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Comment by Rednosedmoose

A great trick for the Ritual of Summoning is for the Warlock to select himself and two party members "summon" him. This brings up the Summon Accept screen and it gives you 2 minutes before it wears off. The Warlock may then hearth and repair, buy food/water for the group, or whatever else they want in two minutes. They then simply accept the summon from themselves. Voila! No time walking back.

Creative game mechanic use!

(Note: This isn't as useful for 5 man instances now with meeting stones summoning. It is still useful for questing, random grouping, and raid areas. Also, I have never tested it with battle grounds, but I assume it would *not* work since the they are an instanced area and you can't summon into instances.)

Comment by Toldry

can you use this while in BG?

Comment by Warhead

This is one of the gems you get for being a Warlock. It is so much fun! Work together with a mage friend to trick people into teleporting themselves away. Drop people off cliffs by summoning them over the edge. Summon friends to weird places you got into, summon low level characters to high level places!

Comment by clavarnway

My favorite use of this spell is flying to the very top of Aldor Rise; there are hovering stone pieces that look like halves of an arch. Ask in trade if anybody wants free summons to Shattrath, then invite them when you already have a couple of friends with flying mounts with you, and summon them at the very top. The only way most classes can get down is by dying...what's funnier, most people thank me before jumping to their unavoidable death!

Comment by clavarnway

Why in the world did people vote down my previous post? I thought it was humorous and brought to light some possibilities with this spell.

Comment by beforememory

Yes it is true as of 2.4 you will be able to summon into instances as long as the target meets the level requirements of the instance.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
This link will take you to the Test Realm Patch Notes, so currently this is relivant but will not always take you to the right thing.

Comment by Exlonox

Can't be used in Zul'aman as of patch 2.4.2, strangely. Can be annoying when someone accidentally runs back after dying to Jan'alai and forgets the scouts have a fast respawn timer.

Comment by Groundlord

Waiting near a Meeting stone is one of the best ways to get money as a Warlock. People will want you to summon other people for a variety of reasons (the "summonee" is too high or low level for the stone or something), and they'll usually tip pretty well.

At least they should. Unlike Mages, who only have to buy a little rune for a transport spell, Warlocks need 2 helpers and an item that they only get by putting their life at risk (that might be a little exaggerated, but you still have to kill something that can kill you just to get a Shard).

Comment by Frallanboy

I'm a little warlock short and shout, if u click on the portal. *Name* will come out!

Comment by incoming00

According to wowhead, this spell will be changed on patch 3.0.8

Will now create a summoning portal object which can be re-used for multiple summons for 5 minutes.

1 shard for 5 minutes of summons is definitely a huge improvement!
http://www.wowhead.com/?patchnotes=3.0.8-ptr

Comment by Gohtohmaon

does it still plop the portal over your character in 3.0.8 with the summon casket thingy?

i think it looks a little bit ugly have a portal covering yourself and then a huge tauren poofing into your personal space

i know they changed it so locks cant summon people off cliffs and stuff but couldnt they have made the portal float above your head or something?

Comment by sakpoth

Do you still need 3 people to summon with the change in 3.0.8?

Comment by stevenclark

The Changes to Ritual of Summoning that were expected for 3.08 willl not be seen for a few days after the patch. Blizzard found an exploit jsut before releasing it and simply disabled the stone for now. So for now, the summon stone will jsut have a 2 minute cooldown and no new features.

Blue post reference

Comment by Beryligos

The new ritual stone can be used by anyone, even if they are not in the group. Unsure if this goes as far as to work cross-faction, seeking more information.

Comment by ZeroForever

3.0.8a was released today. The "new" patch corrected the ritual of summoning. Now it creates a green portal like Ritual of Souls. Once 2 other party members click it, a stone appears and the stone itself acts like a summoning stone found at most instances. The stone lasts 5 mins and the cool down is still 2 mins for the actual spell. Happy summoning

Id also like to add that blizz made the new "warlock summoning stone" totally sweet looking!

Comment by YaPS

The people who were summoned by the people who were summoned who were summoned by the non lazy people who actually came to the raid on time...

Loved this phrase :))

Comment by Junblat

This is how the new portal looks like.

Comment by Opice

In case any of you have not noticed by now, the fancy new 'stone' is a demonic figure that is opening his big scary cloak and flashing you.

