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Lichborne

Lichborne

Instant	2 min cooldown

Requires Death Knight
Requires level 57

Draw upon unholy energy to increase Leech by 10%, and make you immune to Charm, Fear, and Sleep for 10 sec.

Buff

Lichborne

Leech increased by 10% and immune to Charm, Fear and Sleep. Undead.
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

2 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Leech %
Value: 10%

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Charmed)
Value: 1

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Fleeing)

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Asleep)

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Turned)

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Warlords of Draenor Death
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Comments

Comment by macke

then hes counted as a undead and can be feared by a paladin?

Comment by iBeastMastery

This will be awkward, if an Undead death knight uses it...will there be any change? Or will the mobs think "Hey...he stayed the same...weird"

Comment by d3nyd

I'd assume you'll be vulnerable to Shackle, Turn Evil, etc while using this, since you'll be immune to the other CC. Just make sure you don't fight a Holy Paladin when using this skill. Yikes.

Comment by TheWicked22

Down-rate this.

Comment by Oblivion537

technically turn undead compells them to flee instead of running in fear (same thing just different wording in spell text) wonder if this has nething to do with it.

Comment by TheWicked22

See, I looked at both Turn Evil and Fear and saw that the both used:

: Mod Fear

I didn't even notice that they had seperate mechanics. Down-rate my post please.

Comment by kingfat44

Does anyone know if you can use Lichborne then heal yourself with Death Coil??? maybe???

Comment by NickNite

because the tool tip says undead it would only make sense that the DK will become vulnerable to a Paladin and Priest, as these are the premier anti-undead classes in game. Plus with all the lore, paladins and priest are essentially anti-death knights. this is a talented skill which basically makes the DK like a warrior. if the DK can use his anti-magic shell while in this form, it would greatly mitigate any paladin-specific spells (holy wrath, exorcism), while still being able to be effectively controlled by another class, hopefully keeping the "omg that's OP" complaining to a minimum.

Comment by blah17

Yeah, as far as I can tell theres no reason why abilities specificaly for undead would not work against someone under this effect.

Just like how druids are subject to beast-specific things when shape-shifted.

Comment by Isoro

If you get shackeled, you can click the buff (Lichborne) away but it will not cancel the shackle already cast on you. Simply don't use this when fighting a priest or paladin, and save yourself using a CD only to click it away for no real obvious reason.

Comment by YoKs

You can heal yourself with Death Coil then undear effect of Lichborn, what makes this ability very powerfull.

Comment by foki

now it's put in the frost(tanking) tree and i guess it makes more senses in a way as it will probably find more applications in pve than pvp(unholy tree) that is.Still it makes me die a little more inside as a pvp aficionado and i still hope that blizz will find a way to counter ranged classes(especially lock) kiting methods.

Comment by Stunned

Can you activate this ability WHILE feared, charmed or asleep? If so, undead death knights would be slightly overpowered with this and WotF........any ideas?

Comment by faia

anti.-non -undead cc....30% miss rate added against you......you can heal you self with death coil...yeah this is powerful

Comment by DancingZombies

If I'm not mistaken, I believe the Death Coil talent already says you can heal yourself and other Death Knights, regardless of whether you are undead or not.

Comment by elyzium

Ret paladins have dot now when they crit with their Judgement and Divine Storm that may break Turn Evil spell if you get cough in it during Lichborne.
The chances are low that it break from one dot but it's better then nothing :P

Lichborne + Glyph of Death's Embrace + Full RP bar = 5x Death Coil heals ^^ (only recommended against non-Paladin/Priest)

Comment by Swarogh

While the Lichborne effect is active the DK may be Turned Evil and Shackled

Comment by shouji

Something that wasn't mentioned but quite important to me: Does it break fear if I couldn't use it in time? It says you get immune, but is it usuable when feared?

Comment by DrPancake

I popped Lichborn against Ret Pallies just to lure them to use Turn Evil so that I can lock them out of all their spells. It was very effective.

