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Army of the Dead
  • Army of the Dead
  • Channeled
  • 1 Blood 1 Unholy 1 Frost
  • Summons an entire legion of Ghouls to fight by your side. The Ghouls will swarm the area, taunting and fighting anything they can. While channelling Army of the Dead, you will take less damage equal to your Dodge plus Parry chance.
Usable by
ClassDeath knight
Properties
TypeUtility
SchoolUnholy
Cooldown10 min
Talents
Improvement
talents
Night of the Dead
Other information
Ranks1
Related buff
  • Army of the Dead
  • Summoning Ghouls.
  • Duration: 6 secs
A human death knight and his army of the dead
JoshmaulAdded by Joshmaul
"You're no use to me alive."
—Saeryn Dusksorrow
[1]

Army of the Dead is learned by Death knights at level 80. It was the first Death knight ability to be announced. It is a channeled ability which summons a number of ghouls to fight for the death knight. These creatures run around and attack nearby hostile targets at random.

Unlike most other guardian pets, ghouls cannot benefit from Bloodlust/Heroism directly. However, if these spells are active on the player prior to summoning the ghouls, they will benefit from the added haste. Additionally, effects that increase damage done by a percentage, such as Blood Presence or Bone Shield will not increase their damage, however, the haste added from Unholy Presence will. Attack power effects will not aid them yet strength will. This means that while Battle Shout or Blessing of Might are useless for the ghouls, Horn of Winter or Unbreakable Armor is useful.

It is also worth noting that the adds will not taunt bosses in raids. Bosses in any 5 man dungeon or adds on raid boss encounters will be taunted by the ghouls.

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Background

This is a variation of a spell type, commonly used by Death knights in previous games, called Raise Dead in Warcraft II, Animate Dead in Warcraft III, and Undead Minions in the RPG.

Improvements

Patch changes

  • Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): The cooldown on this ability has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Army Ghoul damage dropped by 50%. Cannot be used in Arenas.

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Facts about Army of the DeadRDF feed
Patch date8 December 2009  +