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Curse of Recklessness
Spell shadow unholystrength
  • Curse of Recklessness (5 ranks)
  • Level 14 warlock ability
  • 30 s. yd range
  • 160 Mana at max level
  • Instant
  • Curses the target with recklessness, increasing melee attack power by X but reducing armor by Y for 2 min. Cursed enemies will not flee. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.
Properties
Class Warlock
School Shadow
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned 14
Improvements Spell shadow painfulafflictions [Contagion], Spell shadow callofbone [Grim Reach], Spell shadow haunting [Improved Drain Soul], Spell shadow unsummonbuilding [Suppression]
Related debuff
Spell shadow unholystrength
  • Curse
  • Curse of Recklessness
  • Increases melee attack power by X and decreases armor by Y. Target will not flee and will ignore Fear and Horror effects.
  • Duration: 2 min

Curse of Recklessness, or CoR for short, was a Warlock Curse that caused the target to ignore all fear effects and reduced their armor but increased their attack power.

Rank table[]

Rank Mana Cost +AP -Armor Level Cost
1 40 20 140 14 9s
2 70 45 290 28 45s
3 100 65 465 42 99s
4 130 90 640 56 1g 98s
5 160 135 800 69 6g 30s

Notes[]

  • Will replace any existing Curse on the same target from the same warlock.
  • A cursed NPC will not flee while afflicted with this curse.

Talent improvement[]

Several talents affect all Affliction spells including this curse:

And as of patch 3.0.3, Frailty reduces the amount of attack power granted by your Curse of Recklessness by 50/100%.

Tips and tactics[]

This spell if useful for any humanoid that might run near death. Look for the "runs away in fear" emote around 20% health. The trick is to place CoR rank 1 (lower mana cost) just before then, leaving a more useful Curse on for the majority of the fight.

In raid encounters you can increase melee DPS by 6-12% for a nominal increase in damage on the main tank. Use this Curse on any boss who does not use abilities modified by Attack Power (ie Ability warrior savageblow [Mortal Strike] or Enrage).

Curse of Recklessness also nullifies Spell shadow possession [Fear]. This means that a Warlock can easily CC by casting fear on a mob, and then casting CoR just before it gets out of range. This allows time for a pet to take aggro or your party to finish it off. If the mob gets back to you before the original fear would have run out you can cast another curse, canceling CoR and the mob will start running again.

This curse can also be useful against casters, as their attack power is not used.

Patch changes[]

  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Removed.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Curse of Recklessness will no longer prevent Fear effects, only prevent NPCs from fleeing (e.g. at low health).
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28): Mana cost decreased.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Fixed a bug where Fear and Curse of Recklessness, when used together, would prevent targets from casting spells.
  • Test-inline Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Moved to level 14.

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