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Mortal Coil

Mortal Coil
30 yd range

Instant	45 sec cooldown

Requires Warlock
Requires level 30

Horrifies an enemy target into fleeing, incapacitating them for 3 sec, and restores 11% of the caster's maximum health.

Buff

Mortal Coil	Magic

Incapacitated.
3 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

3 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

Horrified

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Loss of Control
Mechanic: Horrified

Effect #2

Dummy
Server-side script

Effect #3

Trigger Missile (Mortal Coil)
Value: 15

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Run Speed Limit %
Value: 7%

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted

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Warlock DPS Guide

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Comments

Comment by kadjii

41 levels without it... How did I survive?

Comment by kadjii

Nerfed! Used to be 470 damage for 565 mana. Can't say it wasnt well-deserved tho.

Comment by Truenos

Death Coil is a great way to start out a 1 vs. 1 pvp battle or a duel. Damage isn't a concern in this case - the main purpose is to have the 3 extra seconds to cast off a fear without being interrupted, cast off a shadowbolt, or throw out a couple of DOTS. Especially nice to hit up an unexpecting warrior to eliminate the chance that you'll be charged or intercepted.

Also, this spell is nice to cast midbattle if health gets low. 400+ damage to your opponent and the same health returned to you is always a bonus. Casting this can also delay pesky healers from recharging in the heat of battle.

Comment by rays

It is my experience that Death Coil is more effectively used as a means to get some breathing room or to interrupt a spell, rather than as an opener. If you use it as soon as possible, you literally have no defense after that warrior breaks the fear effect and intercepts/hamstrings/pummels you. Plus, using it at the beginning means that you won't get the 400 hp returned.

Comment by drbasic

Regarding the Deathcoil comment:

That sounds good but do not forget your Felhunter :)

1. When fighting an enemy, it can eat one of the enemys buffs and gain it's health back when it does.

2. It's defense is almost as high as voidwalkers, and it's attack is almost as much as the succubus.

3. DM effect: increases resistances to all schools of magic.

4. It has a buff that makes it so when it is hit with a melee attack the attacker loses 17 attack power for 10 seconds and stacks up to 5 times.

5. It has a spell that interupts the spell bieng cast, and disables all spells in that school for a short while. (only useable on enemys).

Good Little Script to have on your action bar :)
/target <your name>
/cast Devour magic
/script TargetLastTarget()

Comment by KainXavier

I would be apt to agree with Ray. Using DC as an opener is just a poor choice in most situations. If saved, it can used as a disrupt/silence on healers or a way to get a warrior/rogue off you after you fear them and they pop out of it.

This is espeically true of Affliction 'locks. I could see it possibly being used by Destruction 'locks as they might be able nuke them quickly enough.

Comment by Nate

Yes this amazing skill will save warlocks and get them out off tough situations. Also great for catching someone who is running away, if the they fear back to you that is. haha

Comment by Dunnizzle

Is the damage done a DoT or instant damage?

Comment by webtekkie

Keep in mind that death coil is a "horror" effect and not a fear-based effect. Therefore, anti-fear trinkets and class abilities cannot be used to get rid of it. Usually if you are death coiled, expect a fear to follow right after. 3 seconds is plenty of time to cast a nice bolt, run for position, or fear.

Comment by frmorrison

In 2.1, this spell will have DR with itself. That means 2 or more Warlocks cannot chain death coil one target.

Comment by Zeneva

This totally sucks now at 2.1...

People used to do arena with 5 locks or so..All chain death coil per guy and died instantly lol..but now...Diminishing Return is on this now..gees

Comment by Jamzo

This got nerfed? whasnt it "gains 120% of the damage caused in health" before?

Comment by andyf

Death Coil 'horror' effect will be dispellable with the revised PVP trinkets
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=108238572&pageNo=2&sid=1#27

Comment by Saiko

Apply Aura: Mod Fear ...

Comment by Sistarose

This is great for dismounting opponents . If they still want to stay on their horse when fear hits, DoT the heck out of them.

Comment by meflak

Originally Death Coil was a 10 Minute Cool down Heal for warlocks, and At max rank did barely 500 Healing.

Currently Death Coil is a fear for warlocks, It is designed primarily as an escape method for when a class gets in close such as a warrior, rogue, Feral Druid and such.

The Spell is a Horrify effect and is on its own diminishing returns away from Fear, Howl of Terror and Seduce. Unfortunately many warlocks use this spell as an opener, causing an opportunity in the beginning of a fight but ultimately not taking advantage of the spells abilities to escape from a bad situation.

This Spell can Crit, and Miss just like any other spell.

Comment by Fizzleboy

Wow, instant damage, healing and fear .. Warriors berserker rage wont work on this spell

Comment by helmers

You could compare it to Holy shock (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=33072), except that this costs ~150 mana more, does both heal and damage, and causes the enemy to flee. And there's a cooldown involved.

Comment by Fizzleboy

When target is shielded with some kind of "absorb shield", and absorb all your damage of your Death Coil, you will gain no HP..

Comment by Fizzleboy

Notice that it says "horrify" and not "fear"
So if you have anything that removes fear, like Berserker Rage, it wont work on this spell

Comment by Fizzleboy

helmers, you can't compare holy shock to Death coil. Only that it's a spec:
1. holy shock has 15 sec cd, Death Coil have 2 min.
2. Death coil heals, do damage, and fear, and holy shock do damage OR heals

Comment by Fizzleboy

Oops I mean spell*

Comment by ZealotTheAloof

With improved howl of terror talent you can start a fight with howl of terror. If they trinket, use death coil followed by fear and traditional affliction warlock procedures.

