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Comment by 767548

This spell seems like it could be very useful for both pvp and pve. I have a few questions about how it works, though.

Scenario 1:
I create the two gateway locations. The party waits 30 seconds after the gateway is created. One person travels through the gateway from Location A to Location B, presumably because of a fight mechanic, and then comes back through Location B to Location A. Does this mean that there are now 0 charges left on the portal? Or does each location still have one remaining charge?

The answer is that once a person travels through a gateway, they cannot travel again for another 15 seconds, so by the time they are able to travel a new charge will be on the gateway.

Scenario 2:
I create the two gateway locations. The party waits 45 seconds after the second gateway location is set. Three people travel from Location A to Location B. If another 45 seconds pass, could 3 more people travel from Location A to Location B? Does the 5 charge limit mean that only 5 charges will be created regardless of when they are used? Or will the gateway keep generating charges up to a maximum of 5 for its duration?

Yes, the gatway will keep generating new charges for as long as it exists, up to a maximum of 5.

Scenario 3:
I create two gateway locations. If I move too far away from the locations, will the gateway disappear? Or will it remain for its full duration as long as I stay alive and in the same instance?

Yes. I'm not certain what the range is, but it appears to be <= 100 yards. It is possible for one gateway to vanish, while the other one stays if you're still in range.

Scenario 4:
I create the two gateway locations. Then I move out of range of one of the gateways and it disappears. Can I still travel through the remaining gateway?

If the gateway that spawns at the player location is still up, yes. It will take you to the other gateways location, even though it no longer exists. If the gateway at the target location is the only one remaining, it will not work.

Scenario 5:
I create two gateway locations. Does the portal generate its first charge immediately? Or is the first charge generated after 15 seconds have passed?

The gateway does not come with a charge at first, so you have to wait 15 seconds for the first charge.

Comment by 165543

Now you are thinking with portals.

Comment by Gulfos

Cool spell. Will be useful in many situations... like avoiding fire on the floor.

Please, do not destroy Vital Testing Apparatus!

Comment by Bellsdaddy2010

Spell will have to be with in range of the orginal location up to 70 yards as posted im sure and you would have to be partied and and stay with in the peramters of the spell its self i believe im just speculating but thats what most the locks spells are so people cant abuse the system

Comment by Prasiatko

I wonder how many locks will it take to create a chain through entire WSG...

Comment by Toldry

Combined with Demonic Circle: Teleport this could make Warlocks as hard to catch as a roadrunner

Comment by clavarnway

The way I believe it will work is as follows.

The Warlock casts Demonic Gateway (DG) at point A. He then casts it at Point B. Now we have a fully functioning DG. It spawns with 5 charges.

A player grouped with the Warlock walks into Point A or Point B. They are instantly teleported to the other end point of the DG, using up a charge on the DG. The DG now has 4 charges left.

15 seconds later, the DG gains a charge, bringing it back up to 5.

If nobody uses it for another 15 seconds, nothing changes, due to the limit of 5 charges.

If 2 people use it, it drops to 3 charges. I don't see a restriction on time between uses, so this should be fine.

15 seconds later, if a 3rd person uses it, it will drop to 2 charges, then gain a charge, due to the 15 second interval between charge gains, bringing it back up to 3 charges.

This is all based on the assumption it spawns with 5 charges. If it spawns with 0, then all the above behavior is true, it will just take a while longer to get going.

Personally I hope the ground graphic around the DG has 5 little Demonic-looking marks around the outside, that are filled in when you have charges, and not filled it when you don't. That would give an in-game, elegant way of seeing how many charges are on it.

Comment by 913677

Wonder what the portal model will look like.
PLEASE Blizzard don't make it look like a Ritual of Summoning Portal.

EDIT: Blizzard answered my prayers! The model is unique and awesome!
So here is how it works:
You start casting the spell at a location (From 20-70yd) and it summons two portals (one at your location and one at the targeted location).
The portal will regenerate charges every 15 seconds, with the maximum of 5 charges. When you click on the portal it will send you to the second portal, but consume one charge.
Simple as that.

