Summon Gargoyle

Summon Gargoyle
Summon Gargoyle Row 8 Unholy death knight talent 30 yd range 3 min cooldown Instant Summon a Gargoyle into the area to bombard the target for 25 sec. The Gargoyle gains 1% increased damage for every 1 Runic Power you spend. Generates 50 Runic Power.
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Shadow
Cooldown	3 min
Talents
Talent required	[Coil of Devastation] or [Harbinger of Doom] or [Reaping]

Summon Gargoyle is an Unholy death knight talent that summons an Ebon Gargoyle. The gargoyle repeatedly attacks the death knight's target with Gargoyle Strike, a spell that deals Plague damage.

This spell can be replaced with [Dark Arbiter] by speaking to Lady Alistra in Acherus: The Ebon Hold. Dark Arbiter instead summons a Val'kyr Battlemaiden who uses Val'kyr Strike, dealing Shadow damage. The spell can be changed back by speaking to Alistra again.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02):
  • Fixed an issue with Gargoyle stutter casting when the cast time of Gargoyle Strike was lower than 1 second.
  • Gargoyle Strike damage reduced by 8%.
    
• Hotfix (2023-04-10): Gargoyle Strike cast speed increased to 2.5 sec, up from 2.0 sec and Gargoyle Strike damage increased by 25%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 8 Unholy talent (was a level 50 Unholy talent).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now requires level 50 (was 100).
  
• Hotfix (2018-08-08): Summon Gargoyle and the [Dark Arbiter] variant will now properly assist in combat and change targets.
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17):
  • Now a level 100 Unholy talent (was a level 75 Unholy ability).
  • Duration reduced to 30 seconds (was 40).
  • Now has the same effect as [Dark Arbiter]: The gargoyle gains additional damage based on Runic Power spent while it's active.
    
• Hotfix (2017-02-21): Gargoyle Strike damage increased 50%.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Duration increased to 40 seconds (was 30).
  
• Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): No longer costs Runic Power (was 60). Gargoyle now deals Plague damage instead of Nature.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer a talent. Now available as an Unholy specialization ability.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): The gargoyle should exclusively use its ranged attack regardless of range to the target. Additionally, gargoyles should now properly inherit their master's crit and spell penetration stats.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): New icon (was ).
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04):
  • The gargoyle now flies lower to the ground, making it susceptible to melee attacks. This ability now has a fixed duration of 30 seconds and a fixed cost of 60 runic power.
  • Corrected the inaccurate tooltip which claimed a Gargoyle could last up to 40 seconds, when in fact 30 seconds has always been the maximum.
    
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14):
  • Swapped places with [Unholy Blight] in the Unholy tree. Summon Gargoyle is the new Unholy 51-point talent (previously 25-point).
  • The Gargoyle will no longer re-attack rogues after they [Vanish], or night elves who use [Shadowmeld]. Monsters will stop trying to chase a Gargoyle after it flies away.
  • The debuff on the target indicating he or she is being pursued by a Gargoyle will no longer display the duration, and will be removed when the buff is removed from the death knight. Max duration in the tooltip changed to 40 seconds.
    
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Damage dealt by the Gargoyle reduced by approximately 20% and maximum duration cut to 30 seconds (was up to 1 minute).
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

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