Pervert warlocks. First we all made the generic succubus jokes and had a good laugh, but now... you just sicken me with this. Best spell ever!

Comment by tgraef

This looks like its straight out of Tim Burton's imagination. I love it.

Comment by Sasdeadeye

Is it just me or does the new summoning stone look like a drug dealer when he opens his robe? O_o

Comment by Chardys

For some fun, put one of the new stones up at the open doorways in the base of Naxxramas. Then, a druid in flight form can start a summon while they're flying over open air, and someone on the ledge can click the portal to complete it. The result? Good old-fashioned summon of doom.

Blizzard may try to fix this, but it remains to be seen.

Comment by Quaxi

The Warlockdrobe of doom.

Fear it.

Comment by theBMhunter

If you summon a person who is in a different phase than you, when you summon them will they go in the same phase as you or will they be summoned in there phase in the spot where you summoned them?

Comment by bobgoatse

I used to do a lot of mean/funny stuff with this spell on my lock back pre-bc.

The classic one I can remember was summoning lowbies or guildies into the gurubashi arena and then killing them.

Summoning underwater was fun as well, I used to know a spot in a sunken ship where you could summon someone and he wouldnt be able to get out without drowning (this was well before the whole impossible to drown thing). We were of course sitting there with water breathing on having a good chuckle.

Comment by Archaeic

It is entirely possible to use another warlock's summoning stone.

I just used to to summon a few slackers in Dalaran. There were no error messages.

Comment by thebeefster

/cast Ritual of Summoning
/s In order to summon those in need....we must first bring forth....
/y THE DOOR!
/s The door is all that once was and all that ever will be.
/s The door can see into your mind....
/y THE DOOR CAN SEE INTO YOUR SOUL!

Comment by HighwaterCowboy

Ok, I hope somebody will help me here. Ritual of Summoning for Dummies, please.
So you are in a 5 man dungeon group. Somebody has died, maybe no healer to res.
You click on ritual of summoning and after a lengthy time the portal appears.
Exactly when do you (and 2 others) click on the revived party to pull them to your location? I'm not sure why this is over my head. I keep thinking that it's so long and complicated I will never know if it works.
Can anybody help me with this?

Comment by silkfire

This spell now costs 42 mana and is learnt at level 42, and yes it is the answer to everything, even to lazy players who can't be bothered to fly to the raid's location.

Comment by Morgomir

can't use it in LFG dungeons to summon people now though last patch did it fine

Comment by urfurf

You can't use this to summon a Goblin, Worgen, Pandaren or a Death Knight character who hasn't completed the starting area quests.

Summoning Stones don't work either.

Comment by LethalPanda

Ahh! Freshly 90 and in a Sha of Anger pug! I'm sure they'll value my DPS for being adequate to their standa-

"hay summons plz"
"nub summon me"
"can I get a summon?"
"any1 a lock 4 summons?"

And that's how I came to hate this spell.

Comment by namilea

Kinda makes me mad that when we had the guild perk summon, we could do it on our own, but this spell still needs you plus 2 other players to use it...even the dungeon summoning stones only take 2 people. Come on Blizz when are you gonna make this spell more usable : (

Comment by Skullhawk13

It warms my heart that most of the comments here are how to kill people with this spell, rather than anything to benefit the group. You all truly understand the warlock class. <3

Comment by Bogdanov89

Tried using it in a LFG 5man dungeon to summon the tank (he was repairing), it said "can not use that in LFG".

Comment by asloversgo

This ability should be removed from the game to teach people to actually do things for themselves and not rely on others to do everything for them. And by this I mean everyone spamming "123" and "sum pls" when sitting in their garrison when it could easily take no more than 3 minutes to get where they're supposed to be if they just took their time to do so.

Comment by irishlord

Looking for a lock who will summon people off the edge of a cliff. I bet it is possible.

Comment by irishlord

50% of the people have the bodyguard who can summon but they dont bring it because they dont want to summon. Those are the same people who ask to be summoned.

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Ritual of Summoning

Ritual of Summoning

4% of base mana	30 yd range

Channeled (2 min cast)	2 min cooldown

Requires Warlock
Requires level 42

Begins a ritual to create a summoning portal, requiring the caster and 2 allies to complete. This portal can be used to summon party and raid members.