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Leap of Faith

Leap of Faith

2.6% of base mana	40 yd range

Instant	1.5 min cooldown

Requires Priest
Requires level 84

You pull the spirit of the friendly party or raid target, instantly moving them directly in front of you.

Enhanced Leap of Faith (Level 92+)
Your Leap of Faith also increases your next non-periodic heal cast on that target by 50% for 10 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

1.5 seconds

School

Holy

Mechanic

Gripped

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

2.6% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1.5 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Script Effect

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy
Server-side script

Guides

Healing Priest Guide (Disc/Holy)

Raid and Class
cooldown list.

Ranged DPS
Overview -
Tips and Specs

Shadow Priest Guide

Warlords of Draenor
Priest Changes

Comments

Comment by lcbdeke

This will be very useful in warsong gulch

Comment by apel

i can see this being very helpful against ragnaros (assuming he still knocks back people). person A is low on health. ragnaros pushes him back. Person A is about to die from fall damage! priest uses this and saves his life!

Comment by asloversgo

It's very useful while jumping from a high building into a bale of hay.

Comment by Keelerak

I see it very useful spell if used properly, but Im affraid of it being in hands of noobs. they shoul pull uf away from flags ("I want to take it!"), to a dangerous situations ("I will die, you will too!"), or even worse. And I think 32% of base mana is just too much for spell like this (I know what base mana is, dont try to be smart)

Comment by Sarathstra

Leap of Faith - conveniently known as Life Grip.

Comment by Sarathstra

A word of warning: if you use this ability on someone at the same time as an enemy deathknight uses his death grip on the same person, the fibers that bind all matter may tear up, and the very universe will collapse.

Comment by Veltheris

Could be useful in conjunction with Power Word: Barrier, assuming the priest is in the barrier.

Comment by Shingshock

You pull the spirit of the friendly party or raid target to you, instantly moving them directly in front of you.

Priest should just stand near some high cliff when there is endless abyss in front of him. Just pull some party member with life grip and he'll fall into he's demise.

Comment by Crymoar

Petition to have the name changed top "Babysitter Beam"

Comment by Kaltzor

1.Jump over insanely long drop
2. Cast midair
3. ?
4. Profit.

Comment by Axura

also useful to save the entire raid from fatal noob pulls :) (but hope the child isn't on noob-rage which grants him total immunity to clever-friendly-spells!)

Comment by Abomb

I can c this being useful in arenas, if u think your partner is about to be bursted down or die u can pull him out of melee range or behind a caster, and in pve it's name will be the anti Jenkins spell

Comment by pathscience

This spell could suck and be very misused a lot of the time. Imagine a spiteful player following you around as you try to cap flags etc. They now have the ability to stop you from doing anything. This will also stop spell casts effectively allowing priests to indirectly kill someone attempting to get a heal off. This spell has much negative potential. Tread lightly Blizzard.

Comment by narutofan4232

This Ability would have been very useful in the lich king fight during the valkyr phase

Comment by Banehallow

Also a different way to say "Get this rogue off me!", pull a plate guy in front of you and watch the slaughter.

Comment by kgurnhill

Yoink!

Comment by Zing89

I really hope they reevaluate that cooldown. 1.5 mins is going to make it almost worthless, it'll be kind of forgettable at that length. If Death Knights can do this to other people every 35 seconds I don't see why the friendly version shouldn't be the same.

It should at least go down to a minute if not 35-45 seconds.

Comment by faia

when I saw the icon 1 word did come to my mind...

Redbull
It gives wings

Comment by Eliva2009

Did anyone else imagine 2 opposing teams one with all dks, and one with all priests in a BG going "RED ROVER, RED ROVER, WE SEND...."?

Comment by IDrownFish

Anyone else want a name change to Life Grip?

Comment by mechanus

You pull the spirit of the friendly party or raid target to you, instantly moving them directly in front of you.

Tooltip Clarification:
Does not work on altar boys.

Comment by Zuldim

The new favorite macro for raids everywhere:
/cast Leap of Faith
/y DON'T STAND IN THE FIRE!

