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Hellfire

Hellfire
2% of base mana, plus 2% per second
Channeled
Requires Warlock (Demonology)
Requires level 22

Ignites the caster, causing [14 * (15.75% of Spell power)] Fire damage to himself and 0 Fire damage to all nearby enemies over 14 sec. Generates 10 Demonic Fury per second plus 3 Demonic Fury per second on secondary targets.

Demonology
Metamorphosis transforms this spell into Immolation Aura:

Immolation Aura
Ignites the area surrounding the caster, causing 0 Fire damage over 10 sec to all nearby enemies.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

14 seconds

School

Fire

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

2% of base mana, plus 2% per second

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Value: 1 every 1 second

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 1 every 1 second

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 10
Server-side script

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 3
Server-side script

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Comment by Mahmoth

Excellent for a quick escape. Suiciding with this doesn't cause durability loss, so if you need to wipe or lose aggro, die with this instead of getting killed.

Comment by ShadeofChaoS

With Pyroclasm Rank 1 will be very usefull for high lvls.

Comment by Eyepodimo

A very useful skill, in a raid or such, if wipe is inevitable, start casting hellfire so you wont lose durability from dying.

Another clever way of using this spell is in places like scholo where if none of your team mates have the key to open the locked door, you can just hellfire n rez again behind the door, giving entry to your team.

Fun dps Aoe spell overall.

Comment by Sistarose

It can kill you, but with healing back up, a great way to clear lower non elite mobs in instances. With so few AoEs for locks and the fact that it can be brought up at any moment, it might not save your behind, but will let you go out with a bang.

Comment by qhiiyr

Be warned that this causes x damage to you every second, just like the surrounding mobs.

I was testing this out for the first time and thought you only got one tick of damage. Ended up almost dying in-city XD

Comment by samy13

0/31/30 sacriface Succubus, soul link yourself, get healer (resto shaman or holy/prot pala) will be good and mage. Alterac Valey wait enemy fractions atack Drek/Valdemar will be better do not wait longer enemy killl him guards. Run to best location with more enemy near to you, start hellfire to hell . Healer keep you alive, mage finish runing people. Have fun.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?0000000000000000000002050030133250100501000050500512222010500000

Comment by TOPACE31

Here's an effective way of using Hellfire. Summon a Voidwalker if you don't have him out already then have him use Sacrifice. It absorbs the damage from Hellfire too.

Comment by HappyDude2

I use this as a ganking tool against melee classes.

Throw on your DoT's (CoE works well to buy you time), but if they get to you, activate Hellfire and sacrifice the VW for an extra 3k damage to them.

Not super efficient but scares the hell out of them :)

Comment by fizzbang

Can the casting warlock use fire resistance gear and/or potions to negate the self inflicted fire damage?

Comment by hollisbrown

You can use this to break sheep.
Right timing and it works like priest SWD

Comment by DeathBlood

Hellfire is amazing for PvP, as it can be used to prevent polymorphs, seductions, and blinds!

Of course using Hellfire to prevent a crowd-control is not something you'd see from your everyday player, but it's one of those little things that separates a good player from a great player.

Comment by hinabi

does anyone know the accutal radius of this spell? and is it effected by destuctive reach

nvm found the effect text says 10yard radius..still wondering if destuctive reach effects it though

Comment by Groundlord

Warlocks can use this to get past certain doors and gates (such as the Scholomance door; this was a BIG help for my Blood Elf Warlock, since Scholo was one of the instances that was "abandoned" when TBC came out) that they don't have the key for; simply Life Tap until you get the "Fizzled" message, then use Hellfire. You get where you want to go, and your gear isn't any more damaged than it was before you killed yourself.

Comment by zoroz

life tap+hellfire makes the healers like you

Comment by Ilion

If you casting Hellfire you've got a chase to get out from polymorph, root or fear, because you take damage:D
So, if you see a mage casting polymorph you'd do: cast hellfire.

Comment by Interest

Hellfire is also handy for proccing Prayer of Mending.

Comment by Ghaara

Is it working with Nether Protection effect ?

Comment by warlockstan618

i may try this out as an experiment, find a safe place to test it. like in a horde capitol. i'd have my VW out, and use scarifice, and use the hellfire spell to see if i cna absorb the dammage while i can dmaage any of my foes.

Comment by Tariele

I have never used this because of the damage it causes to myself. Lol ^^

If you need aoe, what about rain of fire? That would serve a similar purpose? How does it compare?

Comment by kittym4ster

ok, 2 questions, can this spell crit? and if so, does the crit do the same amount of damage to u as it does to the mob?

Comment by Pherry

In it's current state this spell is useless for anything but killing yourself in order to avoid a repairbill or otherwise. It's got a high mana cost and damage nowhere near Rain of Fire's, it also seems Hellfire can't crit while Rain of Fire can.

