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For the Ritual of Doom spell in the Dreadscar Rift, see Demonic Offering.
Ritual of Doom
Warlock sacrificial pact
  • Ritual of Doom
  • Level 31 warlock ability
  • 40 yd range
  • 1 Soul Shard
  • 1 hour cooldown
  • Channeled
  • Begins a ritual that sacrifices a random participant to summon a doomguard. Requires the caster and 4 additional party members to complete the ritual.
Properties
Class Warlock
School Shadow
Cooldown 1 hour
Other information
Level learned 31

Ritual of Doom is a Warlock spell that when cast, sacrifices a participating party member's life for the benefit of summoning a Doomguard. It requires the caster and four other party members to participate in the summoning.

This summons a hostile Doomguard that soon becomes automatically subjugated as an additional guardian pet for the Warlock. The Doomguard lasts up to 15 minutes, but has a small chance to break free from the subjugation at any time and attack your group.

History[]

Originally, the demon had to be enslaved or otherwise it would attack the party. It is related to the Doomguard that spawned from the proc of Spell shadow auraofdarkness [Curse of Doom], which needed to be enslaved and would break free from enslavement after a certain amount of time had elapsed. Ritual of Doom was later updated to require only a significant portion of the caster's health to summon. Then, the spell was removed from the game entirely and replaced with Warlock summon doomguard [Summon Doomguard], which simply summoned the Doomguard for 5 minutes, after which it would despawn.

Patch changes[]

  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Re-added at level 31 (was 60). No longer requires Inv misc orb 05 [Demonic Figurine]. Icon updated (was Spell shadow antimagicshell).
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Removed. The doomguard minion is now summoned through the spell Warlock summon doomguard [Summon Doomguard].
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): A Doomguard summoned with this spell will now scale properly from its master's stats.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Now works correctly even when the Warlock already has a pet (dismissed the existing pet.)
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Should now display the cooldown.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): Can now be learned from N Warlock [60G] Suppression.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): The death caused at the completion of the ritual no longer causes durability loss.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Added.

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