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Comment by 6101

Best used on a Paladin, as they cannot remove curses. This will turn a 2.5 second heal to a 4 second heal.

Comment by 1437

Brutal on both paladins and priests.

Comment by 6343

Extremely usefull in BG. Just throw it on casters(ur right, most usefull to pallys) and watch warriors and rogues take them apart. What is a pally if he cant make it in time to heal himself inside his fortress of solitude ;)

Comment by 7987

Many warlocks forget about this curse, but it's wonderful in PvP and many PvE situations.

Comment by 249

Note that this spell accually causes the target to speak demonic, thus any words they utter will be impossible to understand by players.

it is also quite fun to cast this on Drak, Balinda, Galv or Vann in Alterac Valley and listen them yell out Demonic gibberish.

Comment by 47710

If you dont use this against every caster u fight u are a fool, its pretty much a 50% damage reduction and will probably discourage them from using any long nukes, it lasts 30 seconds to so it also will get the squishy lil mages pissed :( LOL Run through a bg and put this on every person that has mana that will turn the tide of battle greatly. Use this often, better than CoA against casters. Also watch the priests cringe to get there now 4.5 second heal on while u wail on them.

Comment by 57706

in patch 2.1 it has a 12sec duration on players

Comment by 75173

can this cause u to speak demonic in the chat thingy,i cant remeber what its called.

Comment by Magepro

How does it stack with Mind Numbing Poison?

Comment by Dreadlord

Did u no that if u speak in /s chat whilst Curse of Tongues is active on u, u literally, speak in demonic!

Comment by 100152

It is safe to say that any Warlock who plans on PvPing that does not have this spell keybound, is a complete joke.

Comment by 125904

Is it possible to have a crossfaction conversations if they both have the curse of tongues debuff considering they both speak demonic

No, because they cant even understant themselves nor others when they speak demonic.

Comment by 125904

as dappa said in rank 2 comments and asked can u speak with others that have it? well..

no, because nobody can understand demonic besides some NPCs can talk in Demonic.

i mea, not even you can. type lol and say it, itll come up as shi, with no laughing animatiion.

Comment by Elminstar

does this actually stack with the mage arcane talent slow? because if it does i think that would be a good boost on certain boss fights where you have a caster boss only or a group of bosses ( eg BT ) with one really mean caster or healer in the group

Comment by 104949

In arena's this should be always used on Mages and Pally's and Resto priests, and druids to make it harder for them to sheep and heal.

And yes this also makes Channeling spells longer

Comment by danceelf

useless on hunters

Comment by Kinka

I remember my very first experience with this spell...it was around level 45ish, and a few of us were heading in to explore Uldaman.
This was before Battlegrounds were implemented, so the PvP you saw outdoors was a zillion times more exciting.

I had it cast on me, and began frantically trying to alert my nearby groupmates that a Warlock was what was killing me...many of them were asking what I was dying to.

It wasn't until after death that I really looked at my chat log and noticed the demonic gibberish contained therein.

Comment by mattaproductions

Wow Blizz so another spell of ours that was useful gets nerfed? When are we ever going to get upgrades?

Comment by sloppyjoes

Sad to announce that this curse does not cover the enemy in tongues like I originally thought.

Comment by 368807

There's stupid thing about this spell lore-wise:
Eredar are extremely powerful spellcasters and because they serve the legion, they speak -guess what- demonic! So why should they create language that is slow when compared to Common or Orcish in terms of spellcasting? On the contrary, shouldn't it instead be developed so it would hasten it?

Edit: Why the downrate?

Comment by 339146

only good use i put on this spell is when im running low levels through stocks/deadmines etc.
i just run and cast this to far targets that i cant agro unless im close. this is expetional to pull mobs for a 1 pull instance!
#1 it wont kill ur target: and there for will pull all mobs that he comes close to making pulls alot easier.
# cheap: to cast this spell is 154MP vs CoA or CoE which cost 385MP making this very cheap on mana to pull away agro

**on the other hand i have noticed that this adds in pvp around .5 cast on my Shadowbolt making my 2.5 sec cast a 3 sec cast...... is this worth my CoA? or my CoE? imo is not worth it..... OH and to chop it off it only last about 10 secs (correct me if im wrong)
this spell seems to only have its uses on pve unless u wanna make some 1 talk demonic xD

Comment by mykevelli

It should be noted that since many classes got DoTs that scale with haste, they also have the downside of scaling with negative haste as well. For that reason, all haste-reducing abilities can slow down the DoT ticks of:

Corruption (if the warlock has the Glyph of Quick Decay)
Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch (if the shadow priest is in Shadowform)

This is a great way to knock a lot of DPS off of these classes in PVP.

Comment by Archibolt

Very useful on Sindragosa if Blistering Cold is an issue :)

Comment by matornot

This is now devastating in PvP for dot classes.

Comment by KnightProwler

I find it baffling that I've never seen a lock use this on me. More baffling still is the fact that Blizzard would consider this necessary for locks. Even if it is to single handedly kill a healer.

/disgrunted in disbelief

Comment by 417037

Actually, you can use this on Warriors (and other melee classes that don't cast, like rogues and ret pallies) (as an Affliction lock) to great effect in PvP.