Comment by Ironfungus

(Lich King fight)

"Hey, is someone going to kill this Valkyrie?"

"It's cool, we have a priest."

Comment by Meggie

Very useful at the lumber mill. Levitate, jump down, pull someone with you.
* SPLAT * 10% durability loss!

Comment by erschaedig

/cast Leap of Faith
/yell Silly DK's! Grips are for Priests!

Comment by AzureCow

No one remember The Chronicles of Ridick and the power of Zhylaw to 'Soul Leap'?

Comment by feldaemon

If there is a lazy raid member who has you on follow with an unscheduled /afk on, you can jump off a cliff and have a priest pull you back to safety while the other guy plummets to his doom... :)

Comment by draz

Any one know if you can use this on someone standing inside of ring of frost. If so will they be frozen?

Comment by Shaltenn

This would have been very useful on thadius in naxx. I always seemed to have player who could not make the jump. This would have made that less of an issue.

Comment by Lostelle

Highly useful for making friendly flag-grabbers in battlegrounds feel like Tantalus in hell.

Comment by AngryAnt

So many ways to annoy friends...

My mind, its imploding with ev0l thoughts! :(

You could,
wait till a friend charges then pull them back to go "oops"
Let a friend go AFK in Stormwind and see how far you could drag them ("What the? This isn't stormwind...")
Get many priests and chain pull someone to the boat for northrend!

And many many more :(.. Help.. Me... The ev0l thoughts.. i can't hold out much longer... I have become shadow.

Comment by Bendyr

Can this be cast on yourself, to trigger Body and Soul in the case that you're already affected by Weakened Soul?

Comment by Thunderstruck05

Am I the only one who has noticed that the icon looks like the Led Zeppelin "Swan Song" picture?

Comment by scouris

On the first boss in Halls of Origination, I was told to jump down on the right hand side and pull the lever. When I did this, I was instantly yanked back up to the platform by my healer. I, of course, had no idea that he had done it, and assumed that it was part of the mechanics of the lever that threw me back up to keep DPSing.

Subsequent runs, however, make me miss this ability :(

Comment by Koori

#showtooltip
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\\\Creature\\\\HeadlessHorseman\\\\Horseman_Beckon_01.wav")
/cast Leap of Faith

Of course only you can hear it, but makes me snicker.

Comment by nekorius

wondering how much I'll ask for bungee jump rides ;)

Comment by gikgak

What happens if two priests use this on each other at the same time-
1- they switch place.
2- nothing.
3- the server crashes.
4- the world is sucked into oblivionnnnnn...

Comment by blackholelectron

(reposted from Mind Control as this is relevant to both spells:)

Experimenting a bit in heroics, I found that a priest can Mind Control a mob or enemy player and then, targetting his or her Mind Controlled minion, Leap of Faith it, acting as a rudimentary Death Grip without the taunt component. While I haven't used this technique in PvP yet, it's extremely helpful for moving pesky casters to your tank in heroic groups (and it's also just really awesome).

Comment by Lolstorm

Or better yet, pulling a teammate you don't like into one. : )

The thing is, if you pull someone into the bladestorm you are in, it'll prolly hit even harder due to Sweeping Strikes. :(

Comment by archsilvanus

Can we get a list of exceptions for this spell, if rangecheck passes the 1st but fails on the 2nd effect of this spell it will not work and give you a cooldown.
one i found myself:
Does not work on:
1. Mounted players

Comment by Valkyre

Best use of this spell i have made so far is in Halls of Origination. I use it to pull peeps who've finish pulling the lever during the Temple Guard Anhuur fight back up to the bridge where you fight him on. Saves them a lot of time and dmg from having to have both people run the long way back up the steps. I only wish there was something to reduce the CD on this spell.

Comment by notdryad

Leap of Faith is great for Forgemaster in Grim Batol. When he pulls out the mace, pull the tank out of there. Even on regular, with his mace out, he'll hit for 25k. Great for Eredax, too. I always pull the tank into the safe zone for Shadow Gale.

Leap of Faith really is a great spell; Priests just need to look for opportunities to use it.

