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Comment by Carighan

This spell is absolutely brilliant!
It's basically 5-10 healthstones for a single soulshard. In addition, drop it right before you attack a tough group or a boss, and you can re-stock on a HS midfight. :)

Comment by rlyeh

I'm sorry can you hold please? Yeah, all the lines are busy now with people sending me tells to join them for raids. I know, they only want me for my healthstones and soulstones. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.

This spell is wonderful. I was beginning to think a 28-slot soul shard bag wasn't going to be enough for a long raid. Handing out healthstones all night and having to constantly refill the bag gets annoying.

Now if only I could perfect my spell... "Ritual of Vodka".

Comment by Merylyan

If you want to have a fun time, try a Ritual of Doom instead of a ritual of souls.

The summon stones of the two rituals have the same look... People are clicking on them without paying attention to the different name... and *poof* surprise !

Comment by Bubblebath

Tried doing that yesterday. They treathened to kick me from the group if I dared to do it agan, but it was still fun, so thanks for the idea Mery!

Comment by Zurr

the above information is no longer correct, the graphic changed into a greenish summoning portal.

However, you can still succeed in getting people to click on the ritual of doom portal because of ignorance.

Comment by Atli

Not knowing exactly how this spell works, I notice that the stones created by this spell vary in amount of health they regenerate.
So far I have seen three types: 2080hp, 2288hp and 2496hp.

What gives?

Comment by kuriva

It is on account of Warlocks either speccing 0/2, 1/2 or 2/2 in Improved Healthstone in the Demonology talents.

Comment by Rarehunter

If your raid can manage it, its always good to have 3 locks that can summon a Soulwell that supplies one of each, since they are different from each other, so one person can hold all 3 at once. (They do have a 2min cooldown, though)

Comment by orcishincubus

For raid boss fights, they can tend to last upwards of ten minutes, and for fights like VR for melee... three healthstones go a loooong way.

(Some bosses enrage after ten minutes, but not all, but regardless, ten minutes is enough time to use three healthstones...)

Comment by failquail

Animation updated patch 2.4.3

Comment by biscuitpower

I'm happy with some of the changes that have been made to the "cookie jar."
Fixing that nasty little bug where it would sometimes activate the cooldown without actually summoning the well? Great! I hated that.
Giving it new animations? Cool! I guess it needed some spicing up.
But Blizzard still has one thing to do with it before I'm truly happy... For the love of all that's unholy and indecent, give it 25 stones! Please! I can't tell you how many times my SSC raid has taken them all in a heartbeat only to keep asking for more.
I can deal with PvP nerfs, I can live with making Shadowbolt not as uber, just give my cookie jar more stones!

Oh one last thing, so far there are 2 new ranks of Healthstone in the beta, but no new ranks of the Ritual...
Please don't forget and have to add it in a later patch, I don't think my soul(shards) can take making 25 stones one at a time.

Comment by Ryudos

Confirmed on MMO champions from a blue post as having 25 charges in WotLK.

Comment by remmurd

With a new glyph that is coming in WotlK, this spell doesnt requires any soulstone! AND, the glyph is a minor glyph!

Comment by patryk

Glyph of Souls removes the need for a sould shard!

Comment by richy2j

Do you have to be a certain spec to learn this spell?

Comment by orcishincubus

Nope, just level 68, as it says above.

Comment by shika

Awsome skill to use in raids and such, considering the 25 charges on it.

If you have the talent for it in the Demonology tree it heals about 5.2k HP, which is basically like another HP potion to everyone. Considering this also only costs one soul shard, a viable option in BGs is to help someone else make it so that not only you get a Healthstone, but the other person too.

Comment by kuriva

As a follow up, this is no longer possible as you are only able to carry one healthstone at a time. So always take the healthstone from the Warlock who has the most points in Improved Healthstone.

Comment by Merylyan

Erecting a dispenser!

Comment by Erkthecrux

This spell currently causes disconnections when cast in a battlegrounds.
Edit, October 21st: I think it has something to do with the fact that it's an "operation" because the netherstorm flag in Eye of the Storm also causes mass disconnections.

According to one of my friends, a GM told him that they are "aware of the problem, and are fixing it ASAP". I hear this a lot from game masters :/

Comment by Herukakaya

If a warlock prepares a soul well, each character that takes a Healthstone from the soul well, acts as the creator of their own stone and it will therefore restore 45% of that character's base health, not the base health of the warlock.

Edit: Since MoP, a healthstone now restores 20%, but has 3 charges. It no longer restores 45% (with its only charge) as it did when I first made the comment.