Comment by 325248

Does the yd range mean that the two connecting portals can only be maximum 70 yards away from each other?

Comment by Misy

I'm going Blade's Edge Arena with this one and the previous portal and teleport too! Try and catch me! Of course you have to find me fist....

Comment by Gnomeypriest

This along with our normal Demonic Circle: Teleport, Burning Rush and health regen abilities like Dark Regeneration, Create Healthstone (+ glyphed for Glyph of Healthstone) Warlocks are gonna be insanely hard to catch.

Comment by 860132

Seems to be working on non-party members as well. Someone placed it in the AH and bank doorways, and as you tried to enter one, you'd end up in the other...

They should probably fix that :P

Comment by 966344

You know they should add a random chance to spawn a demon through it under the warlock's control for 10 seconds can stack to maximum of 3 demons and has something passive you know like increases nearby party members haste rating by a staggering 1%. Demons spawned attack the target of your active demon, if no demon is active it will attack your target. Am i dreaming or am i maybe predicting the future.
I guess i am dreaming as such a glyph would be MADNESSSSS

Comment by guatafu

If mage is the CC caster, warlock is the support caster now.

Comment by guatafu

I like how the charges are large and easy to see (the green/purple orbs represent a charge). I have a question, are pets teleported along with their master?

Comment by N1ppe

Model for this gateway can be found here.

Looks pretty damn sweet :D

Comment by Maleficious

Some interesting tidbits about this spell.

If your pet is standing still when you enter a Gateway, he/she/it will be teleported with you, otherwise, he/she/it will be forced to run after you instead.

Going through a Gateway interrupts channeled spells, even ones that can be channeled whilst moving (e.g. Hellfire).

Whilst teleporting between Gateways, the skybox for the zone you're currently in will be replaced by the skybox from Shadowmoon Valley.

Jumping through (and further passed) a Gateway using Demonic Leap will cause your teleport to have a slight delay.

Each Gateway has a leash of 100 yards from you, moving outside of this radius causes any out-of-bounds Gateways to despawn, if one Gateway is despawned in this manner, the second Gateway will continue to function, but will no longer regenerate charges. When used without a companion Gateway, you will be teleported to wherever the companion Gateway was before it despawned. The Gateway's remaining visual charge indicators will not disappear with each teleport, but the gateway will still lose charges on use.

Comment by Voniazmogis

Takes approximately 20 seconds to become active after the cast finishes. Which means that you have to plan ahead and not just use it at the last second.

Works differently compared to demonic circle - with demonic circle you can teleport through things without being hit (e.g. tornadoes on Al'Akir) - with demonic gateway you would get hit. That is the case because there is actually a travel time and you can see your character move, rather than your character appearing at the circle immediately.

Comment by Inkling

Doesn't teleport a flag carrier in Eye of the Storm or Warsong Gulch.

Comment by Destler

There appears to be some sort of level requirement attached to this spell. I cast it and a level 45 wanted to try it out. Didn't work. I invite an 85+., it works. Would be nice to include this info on the spell description? :P

Comment by 899758

This spell seems to be usefull in PvE for the fact that it adds a debuff Demonic Gateway on the player that causes him do lose aggro, like a priest's Fade

Comment by 571823

The idea of this is great but you move an inch away from it and it disappears. It would be better if it stayed until death or/and had the same radius as the Demonic Circle.

Comment by 997805

You are not allowed to use this demonic gateway while carrying the netherstorm flag (and probably the wsg one too).

the portal is really picky about "Pathing", so its hard to make it go up hills, around corners, or anywhere the portals dont have a perfects straight line.

the portals have range. which really sucks.

Comment by Magnatross

5.1 Patch Notes

-Demonic Gateway's duration has been increased to 15 minutes, and it will no longer despawn if the Warlock moves too far away. In addition, this ability can no longer be used in any capital city.

-Demonic Gateway must now be activated by the player wishing to teleport.