And then I met a ret pally that had Glyph of Turn Evil :(

Comment by hypehuman

Nobody's really commented on the lore aspect of this talent. How do you "become undead for 15 sec"? Don't you have to die and be resurrected as a ghoul or something? And how do you become living again once it's over? It's a cool talent, but when you think about it, it doesn't really make sense. Of course, this is a game with magic and whatnot, but this seems not to work even within the lore of the game. A Death Knight is not undead.

Comment by Archael

Rofl...seeing as how the damn ret paladin are so tough i'd say Turn evil are the least of your worries...once it finishes you could do worse than to just keep running..unless of course you're actually trying to kill them. If that is the case then just make a cancelaura macro similar to what paladin have used forever to wipe curses. bubble cancel buble.... Lichborne cancel lichborn works just the same.. Or even an elaborate
/castsequence target=self Lichborne, deathcoil
/cancelaura lichborne

or something to that matter. I went blood so this spell doesn't apply to me but it's simple game mechanics and you can easily use it to your advantage no matter how terrifying it might look at the getgo.

Comment by theakismaniac

Lichborne works just like the old WotF, except lasts 3x as long (15sec vs 5sec), definitely a prime choice in pvp specs if you can spare points

it DOES break fear/charm/sleep when you are affected by them so its amazing in any DK vs warlock fights, tested this already in some duels

and you are considered undead, so deathcoil heals (you need to macro it or manually target yourself for the spell), you can also be shackled and affected by those crazy paladin anti-undead spells... kind of a tossup vs priests, you will get by the fear but if they are smart they will just CC you until the effect is over, so be careful

Comment by zzAurora

I'm not really sure WHY Turn Evil work's against this talent, it's daft really.

'While undead, you are immune to Charm, Fear and Sleep effects'.

Must be another case of exemption like the Paladin's Immunity of Divine Shield vs a Priests Mass Dispel.

Comment by Wisdomsword

Death Coil Can now heal you :) when your using this spell.

Comment by Groundlord

Groundlord, your average typical nubadin.

Game mechanics or not, it's just poorly designed.
First of all, smartass, you've never seen me play the game, so you can't judge whether I'm a noob or not just by my posts on Wowhead.

Second, there's a difference between a living creature running in fear (Fear mechanic) and an Undead creature running from Holy energy (Turn Evil mechanic):
Something that runs in fear is intimidated, and it's afraid of dying or bodily harm (Undead, not having the same senses as the living, have no reason to fear death or pain).
Undead running from Holy energy are doing so because they know that it's going to *!@# them up big-time. Ever seen what happens to a Vampire that gets splashed with Holy Water?

Comment by Pariahdark

For the longest I was hoping this would turn you into a Lich, but that would be considered unfair to all the other classes.(this was before Wotlk came out) Very nice Tank usage.

Comment by Shadownoob

With fairly decent gear, and trinkets with avoidance on uses, it is possible to have complete avoidance using this for 15 seconds. Just something to keep in mind/macro, as it's saved my ass before (plus it's a lot of fun when soloing heroics/old raids).

Comment by Gnaeus

The least they can do with that change is lower its cooldown to 2 mins or something....

Comment by Stunned

This is the only way a member of the Forsaken can get their old Will of the Forsaken back.

I assume it also shares a cooldown with the racial?

Comment by EvilElpay

Death knight attacks Warlock.
Warlock fears Death Knight.
Death Knight casts Lichborne, breaks fear, and becomes immune to fear.
Holy Paladin casts Turn Undead on Death Knight.
Death Knight ponders his own actions.

Turns out that turn evil has been changed from a fear effect to a turn effect, and what 5v5 team doesn't have a pally right now?

