Spell Lock is a Warlock Felhunter skill, best described as a hybrid of Silence and Counterspell. When used, it will silence its target for 3 seconds; if the target was in the process of casting a spell, however, then the spell will be interrupted and, depending on Spell Lock's rank, the target will be unable to cast a spell from the same school of magic for either 5 or 6 seconds. This is an instant-cast ability with a 24-second cooldown.

Rank TableEdit

Rank	Level	Mana	Silences for:	Locks for:
1	36	120	3 sec	5 sec
2	52	200	3 sec	6 sec

Tips and TacticsEdit

Spell Lock, like all of the Minion skills, can be set to Auto-cast; however, as the AI will normally use this skill to immediately Silence its target, rather than attempt an arguably more beneficial interrupt, it might be more viable to disable this. Disabling auto-cast will allow the Warlock to decide if a spell is worth interrupting, or if the target is enough of a threat to use an interrupt on.

Use of this skill will usually force an NPC caster to enter melee combat, where they are at a considerable disadvantage.

Patch changesEdit

• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Duration reduced to 5 seconds (rank 1) and 6 seconds (rank 2), and cooldown reduced to 24 seconds. 
  
• Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-22): In addition to interrupting spellcasting, it will now silence the target for a short duration. 
  

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