Also, tested this spell on a snared player (specifically, the roots the mobs before Isiset or whoever the life boss is in Halls of Origination) and it didn't pull them out.

Comment by Osmose

I like to use this to help kiting the adds on Ascendant Lord Obsidius in Blackrock Caverns.

Comment by WTFBBQPWN

Does this work on Spirit of Redemption?

Comment by coldveins

I LOVE ASSASSIN'S CREED!

Hah, I had to get that out of my system...

But based on the description, it seems like the most optimal way to use this spell is when the priest's bubble pops and would then cast leap of faith on his party member to use him as a living shield.

"After the target of your Leap of faith spell has been killed, his corpse will then be used as a shield which starts with 100 durability points. Each time you are hit by an enemy's ability, the corpse will absorb 100% of the damage, but also reducing the durability by one point for each hit landed. Once the corpse's durability reaches 0, it will be removed."

Priests would then be more popular for killing their teammates rather than healing them :)

Comment by esfendetish

Most LoF guides will have uses for the spell such as the following:

-Pulling people away from slimes in the Omnitron encounter.

-Pulling people out of Valiona’s breath.

-Pulling people out of the lava pillar during the Magmaw encounter.

Please don’t waste your cooldown on these mundane life-saving measures. You may get a thank-you from the person you saved and your raid leader, but your true potential as a LoF artist will be lost. Just follow my guide and you’ll be as skilled as me at using the spell in no time. While you’re reading, I’ll be over here waiting for Blizzard to implement my, “Lifegrip Ninja” title.

Lifegrip the Tank. They like that.
The first use for the spell is the most obvious. We all know that tanks are very flexible when it comes to raid mechanics and movement. They didn’t roll a tanking class to stand in one spot and stare at a monster’s crotch all day, so they really appreciate it if you give them a change of scenery by lifegripping them to whatever wall you happen to be facing at that current time. Don’t worry. If it’s a mobile boss, it will just follow them. This way the DPS gets to see the boss up close as it runs through their ranks, cleaving them. However, they will thank you for the chance to see the boss’ awesome model up close to really appreciate Blizzard’s textures. If they fall over it’s because they wanted to admire the floor tiles as well.
If the boss isn’t mobile, then you can count on the closest rogue or DK to tank. I haven’t really done any research on melee stats, but I’m sure it’s pretty much the same as tank stats. They’ll be fine, just throw a bubble on them and maybe a renew as well.

Lifegrip into an obvious AoE
You may have noticed that DPS tends to move around a lot. Sometimes they’re running from cleave mechanics, or they need to get in range of a mobile boss. You also may notice that some races don’t wear shoes. This includes tauren, draenei, worgen, and trolls. I don’t know about you, but as someone who has to constantly have my shoeleather cobbled due to running wear, it frustrates me to see them running with such mobility and freedom from shoe-related restrictions. They do not need pause to tie laces or re-attach Velcro. How unfair is that? I find it soothes my posterior related hurting to lifegrip them into obvious AoE mechanics.
“But how do I do this without standing in the AoE myself?” I hear you asking. Simple. Remember how I mentioned that DPS is constantly moving? This works in your favor. All you need to do is stand near an obvious AoE mechanic like a gravity well or a void zone and lifegrip away! The DPS is usually already mid-run and will be disoriented by the unexpected change of scenery. This usually lands them in the middle of a nice void zone where they will take rapid and now unavoidable damage. Their 50g repair bill makes me feel slightly better about having to buy new shoe leather. Slightly.

Lifegrip other healers mid-cast
With the new cataclysm healing mechanics, you may notice that most of the raid’s healers are pretty much constantly spamming their efficiency heals to keep people alive. As we all know, this is incredibly boring. I’m not sure what the Devs were thinking, but this is not a game where people can spam 3 buttons to play properly. There are days when I truly feel bad for mages because their incredibly complicated rotations make me feel ashamed as a healer pushing my 2 buttons all the time. I can understand why DPS complains in heroics as well. It’s very, very challenging to hit all their buttons and move out of obvious fight mechanics. That’s like asking people to do 2 things at once. Have you ever had your boss come up to you and ask you to two things for them? Holy meltdown! Humans were not meant to be able to withstand multitasking complexity of that high caliber!
I find that sometimes lifegripping other healers who are midcast is like that ultimate, “Screw you!” to Blizzard encounter design. I do it on behalf of the DPS who have to carry the brunt of the raids/heroics. Take that, healers!