Comment by dunkeldk

Lichborne is

off the GCD
a good way to get that priest or warlock down quickly without having him mess you up with his aoe fear

But as many have mentioned it makes you vulnerable to Priesty shackle, Paladin Turn Evil and of course Exorcism.
To me, Lichborne is a nice pvp skill I usually can find a point to spend in, I would not recommend using it against any kind of paladins (I'm intentionally leaving priests out here because 1. Shackle has an interruptable cast and 2. Most priests dont have that ready in pvp). It is indeed very useful to finish off a foe or just make it easier to heal yourself up... After all, it's just one talent point :P

Comment by Sonofspree

No, you will stil be turned. You can however cancel it before Turn Evil is cast to cause it to fizzle, but once you're turned you're turned for the duration.

Comment by Naveh

u can fear the Lichborne DK with the Warlock Death Coil.

Comment by Vehemence

Small visual :

There are worms/maggots/something slithering at the your feet when you have activated Lichborne.

Comment by ryknow69

Doesn't require you to not be charmed/feared/sleeped, can even be casted when Stunned.

Comment by Arsath

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this spell (or at one point in the past) also cause incoming attacks to miss by 25%?

I'm sorry, but..

Please, read the goddamn comments.

Comment by Bryrida

I think Will of the Forsaken should be like this, makes you count as "Undead" which makes you immune to fear/charm/sleep but also makes you vunlerable to Paladins and Priests... Might still be overpowered for a racial but would be awesome, maybe they could buff other racials aswell to balance it out (Stoneform making you immune to disease/poison/bleed again).

Comment by Xebenatros

Besides Lichborne's use for PVP, is the spell helpful during heroics & raids, or are Death Knights when using Lichborne still affected by spells from Paladins or Priests when fighting together?

Comment by zsofia

use against locks. not priests or pallies :)

Comment by Quest

This spell coupled with deathcoil basically gives a DK a LoH ability with a 2 min cooldown that takes up 6GCDs to 'cast'. When glyphed of course.

My level 64 DK with under 7k health can self heal for 25k in that 10 second span.

Comment by Drain7

Very good to use vs enemies that will fear you. You do become Undead which means Paladins would own you, but you shouldn't be firing this vs a Paladin anyway, as there is no reason to. This is an ability to blow vs Locks and Priests(Immunity to seduction+Fear). You could be hit with Shackle Undead after wards, but if he's already put dots on you, he'd just break his own CC.

Sad part is the graphic. Instead of giving us an awesome looking Undead model during the duration(Like Noggerfogger but with armor), they instead just put a stupid head over us. It's a lazy cop out. Total lack of effort there. You don't "feel" like an Undead when you look exactly the same except for a hovering skull over you. It should turn you into a damn Skeleton for the duration.

Comment by Czrbonium

Talent Analysis
Charm, Fear and Sleep effects constitute effects which elicit the loss of control of your character (not including stuns and horrors). Immunity to these is obviously a boon. The effect of becoming undead is two-fold: firstly, it allows you to use Death Coil to heal yourself. However, it also makes you susceptible to damage and crowd control centered around the undead, so be cautious.

In soloing, this can provide an avenue of healing for DKs, though you would probably opt for a Death Strike in preference, especially when glyphed. In Raiding and Dungeoneering, a DK tank may some use as a self-heal opportunity with DC, or as a pre-emptive to mitigatable crowd control. PvP DKs will see use of this as a prophylaxis for many crowd-control methods, and an opportunity to heal oneself on the fly.

My talent analyses are always able to be edited if people believe I've missed, or wrongly included something as significant.

Comment by asakawa

Lichborne in PvP prevents:

Sap
Polymorph
Hex

It prevents and also breaks:

Seduce
Fear
Mind Control

Comment by Sarenox

While undead will they receive other undead racials such as the underwater breathing?

Edit:I tried it today with a DK i made and it appears that you don't get longer underwater breathing.

Comment by lulitsian

This doesn't make you vulnerable to Control Undead. It'd be pretty useful if it did, though. :P Enslaving members of your own class who (for whatever reason) use this against you would be pretty interesting.