Comment by Timmytiptoes

This is a useful CD for any Warlock; it can turn the tide of a fight.

Since it's an instant cast, it gains 42.86% of your +dmg. It can't crit, it can't be dispelled by fear dispels because it's a horror effect, it's affected by Fel Armor, etc.

Comment by thelauri

This is good spell you can use this if some one is immune to fear its make he/she run in fear but its not fear its horror :)

Comment by Kelannice

A warlock's best friend, an instant cast single horror spell that heals and damages

Does not count as a fear - Warriors think their immune to your fear? BOOM Death Coil.
cannot be dispelled - Meaning you get 3 seconds of free time, you can reaplly your dots, heal w/e
Use for Emergencies ONLY! - It has a 2 minute cooldown for a reason, save it for emergencies, when you or an ally is about to die because you can easily get a fear off on them before it runs out.

Comment by noxowow

heals the caster , deals damage to the target and gives this fear effect that can't be dispelled ....wtf u want more...?!?!!? thats why i hate warlocks

Comment by danielsjoberg14

whats the highest dmg anyone has done with this?

Comment by Beregorn

You may want to make a macro for this spell:

#showtooltip
/cast Death coil
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\\\Creature\\\\HoodWolf\\\\HoodWolfTransformPlayer01.wav")

This simply adds a voice-over from the opera wolf event: "Run away little girl, run away... moahaha"

:)

Comment by dogorafael

Man, where I found this wavs?
to make others macros....
I realy like this sound.. hehehe

Comment by Shinnoki

Mostly meant for emergencies, but it's also very good against mounted runners.

Comment by zolikk

Now that DK's also have a Death Coil spell, will the ability name be changed, or will it just stay the same?

Comment by Kazzaking

for some reason when you pull Vandar with deathcoil in AV it heals for 50k but when just used normally it heals for the normal amount. Does even more if you shadowbolt before it *deathcoil flys through the air faster.

Comment by cedricm

I'm having a hard time using death coil since I think 2.4 or 3.02.
Is this me or have the other classes abilities that make it fail on a regular basis?

Comment by cedricm

By the way I am a (warlock) PVE player, I'm not that interested in PVP but I'm terrible at it and I would like to learn if there is anything one can do when attacked in the back when fighting other monsters.

In this situation I most of the time die within 2-4 seconds whereas I hardly ever die in PVE.

Before I kind of learned to use deathcoil to increase survival a few percentage points but somehow I'm not having much success lately.

Any tutorial / video for pvp noobs like me would be very welcome.

Comment by Shigy

Did they change death coil with the patch? or is this part of the new class stuff?

Comment by Belse

In patch 3.1.2 death coil will heal you for 300% of the damage caused

Comment by amounirl

I just got this on my lock, and it's nothing short of amazing! Great for when that rogue jumps you and gets you to half health =D.

Comment by zolikk

Many Warlocks that I fight tend to use this very soon as an interrupt. Bad idea for all that healing wasted.

Comment by Aikidude

Even though this skill functions the same as a fear effect, it's not a fear effect. This mean you can target undead with it in PvP, as "horrified" is not included in Will of the Forsaken. However, in PvE most mobs immune to fear are immune to horrified as well.

Comment by tiss

@zolikk

If you don't cast deathcoil and let them get the spell off, they would damage you for more than death coil heals. In my opinion, this is more useful as instant fear.

Comment by Qariz

Heals for around 1000, at lvl 42 with Demon Armor on yourself.

Comment by wrladorkcrak

Comment by gizmovision

This will also heal your 'pet'. Like a Mend Pet does for hunters.

Comment by Downrated

Sadly, if you use this spell close to a large drop, the person who is running around in horror will not run over the edge :(.
Instead, when they reach the edge of the cliff, they will change direction.

Comment by gizmovision

I'm sorry I was using this as the death knight version of Death Coil same name problems sorry :/

This will also heal your 'pet'. Like a Mend Pet does for hunters.

Comment by dylanraga

Fear:
Cost 12% of base mana
Range 20 yards (Short)
Cast time 1.5 seconds
Cooldown n/a
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Mod Fear
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Mod Speed

Death Coil:
Duration 3 seconds
School Shadow
Mechanic n/a
Dispel type Magic
Cost 23% of base mana
Range 30 yards (Medium)
Cast time Instant
Cooldown 2 minutes
Effect #1 Health Leech
Value: 790
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Mod Fear

Comment by dreadblood

funnily enough,http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=6789 uses the same animation as http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=49892 but with a cast animation insead of the little "hitting" animation

Comment by nickthegrrr

The cooldown for this spell is reduced by 18 seconds using this 5 piece set bonus for the Zul'Gurub set.

Comment by Beregorn

Comment by Chickenspine

wow the lvl 85 version returns 300% health back!
common Cataclysm

Comment by Vehemence

Death Coil.

The harbinger of all your tears since 04' TM.

Comment by menace97

Mortal Coil (talent) has replaced the old Warlock spell Death Coil.

Comment by Mikemcnik

It will heal, even if the target is immune to the horror.

Comment by joonjoon819

Currently Mortal Coil doesn't heal me if the target is immune to horror. Is this a bug?

Comment by Kanariya

This received a stealth nerf with 6.0 and will no longer heal the caster if the target cannot be horrified. This is no longer a viable raid talent.

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