Say a warrior is running towards you, put Curse of Exhaustion on him to slow his approach. As soon as he gets into your personal bubble, stick this on him, then cast Fear. Curse of Exhaustion will be replaced by your Curse of Tongues, returning him to normal movespeed, making him run away MUCH faster than he approached. As soon as fear breaks, recast Curse of Exhaustion, causing him to run back Baywatch style.
Of course, if he charges, or makes himself immune to fear, or trinkets (especially trinkets,) use Deathcoil and laugh.
Deathcoil always makes me laugh.
Always.
That aside, this thing rips healers and frost mages apart. And other things.
Have a nice day.
Unless you're a frost mage.
~Nielforic - Wyrmrest Accord

Comment by Magnatross

Bonus points if you cast this on an enemy who has macros that tie text to abilities, like:

/cast Tranquility
/yell Casting Tranquility!

Everyone nearby will enjoy a nice laugh :p

Comment by Thottbot

Iritating spell ^^

Comment by Thottbot

the thing is that its a instant cast and very cheap (80mana) som when u decurse i just cast a new one

Comment by Thottbot

but remove lesser curse cost less mana o.0

Comment by Thottbot

Does this actually make the enemy speak Demonic in their chat channels? Sounds silly to ask, but you never know, the game DOES have a demonic lanuage.

In that rare event it does, does that mean you can understand demonic too? Like, if cast on me, could I understand what my imp says when he speaks demonic?

Comment by Thottbot

Yeaaah, u really can see what the imp says :D

Comment by Thottbot

if i ralk to my friend will he see rag'ashn loch faman when i talk or watever demons say?

Comment by Thottbot

Does this curse stack? Say you have 5 locks and they pass by a PvP mage. Could they all put this curse on for 250% longer casting time for the mage?

Comment by Thottbot

If two locks, alliance and horde, cast this on eachother could they have a chat talking in demonic? ^^

Comment by Thottbot

This does make you talk in demonic and it lets you understand anyone who is speaking in demonic, it's really funny.

Comment by Thottbot

I beleive warlocks should be able to speak demonic anyway, like without the curse. And yes curse of tougnes does make you speak demonic.

Comment by Thottbot

don't forget the felhunter with spell lock and other mage eating junk ^^

Comment by Thottbot

I'm sure others have thought of this, but this works really, really well against any enemy castor, but especially Arugal. If there is no rogue on the team to kick him and prevent that spell he casts that turns a party memeber against you, this ensures it will take twice as long, delaying that really annoying spell of his.

Comment by Thottbot

dude, just WITH talents and without gear, through the entire dest. talent tree you can have 20% chance to crit with SP without items! not to mention its a lot harder to counterspell than shadow bolt, and if either one gets counterspelled, then resort to the other class of dmg. (counterspelled shadow = SP, vice versa) SP does NOT suck

Comment by Thottbot

Well, if you are an affliction warlock such as myself (lvl 70 BE warlock), then the smartest way to easily kill a warlock is to fear, DoT, mana drain, and just keep mana draining. But to make this combo succussful, you have to keep it (the mage) in fear, and for affliction locks, have him tagged with UA (unstable affliction), so if he decided to dispell, theres a good chance this he will die from dispelling. WARLOCKS PWN.

Comment by Thottbot

Im sorry i said "the easiest way to kill a warlock" i meant, " the easiest way to kill a mage*." SORRY>TYPO

Comment by Thottbot

No one puts curse of toungues on a mage. Wtf!
Mage can just decurse. A Pally can't decurse. This is like the warlocks mortal strike 30 second debuff. wtf! Imagine your 5 v 5 team, against whatever, where your opponent team's healer is a pally. Pally has this curse on them and he is trying to heal someone with mortal strike. Reduced cast time and reduced healing. Basically making his heals 25% as effective. gg...

Comment by Thottbot

This is an very incompliment thing that is very useful the the horrible, hard, unuseful, bloody BG! cuz if you are a warlock, and the FC. then if an scout of the alliance sees you... you can put this curse on him so he cannot say anything about it that you are there/here.

PS. i like that spell

Comment by Thottbot

Curse of tongues... Owns XD hehe, ya noticed that (in a duel more notibly) that the afllicted speaks Demonic? XD

Try it on a friend haha, ask um to duel, cast CoT, then get um to talk XD hehe, i loove it!... its now my FAVE lock spell! XD

Comment by Thottbot

every people keep say: mages, druids etc can clean this for less mana.

1- you arent a robot: you dont istant dispel as you see it.
2-you're missing that mage must channel the spell to do big BOOM on your head. i mean, mages get a cast bar of like 2-3 seconds and THEN a fireball hit you for high damage.
most of warlocks DOTS are istant.
so you can DOT, DOT, DOT, DOT, and spam this curse. while the mage is busy trying to cleanse your curse every second, other DOTS keep ticking.

Comment by Thottbot

You can't speak to anyone with curse of tongues, even if they also have it. It would be a conversation nobody understands. Secondly, you can speak in /bg /1 /2 /3 /p /g while in tongues. just not /s /y

Comment by Allakhazam

It's pretty funny, me and my friend tried it and it does actually make your target speak the demonic language while they're under the effect.

Comment by Allakhazam

Very very useful spell to use in combination with drain mana against high damage casters and healers.

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Curse of Tongues

Curse of Tongues

4% of base mana	40 yd range

Instant

Forces the target to speak in Demonic, increasing the casting time of all spells by 30%. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target. Lasts 30 sec.

Buff

Curse of Tongues	Curse

Speaking Demonic increasing casting time by 30%.
30 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

30 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Curse

GCD category

Normal

Cost

4% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Casting Speed - %
Value: -29%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Force Language (Demonic)
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
No Partial Immunity
Aura Bounce Fails Spell
Taps immediately

Curse of Tongues

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