Comment by Camalleon

You can activate Soul Link: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=19028 to transfer 20% of that damage to you demon.
So it will reduce the damage you take from 83 to 67 per sec.

Comment by BaconSupreme

I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!

Comment by Coalvayne

This is why you see a lot of dead level 30 Warlocks by Warlock trainers.

Comment by Ghaara

How Hellfire scales with Spell Power ?

Comment by johnpatrik

the damage done to yourself from this effect can be resisted with enough fire resistance, or atleast parts of it ^^

Comment by Dithren

i just saw some warlock kill himself with this infront of his trainer...god thats funny! but yeah....this is an amazing spell for aoe dmg....new sacrifice doesnt kill ur voidwalker just takes a little of his health...and if ur demo spec with Demonic Brutality, the shield from sac. absorbs even more dmg <3

Comment by Tokyoma

Yeah, I've had a lot of success with running around pulling 3~4 similar leveled mobs with CoA and Corruption, between each one I would throw the voidwalker on the last one I pulled so he'd torment it off of me while I pulled the next, once I had him taking the aggro for most, I'd get in the middle, throw up the sacrifice shield, and cast hell fire, generally with soul link you can end up killing all of the mobs taking very little damage, or if you time it right and jump out of the hell fire and backwards from the mobs, they'll die from the last tick of the DoTs. Though, I'm only level 34 and I have no points in destruction or affliction, everything is in demonology. Good luck.

Comment by KainSoB

If you have Nether Protection then you need not worry much about Fire Damage taken, I've always viewed this as a melee class scaring spell; if they get too close you hellfire them till they back off.

Comment by scientician

I think I finally found a use for this spell (or at least a fun way to use it that doesn't necessarily involve killing yourself). Spec 51-point demonology for metamorphosis, with the rest of your points in destruction. The ordering of stuff is key here.

1. Get into a crowd of stuff to AoE, put corruption on a few things. This gives you a chance to increase fire spell damage.
2. Cast metamorphosis, then activate trinkets and CDs.
3. Cast immolation aura (demon) and hellfire at the same time

Neither of those two fire PbAoEs can crit, but each one ticks for about 800 every second on my level 74 warlock with 1100 demonology-enhanced spellpower. With soul link, some of the damage done to you from this spell is done to your felguard instead, and with the tier-1 talent that heals your pet for a percentage of the damage you do, your pet has no chance of dying.

Aggro is actually a big problem with this tactic. Doing this in instances, I can do 2k dps to a single target using these two spells (at level 74!). Its hard to live long or prevent knockbacks or interruptions when doing the AoE in a real multi-mob situation, but on target dummies I can reach about 4.8k-5k DPS on 4 targets.

Could this be the purpose behind hellfire? Who knows, but try it out. It's kinda fun the first time you do it!

Comment by joegolike

A useful combo is to roll a destro lock with a holy smite priest. Round up a bunch of mobs, the lock casts hellfire while the priest spams holy nova. My friend and I have a lot of fun dropping 7-10 mobs this way. The holy nova seems to keep the lock health up and the extra dps added to the hellfire burns the mobs down pretty quick.

Comment by pviola01

This spell is useful in the Twin Valkyr fight if you pick up the Light Essence. The light damage you absorb during the encounter is actually fire damage, so if you use Hellfire prior to the fight when you have Light Essence, you can actually gain stacks of the light aura without taking any damage. At 100 stacks you gain Empowered Light, so its best to gain 90-99 stacks of the buff prior to the fight, and then crash into a light ball to do serious damage early in the fight. Watch out for your threat though!

Comment by Onijitsu

Being an Engineer, I and some guildies have joked about me running into the middle of a massive trash-pull, using Hellfire, and then detonating myself with one of those Goblin bombs, just before reaching bottom.

(Edit: Might be a fun way to get the Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy! achievement)

Comment by geode4723

This spell also spawns city guards as if a horde were causing damage to an npc.
Only one guard spawns though.

Comment by res1233

do the math, hellfire does 451 damage PER SECOND, so 451*8(the duration of rain of fire) = 3608 which means this spell easily does more damage than rain of fire, and the fact it lasts almost twice as long means that you actualy are using less mana per point of damage, so, if you were to say, have a priest bubble you before you do this, you'll actualy be doing way more damage and using far less mana than rain of fire spamming, so, with that said, this spell is actualy VERY useful, you just have to know how to use it =)

Also, there is something seriously wrong with how the overall damage and/or the damage per second is calculated with rain of fire, check it out, by my calculations, rain of fire should do 337.5 damage per second if the overall damage output is 2.7k, yet the number there is twice that. Correct me if I'm wrong lol it might be just wowhead too.