Lava is your friend
Most of blackwing descent and certain parts of bastion of twilight have pools of lava surrounding boss stages. What’s not to love about lava? It’s warm. It’s orange. It looks like boppin’ orange Hi*C. I love jumping in lava so much that I want to spread its awesomeness around as much as possible. That means if I get shadow nova’d off Halfus’ stage, if I’m in a good mood I might bring the closest player next to me down with me. Grab your floaties and funnoodles! It’s a pool party!

Elevators? YESSSSS!
When I see elevators in raids and dungeons, I cheer. Clearly Blizzard has nailed the fact that more raid dungeons need long, deadly elevators in the middle of them. What else can I say about that?
The fun thing about elevators is that as long as you’re in the right position, if someone is a little late and doesn’t make it to the mobile platform, you can do them the favor of lifegripping them off the edge. Eventually they will catch up to the elevator or the ground. Though try to do this on classes other than mages or priests. They’re currently bugged in such a way that they can survive long falls. Necessary nerf inc.

#$%^&*!s with runspeed buffs
When I’m running back from a wipe I prefer to see everyone running at the same speed so I can win the race back to the buff spot and receive my prize of being able to alt-tab before we pull again. Some classes have runspeed buffs. Druids, rogues, paladins, etc. will all sprint ahead of you like the jerks they are so they can get to the spot, throw up their buff, and alt-tab to check their online banking. Rude.
This is obviously the perfect situation to use lifegrip. If you see someone sprinting ahead of you, wait until they’re nearly out of range and then pull them right back. By then their sprint buff will have worn off and they’ll be knocked down a couple pegs back to where they belong. Make sure you mute them on ventrilo ahead of time. Global mute, if you want.

Now that we’ve gotten the major uses out of the way, here are a few quick tips for priests to stay on their toes:

-You CAN lifegrip while mid-air! Share the gift of fall damage!

-Try to lifegrip death knights as much as humanly possible. If your lifegrip is off CD, you are doing it wrong because you should have already lifegripped a death knight.

-If you’re going to look bad to the raid leader because you failed at getting to a collapse spot for AoE heals (like during Chimaeron) you can always make yourself look better by lifegripping someone else to be standing there with you. That way when you get called on it you can be all, “But this death knight was standing out here, I thought this was where we were supposed to stand!”

-Lifegrip actually takes friendly targets out of stealth as well. If you have rogues or mages in your group that try to avoid wipes by being jerks and running away to invis, etc. leaving everyone else with repair bills and themselves with the heroism debuff, just grab them on your way to dying. Wiping with your guild builds character and repair bills, everyone should do it equally. WoW is an equal opportunity raiding environment.

Comment by IbFeeshin

Times up chumps, let's do this, LEEEERROOOOOOYYYYY JEEEENNNN-
/cast Leap of Faith
God damnit no! NOT AGAIN.

Comment by lyom

Several classes have healing spells for different situations. They can heal AOE, they can heal bursty damage.

With this spell under their belts, though, priests can in fact heal stupid.
Cooldown permitting.

Comment by Astrinel

This really deserves a glyph that lowers the cooldown, having one that lowered it to 30 seconds would be so helpful to pull idiots out of the fire.

Comment by sisay

99% effective at killing people on the elevator to the second wing of BWD.

Neat tip: If you rez them on the elevator, they'll fall when they take it and die again.

Comment by Nathanniell

OK, so what if my friend and I were flying (somewhere, idk doesn't matter) and I lifegrip him, would he dismount with me and fall to his death while I levitate safely down? >;P

Comment by fmccloud

Twice now I have pulled a flag carrier through our flag for a cap and had the flag NOT be capped for almost 5 seconds. It's almost like pulling them prevents a cap, like a hidden debuff. It's not lag, the FCs in both cases noticed that a cap didn't occur right away.

