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For the Pet Battle ability, see Peticon-elemental Spell nature stranglevines [Entangling Roots].
Entangling Roots
Spell nature stranglevines
  • Entangling Roots
  • Level 4 druid ability
  • 35 yd range
  • 6% of base mana
  • 1.7 sec cast
  • Roots the target in place for 30 sec. Damage may cancel the effect.
Properties
Class Druid
School Nature
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned 4
Improvements Inv misc herb sansamroot [Deep Roots], Spell nature stranglevines [Entangling Claws], Ability hunter pet cat [Predatory Swiftness]
Related debuff
Spell nature stranglevines
  • Magic
  • Entangling Roots
  • Rooted.
  • Duration: 30 seconds
The vines grew angry, as if every weed in Azeroth sought revenge upon those who would destroy their fertile home.[1]

Entangling Roots is a druid root ability.

Ability druid improvedtreeform [Incarnation: Tree of Life] causes this spell to be instant cast.

Tips and tactics[]

  • Use this spell if you need to run away from an enemy. The enemy may still be able to hit you with ranged attacks, but otherwise, it can't move to attack you.
  • Invaluable in PvP against melee classes.
  • Use it for crowd control in an instance, if needed.

Notes[]

  • Damage done to the target may prematurely end Entangling Roots.
  • One of the few crowd control spells not subject to creature type restrictions (humanoid, beast, demon, etc.). It is, however, unreliable: it doesn't stop targets from casting spells or using ranged attacks, just from moving, so it is useless against casters and hunter-like NPCs. In addition, any creature that is immune to nature spells, as is common among elementals, is immune to Entangling Roots.

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Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Duration decreased to 6 seconds in PvP combat (was 8 seconds).
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Rank 2 removed.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 2 added at level 56: Entangling Roots can withstand 20% more damage before breaking.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 4 (was 24).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.1.5 (2019-03-12): Mana cost reduced by 66%.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-11-14): The Entangling Roots version of Spell nature stranglevines [Earthen Grasp] is now properly affected by Spell druid massentanglement [Hardened Roots].
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 24 (was 22).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now learned at level 22 (was 10).
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2012-12-11): Several abilities that should break on damage will now correctly have a chance to break when damage is absorbed, including Entangling Roots.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now learned at level 10 (was 7).
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2011-12-06): Entangling Roots should now properly break when the affected player takes damage while a damage absorption effect is also active.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Spells which have an effect broken by taking damage past a threshold now count damage that was prevented by damage absorbs or other damage reducing effects.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Entangling Roots and the equivalent spell triggered by Spell nature natureswrath [Nature's Grasp] no longer deal damage.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Effects which are broken from taking too much damage now break automatically from about half as much damage taken as before.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now lasts 30 sec (was 12). Range increased to 35 (was 30) and cast time increased to 2 sec (was 1.5). Now learned at level 7 (was 8).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): When determining if a new Entangling Roots should overwrite an old one, and will now calculate the correct damage modifiers for the creature type of the target.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Entangling roots is now usable indoors.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13):
    • It is no longer possible for multiple Druids to have Entangling Roots on the same target. In addition, it will now always be removed correctly if multiple Druids overwrite each other's Entangling Roots.
    • This ability will no longer be overwritten when the new Entangling Roots would do less damage.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25):
    • It is no longer possible to have Entangling Roots on two targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
    • It is no longer possible to have more than one rank of this spell active on a player.
    • Duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
  • Bc icon Hotfix (2007-02-14): Entangling Roots should now affect certain creatures properly.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): All crowd control effects have a chance each second to break earlier, and their duration is capped at 12 seconds in PvP. The chance increases with resistances and the level difference between the target and the caster.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Entangling Roots now shares the same duration in pvp as other long-duration forms of crowd control (ie: polymorph, fear, sap).
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): Now subject to diminishing returns in PvP. This is considered an immobilizing effect.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.2.0 (2004-12-18): Entangling Roots: Rank 4 moved to level 38.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Removed facing direction requirement from Entangling Roots.
  • Test-inline Patch 0.9 (2004-08-17): Should no longer end early based on damage caused by itself.
  • Test-inline Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Mana cost has increased.

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