Case solved, rain of fire doesn't do damage every second, it's every TWO seconds, meaning the actual dps is half the number shown, meaning that hellfire does indeed to more dps, again, correct me if I'm wrong.

And yes, hellfire definitely does do damage per second as indicated.

Comment by jster

it might do more dps, but it scales with spell power differently.

Comment by Rfvcool

just realised it's damage is reduced by resilience which is kinda lol

Comment by LoreAddict

Frollo seems quite knowledgeable in the workings of this spell

Comment by Tabris

Hellfire is going to be changed in Cataclysm to not deal damage to the Warlock and is being geared to be the aoe used by Demonology according to a blue.

"The intent for Hellfire is for it to be a specialty of Demonology warlocks. Affliction would use Seed of Corruption and Destruction would use Rain of Fire." -Zarhym

Comment by savlion

My least favorite lock skill, coming from a tank. Some noob locks will run to you after you make a large pull, hellfire until they're nearly dead, and steal agro without care. The healer gets frantic, and the lock thinks they're leet on the meter because they life tap and hellfire back and forth, while the healer isn't sure who needs more healing, the tank or the lock.

Had a run where I refused to continue until the lock stopped using it because it created agro issues and wipe concerns, after the lock died 3 pulls in a row. I was actually kicked from group! I don't think there is enough education out there about how dangerous not only this skill can be to the warlock, but about how terribad it is to use in dungeons and raids.

My biggest issues with it come from the lvl 30-50 range users. It needs to be redone, either reducing the agro produced, or damage reduced to make it less enticing to use as a main skill.

Comment by TMWL

This will rule in cataclysm against melee classes, As demo lock you can charge your enemy and use Immolation aura+hellfire with your dots and demon hurting the enemy. They can either remain in 8yards range and burn or run away and be unable to damage the lock and get nuked by spells. Ofcourse the enemy can interrupt your fire school, but then you are free to cast your shadow spells without fear of being interrupted. :)

Comment by themguyman

in cata all lock specs will have a specific AoE affliction will use SoC demo will use this (they will also get a talent to beable to move while casting it and it will no longer cause damage to you but thats no part of the talent) and destro will use RoF

Comment by Bakit

So far the tooltip still says it damages the user, and with the 64% base mana cost, it's still a hefty cost. I think Rain of Fire is still the best AoE choice outside of the nasty effect Soulburn + SoC can do when it detonates, that just seems nasty for Affliction Locks. I guess we'll have to wait and see if the tooltip changes before or at launch of Cata.

Comment by themguyman

i think the tool tip might be wrong cuz i believe that a blue post said that hellfire won't do damage to you anymore

Comment by walrock

Does still dmg to yourself on the PTR (Build 13162)

Comment by spore83

I dont think the damage is much of an issue.

Hellfire does negligible damage me right now, and im a destro lock in raiding gear.

Cant wait to cast hellfire while moving, though. Horde can kiss their auctioneers goodbye!

Comment by Seidoxu

Ok this hellfire,,

it still does damage to me ? and i have a glyph that i can walk with hellfire now.. but still does damage to me ?

how come ?

Comment by CryptFreak

For PVE, using demonology felguards felstorm combined with hellfire makes it easy for locks to take down groups of mobs.

Comment by Theye

Like fire! HELLFIRE! This fire in my skin...

Comment by cauliflower

I Think this is what the undead warlock in in the TBC cinematic does to kill those things following him. The spell may not be great, but the way he does it damn cool(or should i say, hot)

Comment by audiogarden21

Macro to turn Hellfire ON/OFF.

#showtooltip Hellfire
/cancelaura Hellfire
/cast Hellfire
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Just put it where you put your Hellfire button, and treat it exactly like you treat Hellfire, except if you use this macro while channeling Hellfire, it stops channeling.

Compliments of clavarnway on the Inferno comment section.

Comment by forrester

This spell is actually better than rain of fire specially for demonology warlocs.

Comment by martinyao

Just a quick question, as I would like to play back my warlock. :)

Does this stack with Immolation Aura from Metamorph?

Coz if it does, then it is doing a massive 889 (566 IA+ 319 HF) damage per second.

Considering both is a 15 secs channeling spell which receive 214% dmg from spellpower,
and if you have 5000 SP at level 85, then

885 + (5000 x 2.14 / 15)
= 1612 dps for 15 secs @ level 85 with 5000 SP.

Just need someone to do a theory craft for clarification. :)

Comment by hilltopperpete

You can take almost no damage from Hellfire by taking advantage of your and talents. Unfortunately, the ability to macro Shadow Ward is broken so you can't tie them together just yet. Hopefully 4.1 takes care of this.

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