Anyone else notice this? I'm going to do more testing...it seems a bit lame that you can't pull a embattled FC in to the flag for a cap. =\',date:

Comment by Doppel

How to make hilarity:

1 part Death Knight
4 parts Priest
A variable amount of humanoid targets
Mind Control the Death Grip'd mob
A dash of lifegrip pong

Apply heat, mix and stir liberally.

Comment by Noize

Can someone make a macro so you dont have to target your m8 in arena to cast Leap of Faith just be in line of sitght? :)

Comment by Viagrawr

A great way to kill Level 70s you don't like is to join a Level 70 raid like the Black Temple and when the group is fully buffed up and ready to kill a boss, you suddenly run in behind the boss, LoF a level 70 and shadowmeld!
You may get hated, you may even get kicked, but you'll have the satisfaction of making one Level 70 even poorer!
And you can repeat this every 2 minutes whilst the raid is raging at you...

Comment by Alastoraa

This is very useful for grabbing flags/towers in PvP. If you stand back, you can Grip them away from it and grab it for yourself. Try to avoid using this on pallies, though, because if they're smart they'll BoP you.

Comment by Nyahm

I use it to mess with my friend when doing Tol Barad dailies. Specifically the gathering dailies. Mage friend Blinks over to get cursed shackles, Life Grip him as you run over and steal it. Cackle evilly as he curses you.

Comment by SkodLife

I think Children's Week will be interesting on the forums...

Comment by Ohemgeepwned

Someone you know that auto-walks a lot + look for a cliff + leap of faith near the cliff = Friend or person running off the edge of the cliff.
Just did that to my friend in org.

Comment by thefatjesus

Takes you out of Shadowform.

*edit* in mop the glyph dark binding allows you to do leap of faith while in shadowform

Comment by BrockoMG

Very useful when interrupting casts in Arathi Basin for the flag cap... so you can cap it yourself :D

Comment by Astrinel

I know everyone's been joking about having priests do a whole line of leap of faiths in WSG, but has anyone tried it yet?

Comment by Muffinsofdeath

Mind control an enemy player, then life grip them to you.

haha how do you like that dk!

Comment by Blackknight3

All in all it seems that priest will become the new evil DK's wuth LoF. And we tought Arthas was evil !

Comment by Zhalk

In Deadmines a Priest can PS/Spirit himself and grip a party member inside Vanessa's suicide's range. Useless but wicked funny way to waste two CDs.

Comment by Xcythe

Death Grip + Leap of faith + 400 damage = Guttling hook

Comment by PinkWolf

OOOOOOOOH.......SNAP!

Comment by ajf1

You should be able to use this out of line of sight. Then the name of the spell would make some sense, since faith is believing without seeing. Priests totally have enough faith to cause someone to leap to them without them seeing them =).

Not really though...that'd be really OP, especially in arenas as I think about it.

Comment by Edwiddlem

I combined this spell with the BWD elevator of death, very potent i learned, killed many a guildie. They step on the elevator, right as it starts to go down, life grip em, they panic, move forward and prompty fall to their deaths. Fun times

Comment by Darktwin

http://daily-quests.com/comic/?p=1297

Comment by trei49

two priests casting LOF at each other =

"...POWER OVERWHELMING!"

Comment by Superchief

Careful when using this during the Venoxis fight in ZG... in fact lol it's best if you just don't use it at all. I just used it to attempt saving the tank from poison and apparently he turned into a flying corpse moving towards me at a high rate of speed. Leap of faith = instant one shot kill. I think he got upset.

Comment by mmomeltingpot

This is a good ability to use during the Nefarian fight, to help out whoever's kiting the adds. Just be careful not to pull them into the path of other adds (or into the path of dragons).

Comment by Biggus1

My guild uses this at the start of the Majordomo fight in FL. Everyone but tanks stacks. Tank pulls Majordomo. Priest lifegrips tank into the stack. One thing to watch out for: lifegrip rotates the tank 180 degrees, but his camera angle does not change, so tank must be instructed to turn immediately to face Majordomo again.