-A new Minor Glyph has been added: Glyph of Gateway Attunement. This glyph will cause a Warlock's Demonic Gateway to transport her immediately when she steps on it.

EDIT: In addition to the above, there was an undocumented change that allows the gateways to persist through death.

Comment by 319936

this ability can no longer be used in any capital city.

Comment by Magnatross

Strange fun fact: If you're using the default unit frame, you will see two little circles under your resource bar indicating the time left on your gateways(the same UI feature that shaman totems used to have/still have), but the strange part is, the bigger the distance between your portals, the more space there is between the two little circles!

Comment by 978262

The Demonic Gateway works much like a Warriors charge, you need to be able to run all that distance between the start gate and the end-gate.

The main gate will be created at the point of the caster and the second gate is free to place within a certain radius, it however can not be placed too close to the casters location.

When used (ran through) the player will be flown to the other gate (works both ways) in the same way a demonic leap works (or the goblin's rocketboot effect). Once entering one gate it looks like you phase out and become invisible, thus you should be able to gate past a group of patrolling guards, a wall of flame or something similar.

Comment by artyfarty

Keep in mind that this spell leaves a debuff on target, preventing it from gaining aggro. However this causes more problems than profit.

Tanks can't gain threat and taunt with this debuff.
If everybody have this debuff, boss will still attack somebody.

All this means that gateway should be used with much caution. For example, tanks and melee shouldn't use it on Zorlok, cause they will make him stop singning and somebody might die.

However, this effect can also be used to avoid some boss mechanics. For example it's essential on Kanrethad fight, because it forces him to choose another target for his Chaos Bolt. It even can mess up his "enrage curse" for a extra minute.

Comment by 764609

They should rename this skill to "No path available".

Comment by yzerman

As of 5.1, the Demonic Gateway must be clicked to be sent through it unless you are the casting warlock and have the Glyph of Gateway Attunement or Gateway Control Stone

Comment by FordStallion

5.2: as of the latest hotfix, the gateway is confirmed buggy. Just hope they revert soon, I wanted to kill Kanrethad tonight :/

Comment by Aesica

This spell has another use: When on the farm, pulling up weeds, there are some weeds that require you to click them, then start moving away a certain distance to rip them out. (They look like the druid's entangling roots spell) You can grab these weeds, click your nearby portal, and then laugh as they get ripped out effortlessly during transit.

Comment by 1049681

You cannot gate past mobs unnoticed. You aggro everything along the path between gates. It is fun to play with and looks cool, but it seems in the end to be of very little use.

Comment by BlizzardCS

Hey guys,
We wanted to let you know that there’s a known issue with the Demonic Gateway. If the Warlock that casts it moves away from either end (more than 100 yards), it will disappear. This issue is being investigated at the moment, hope it doesn’t impact you a lot. :)

Comment by Roygeebiv

MoP Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Demonic Gateways are no longer attackable once more and no longer temporarily removes threat from the user. The debuff from using a Demonic Gateway has been increased to 60 seconds (up from 15 seconds).

my emphasis. the gateway will no longer be of use dropping threat for the Kanrethad fight.

Comment by SonderousSundry

While this seems it would be best used in group content, whether PvE raiding or PvP, I find Demonic Gateway to also be a great time-saver while soloing. Being able to bounce right over a room full of mobs both ways is pretty nifty.

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Demonic Gateway

Demonic Gateway

10% of base mana	20 - 70 yd range

3 sec cast	10 sec cooldown

Create a demonic gateway between two locations. Stepping into the gateway causes any party member to be instantly transported to the other gateway.

Limit 5 charges. The portal generates one charge every 10 seconds and lasts 15 min.

Spell Details

Duration

1 millisecond

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

10% of base mana

Range

20 - 70 yards (Donut 20-70)

Cast time

3 seconds

Cooldown

10 seconds

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Summon (Leap Target)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Trigger Spell

	Demonic Gateway

Effect #3

Trigger Missile (Demonic Gateway)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

No AutoCast (AI)
No Summon Log

Demonic Gateway

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