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Banish

Banish

3% of base mana / 30 Demonic Fury	30 yd range

1.5 sec cast
Requires Warlock
Requires level 32

Banishes an enemy Demon, Aberration, or Elemental, preventing any action for 30 sec. Limit 1 target. Casting Banish again on the target will cancel the effect.

Buff

Banish	Magic

Invulnerable, but unable to act.
30 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

30 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

Banished

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

3% of base mana / 30 Demonic Fury

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

1.5 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Stun

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Immunity (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Healing Taken - % (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: -100%

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Comment by Moggh

"Only works on Demons and Elementals."
And druids, if they're in Tree Form :)

Comment by bangy

Unfortunately for mages, this works and is great against their Water Elemental (41-point talent from patch). Then they have a long 3 minute cooldown - don' t bother fighting it!

Comment by Wisemonkey

This is so much fun. I hope blizzard doesn't remove the ability to banish druid Trees.

I am currently attempting to determine if the banish only lasts 12 seconds since the patch. I know this is the case with fear, but..... yeah.

Comment by Truenos

This ability gives warlocks an incredibly important role in both Dire Maul West (there are tons of elementals there of all kinds) and in Molten Core (Garr's earth elementals). Don't let anyone tell you again that locks are summon/soulstone bots.

Comment by dreampod

A vital skill for several scripted boss encounters but fairly lackluster while leveling. Unless you are fighting lots of demon's and elementals, the chances of getting adds you can't handle and being able to get the 1.5 sec cast off is fairly low.

Comment by Aerowix

Also very good crowd control ability at higher lvls in Blackrock Depths. Those fiery elementals tend to hit high with pure fire damage. Also they are always paired with about 2 dwarves.

Comment by jinnerswow

Works against Warlock pets in PVP too!

Comment by frmorrison

This is an outstanding TBC spell. There are demons and elementals all over the place, so lots of places to CC.

This is ability is key in a few raiding areas, like Mag's Lair, he summons some demons that Warlocks must banish and CC or the raid dies.
The trash before Void Reaver has two demons per pack that that do nasty damage, but banish makes it a lot easier.

Comment by hollisbrown

Also good tool make gold farmers bot go nuts at elemental plateau :)

Comment by Reticeo

You can also do a nice "trick" if facing a hard demon/elemental encounter: Cast CoD on it, banish it, take a nice long break, remembering to re-banish when it runs out (but be sure to time it!) -- after 60 seconds, you'll want the target not to be banished, so that your CoD inflicts its nasty damage. Then proceed the fight as usually.

Useful against mobs that otherwise may not be soloable.

Comment by brahmaximus

This is useful in PvP, especially Arena, against a Resto Druid who is dumb enough to be in tree of life form.

Comment by Hotfusion

Very useful agains SL warlocks as banishing his pet negates the Soul Link for the duration of the banish giving you a window to nuke him down. As of "dunno which patch" the other pet synergies remain when the pet is banished but SL is still affected.
Keep in mind though that pets with high resistences will be hard to banish and keep banished.

Comment by Thae

This can be dispelled with Mass Dispel :)

*note: to clarify, an enemy's Banish on a friendly unit can be Mass Dispelled.

Comment by 1771

every CC is good.

Comment by RedwoodElf

Haven't tried it yet, but aren't Warlock pets all demons? Gotta try to banish the next Felguard sent after me...

Comment by Keys

I guess someone should mention that this now has a 6 second duration against pvp targets. It's unfortunate to see this spell lose a large amount of usefulness, but understanding why is easy.

When a demonology warlock uses Metamorphosis they also gain the weaknesses of a demon, meaning an enemy warlock could chain fear/banish for the full 30 second duration. With this recent change a warlock still has a lot of control over a transformed player, but at least now they can't keep them locked out completely.

Comment by Healerdude

a side note, threat is still accumulated while a target is banished. this means that if you banish a monster, then send either a VW or felguard at it, the monster will have huge threat with your pet and it will be very tough to pull aggro off of it.

Comment by silkfire

Curious fact: In patch 0.6 (beta of the game), Banish had a 30 min cooldown! Can you imagine that?

Comment by DELProtolif

Some mobs, such as Blackrock Shadowcaster, can banish humanoids and even beasts. I don't know if it's a bug or what, but its very annoying.

Comment by Eostare

I'm so glad that we can "un-banish" our own targets by simply recasting this spell now, allowing us to effectively CC numerous mob types through both this spell and Fear.

Comment by Korr

Works now against aberrations, a new mob class consisting of sha, fleshbeasts, old god monstrosities, and anything from your nightmares.

Comment by Daherado

Can anyone confirm what exactly is classed as an Aberration? I know what elementals and demons are yet i dont think ive encountered an Aberration in game yet. =S

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