season 15 pvp patch coming out, this ability no longer gives the 10% health buff when active.

Comment by Melilithia

If you're like me, and don't like the death animation, you can use this macro:

#showtooltip
/cast Grimoire of Sacrifice
/script PetDismiss()

This will make your guardian simply vanish and say their goodbyes, rather than killing them.

Comment by drhrth

Is Whiplash effective at knocking players off ledges...like Shamans Thunderstorm?
Also, would someone in the know please explain how Sac now works for each spec in WoD.
Many thanks!

Comment by GPTurismo

Just confirmed by Celestalon via a question I had for WoD, but you can Sac with Demonic Servitude. (maybe he's responding to the part of it been asked?)

https://twitter.com/Krzysztov_NP/status/492113707279736832

Comment by Mirrodin

One really annoying bug that i found is that in madness of Deathwing encounter in Dragon Soul when you jump from platform to platform your last demon gets instantly re-summoned and this buff gets canceled. I send a report to Blizzard about this many times and they still haven't fixed it and probably they never will.

Comment by naquan52

I don't get why this move can be purged and spell stoning by Mages and shamans. This is a talent not just some buff that you can just reapply every sec, it has a 30 sec cool-down and and have to summon another pet.

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