Comment by Xiberion

So many times I use this spell just to target myself with death coil to receive invalid target errors ._.

Comment by Rumbuddy

An a) Forsaken b) death knight using c) Lichborne, is like dividing by 0 three times in a row.

Comment by MrWilliams92

Lichborne Healing Macro !
Want to heal without changing targets ? Simple enter EXACTLY whats typed below !

/cast lichborne
/cast Anti-Magic Shell
/cast Death Coil

This Macro will cast Lichborne, Anti-Magic Shell, and Death Coil at the same time, causing it to heal yourself WITHOUT changing from your current target. Continue to hit this mac until your out of runic power or until your full health.

Tips: Make sure you have enough runic power to set up the perfect time use this wonderful mac. Spamming this macro while kiting the target is the best way to survive! Unholy Death Knights will ALWAYS be healed more from this marco!
Glyph of Death's Embrace will help you conserve runic power, causing you to heal more and boosting survivability!

Hope i have help all you Death Knights out there !

Comment by Kuchiro

A nice macro in bgs

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast Lichborne
/cast Death Coil
/yell DEATH COIL ME NOW!

Comment by laduka49

Does it works "Death Coil" and this spell on Wotkl?

Comment by idhauntthat

Oh cool! Immune to many forms of CC and heals yourself with deathcoil!...Oh...what's this....'school: shadow'?

Meaning?...*****It can be dispelled*****...goddamnit...

Time to get Purgatory or Anti-magic zone, which can't be dispelled, although they can be rendered useless through other...less easy...means...

Comment by Caztaneda

Here´s a mcro that will pop Lichborne and cast Death Coil on yourself. Without deselecting your current target.

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast !Lichborne;
/cast Death Coil

Comment by Everliving14

6.0 changes to this talent:
Lichborne makes you immune to Fear, Sleep, and Charm effects, and grants you an additional +10% Leech for 10 seconds.

(Note that it is not supposed to make you undead, as it did pre-6.0).

However, as of 6.0.3, Lichborne still turns you undead, and thus allows Death Coil to heal you. It is unsure whether this is intended.

Comment by Superchief

For those worried about frost losing the deathcoil+lichborne self-heal combo in Draenor just remember that it's based on runic power. Runic power is limited, and lets be realistic here, especially in pvp. It would be wiser, even as unholy, to SAVE lichborne for a casting polymorph or hex or break a CC, rather than using it as a self heal and draining runic power. For both PvE and PvP it would be wiser to dump runic power into Conversion (10 RP per second as frost), which can go well beyond 20% HP if you start it at full RP and continue to build more RP while it's active. No cooldown even when it's finished. This means infinite health, as long as you can counter CCs... which ties right back into saving lichborne for when it's needed most.

If you compare this to Bloodthirst with fury warriors they have it MUCH worse. A glyphed AND talented bloodthirst takes it off the global cooldown and allows for a 2% heal, if spammed constantly in melee (without howling blast remember?) it works... except during CC unlikeConversion, and it doesn't do any damage. Rogues have leeching poison, which they have to sacrifice for other poisons and is again only melee range, proc based, and doesn't heal them through stuns. Ret paladins have to hard cast, or talent an instant flash of light proc, or strait trade dps for healing with holy power, so they lose as well.

The only other melee classes that match up to DK would be enhancement shaman, and feral druid.

Comment by Nimaasus

When it says "Leech increased by 10%," what is "Leech?" The spell details on this page says Lichborne has the effect "Apply Aura: Mod Leech %," but I can't seem to find the spell "Leech" that it modifies.

The WoWhead class page, Death Knight, doesn't list a DK ability called "Leech," only the talent Plague Leech, which doesn't seem relevant.

There's a page for a spell called Leech, which seems to be on the right track, but there is no indication how it works. Is it a baseline DK spell? Or is it one that varies by spec? Or is it triggered as well as modified by Lichborne?

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