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Howl of Terror

Howl of Terror

Instant	40 sec cooldown

Requires Warlock
Requires level 30

Your howl causes 5 enemies within 10 yds to flee in fear, disorienting them for 20 sec. Damage may cancel the effect.

Being hit by a damaging attack reduces your cooldown on Howl of Terror by 1 sec.

Buff

Howl of Terror	Magic

Disoriented.
20 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

20 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

Fleeing

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

40 seconds

GCD

1.5 seconds

Max targets

5 - Default

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Loss of Control
Value: 1
Radius: 10 yards

Effect #2

Trigger Spell

	Spell #112891

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Run Speed Limit %
Value: 7%
Radius: 10 yards

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Comments

Comment by Mysticllyr

This is undoubtedly one of the best skills to add talent points to if you PvP. Nowadays, locks are getting smashed up pretty bad, and if you've got any more than one person on you, this spell is near useless with a casting time. But nothing's nicer than shooing those 3 rogues away in that quarter of a second between their stuns. Saved my life more times than I can count.

Comment by raventears

With enough talent points into the affliction tree, this is now an instant cast, which is great to have when you're in certain situations when you're surrounded in PvP or PvE.

There is still a 3 second cooldown to it.

Comment by kadjii

Is there any armor that can reduce the cool down of this? I thought I saw something once, but now i cant find it...

Comment by Satarus

This can be made instant cast with talents. Very usefull for PvP depending on your play style.

Comment by Sistarose

I find it PvP, you can be stunned or down on the ground before it goes off. Unless you sneak up from behind. Where it really pays off is when you are handling too many mobs, as it gives you breathing space to summon, heal or just run for it. It is also just shear fun, dot everyone then watch them run.

Comment by Nerobyrne

One thing that is very good about this spell is that it is Terror, not fear. This means that undead cannot dispell it with their racial buff.
Nice in PvP.

It is also the only true HoT......lol

Comment by Temes

Does this share DR with Fear?

Comment by Groundlord

This spell only gets useful in PvP if you put the points into Improved Howl of Terror; otherwise it's the only AoE Fear that has a casting time (albeit with a shorter cooldown).

Comment by Papillonnyu

No this skill does not share dr with regular fear (the 1 you cast at 1 target) but it shares de with priest fear so this AOE fear should share dr only with AOE fears like intimidating shout and pshychic scream but this ability is very useful if you think like this you cast fear on a pvp target (considering he has no way of removing it and your dots dont break it) he will be feared for 10 seconds then you cast another fear that will last 5 secconds then you will need 15secons to reset the dr on your fear so you wait till he gets near you death coil him them wait he get near you again use howl of terror and when he breaks free from it the dr on your regular fear willl be clear and you can cast a 10 second fear skill again =) in pvp situations its icing on the cake

Comment by OpticalRofl

Now there is something that can reduce the CD of this baby
It's magic ;P
to many players it may seem as not that much but believe me,the lower the CD the better chances to escape another bad situation

Edited for spelling

Comment by kylex3

the only spell i've found that afflicted 2 won't track.. odd.

Comment by Tariele

I just got this spell at level 40. It seems pretty good imo. She looks like she's doing a battle shout *grins*

My question would be when would it be most effective to cast this in a rotation?

Along with initial dots like CoA and Corruption? Or towards the end?

Comment by Ghaara

Even without a Improved Howl of Terror, it is very useful.
Combine it with Haste bonus equipment.

Comment by Ganbantein

With the talent Improved Howl of Terror in the affliction tree, 2 points will reduce the cast time of this skill by 2 seconds. but as you can see the base cast time is 1.5 seconds.
is it viable for PvP to keep this at 1 point or just take the full 2 points?
or is it just an error on tooltip?

Comment by eadgbe

seems like this gets ignored whenever i cast it... rarely see anyone affected by it... that is to say, when im able to cast it, usually i get murdered before it gets cast because as you all know, warlocks have the poorest survivability in pvp out of any class.

but hey, blizzard is giving us transmogrification next patch, so that should stop us all for worrying about silly things like bugs and pvp imbalance and poor talent tree design, right?

Comment by Namikaza

Howl of Terror can be Talented in the Affliction tree to reduce the cast time, the first point reduces it by 0.8 secs the second reduces it by 2 seconds making it a instant cast (Overkill by 0.5s). It can also be glyphed to reduce the cooldown by 8 seconds making the cooldown 32 seconds.

This ability is almost necessary for Afflic pvp locks. Also called a "Fear bomb".

Comment by bithalver

From 5.0.4, this spell could be learned for every warlock, as it is one of the 3 choices for the 2nd tier (lvl 30) talents; previously it was affliction-only.

It is nice the developers changed this spell to instant, also the CD reducing for every hit will make it more likely to be ready when needed.

AFAIK this spell is unfotunatelly not affected by Glyph of Fear.

Comment by cryniac

Casting this spell will trigger the wing animation on Hood of the Malefic

Comment by wotscheints

Just noticed the cooldown reduce for this talent (as of 5.4.x): "When hit by a damaging attack, the cooldown on Howl of Terror is reduced by 1 sec.". How often / frequently can the cooldown be reduced?
Melees have no cast times and therefore hit more often than casters (a dot tick is not a damaging attack!).
A melee can hit 1 time per second (global CD). Plus auto hits (which hit about every 2-3 seconds depending on class). That said, the lock should be able to reduce the CD to about 20-25 seconds. But how is this in rated BGs where a lock can be the target of up to 7 players in a team fight (most comps have 3 healers)?
I am assuming the CD reduce can only occur once a second, but don't see this in the tooltip and would like to get clarification.

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