Horrify

Horrify is a Spirit Realm Witch Doctor skill unlocked at level 8. It's a sort of curse, frightening any enemies near the Witch Doctor into running away for a short time.

Background

Horrify in action

The Witch Doctor frightens away any enemies in his immediate vicinity. The spell is cast from the WD; it's not something you can target at an enemy some distance away, which makes it more useful for personal defense, but useless in most tactical situations.

Runestone Effects

The following is a very quick list. See the Horrify rune effects page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

Icon	Skill	Description

Horrify Spirit Realm (Level 8)

[e] Cooldown: 20 seconds Don a spectral mask that horrifies all enemies within 12 yards, causing them to run in fear for 5 seconds.

Stalker

[e] Gain 50% increased movement speed for 4 seconds after cast.

Frightening Aspect

[e] Gain 170% additional armor for 8 seconds after casting Horrify.

Ruthless Terror

[e] Gain 282 Mana for every feared enemy.

Face of Death

[e] Increases the radius of the effect to 26 yards.

Phobia

[e] Increases the duration of the fear to 12 seconds.

Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.

Skill Design

A useful skill if you are caught unprepared or are surrounded, buying precious time to retaliate. It can be also used to help out team mates who've been swarmed. Furthermore, players can try to take out a pack of enemies, damage them, horrify until other spells cooldown and try again.

Very useful for defending against melee attackers, whether monsters or in the Arena.

Enemies afflicted by Horrify show a glowing green skull over their heads, demonstrating why they are running.

Horrify Video

A video of Horrify in use can be seen below, courtesy of the DiabloInc You Tube channel.

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Synergies

• No synergies with any of the passive skills are yet known.

Development

Horrify was first seen in the WWI 2008 build. Besides moving from the old Voodoo Skill Tree to the Spirit Skill Tree, it stayed very much the same as of BlizzCon 2009.

It remained the same at BlizzCon 2010, where it was one of the default skills on the pre-made Battle Arena Witch Doctor. It was very useful in the Arena, mostly in case of sudden encounters with Barbarians, as Flux noted:[1]

One that I saw used seldom, but to great effect when it was. It utterly frustrated Barbarians, since just when they had the Witch Doctor lined up... they’d go running in the other direction, unable to control their character for a couple of seconds. If the WD were smart, he could actually lure in a Barb, Horrify him, tack on a Grasp of the Dead, release the hounds, and then and then blow them up. I never saw this done, but it was fun to imagine.

Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Horrify became a level 8 skill.

Previous Versions

See the Witch Doctor skill archive for more details on previous versions of Horrify and other Witch Doctor skills.

Media

Horrify can be seen in action on video here:

• Video: August 2011 Witch Doctor Skill Animations

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:

• Diablo III screenshots and pictures
• Horrify specific gallery contents

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  Horrify in use.

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  Horrify on Ghouls.

References

• BlizzCon 2008 Witch Doctor Gameplay Report
• BlizzCon 2009 Full Witch Doctor Skill Trees and Stats
• BlizzCon 2010 PvP Hands-on Report
• Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
• Witch Doctor Active Skills -- Diablo III 13th Sep 2011

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