Comment by Biggus1

This could be useful for dropping stacks during the Shannox fight in FL. If your Riplimb tank is not fast enough to run 40 yards while the spear is in the air, just lifegrip him to the boss to easily drop stacks from both tanks.

Comment by artyfarty

Use Cases Guide

PvP
The spell is extremely useful on capture-the-flag BGs

You can mount up and stay ahead of the flagcarrier as he runs to your base. Enemies will ignore you and concentrate on the flagcarrier. When he gets surrounded, pull him out.
While defending the enemy flag on your base, stand on the flag spawn point, so you can drag the flagcarrier to the spawnpoint the moment your flag is returned (enemies love to impair flagcarrier movement at this moment, deathgrip him, surrount the spawn with RoF, etc)
While defending the enemy flag on your base, you can also stand at the higher ground to drag the flagcarrier out of the crowd and buy time. However i would not recommend doing it, because it also buys time for enemy to recapture YOUR flag.
You can capture a well-defended enemy flag by approaching from the (usually undefended) higher ground. Your partner jumps down, gets the flag, you pull him back and run away.

Note: pulling to the higher ground can fail sometimes: the target will hit the wall and fall down. Especially if the target doesn't expect this.

PvE

Avoid using it on unexpecting targets minding their own business in the raid combat. Meaning, don't actually pull people out of the fire — you'll make the situation even worse by disorienting target.
Instead, feel free to actually save lifes and/or tons of time (and time=dps) — save people from falling, knockbacks, alakir's winds, help cutting looong distances and run away from various blind dragons.
Use this to save a disconnected player from deadly raid mechanics

Fun

You can pull the people over gaps in Grim Batol — they will !@#$ bricks.
Campfire, levitate, pull on the campfire
Pull a person who runs somewhere while standing back to a pit — stupid death. However, people will be very angry at you, so think twice.

Comment by taohinton

Used on friendly targets at very low health, gives them just enough time to look you in the eyes, cry 'Aaaagh' and then die right in front of you ^_^

Alternatively, wait just a moment longer and Voila! one fast moving corpse.

Perhaps more usefully, I was saved today by a very quick-thinking priest in EotS. As I was being punted over the edge (near the flag) for the Nth time this week, the priest life-gripped me back to terra firma. If you're quick enough, it's the perfect comeback to the potentially crowd-destroying Shaman knockback.

Comment by Skizzer

What if a Priest and a Deathknight grips the same target?...

Comment by Griezz

All I want to do is JUMP over the moon...

Comment by SolidSnack

I'll just leave this here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3d3kpeUCBc&feature=related

Comment by zharshoul

fun to use during hagara... life grip someone through the ice death barriers she makes.. good chance of killing them...

might have killed someone during the deathwing fight also,, if you lifegrip at the correct time when they are leaping off they will fall and die...

Comment by Murksel

How NOT to use Leap of Faith: WCM: Life Grip Fail

Comment by Qute

Its reach is enough to pull someone from ground level up to zeppelin in one go. How would I know this? Um... Let's say, I like when people go afk while in party with me!
Also there are some cacti on the right side of pvp building in Orgri (facing the building itself). You can get behind them, unless you're tauren, but you can't get out. And you can pull people in there too, though, in my experience, noone really appreciates the opportunity to look at cacti from up close :(

Oh and lastly, you can pull people through DS entrance. While you can "kick" your guildies or friends that way, it feels really great to teleport out afk-people in LFR on Siege.

Comment by Mazorlion

This spell actually works on spine of deathwing when he's rolling, but I think you need to wait until they're actually out in the air a little bit before gripping them, or else they will just fly off again.

Comment by Teamer

/cast Leap of Faith
/y GET OVER HERE!

Comment by Skjeggtroll

So how many join LFR only to use this on the ice wall phase? :)

Comment by TheDancingTree

Priests. Yanking the untrained out of fires since December, 2010.

Comment by gdr8205

I really wanna see a bunch of druids and priests use this to drag a DK down the entire length Eastern Kingdoms.

Comment by dudemanword

Use this ability in to pull people into the gastropod mobs on the path to Ji-Kun in Throne of Thunder. Your raid members will thank you for the thought later.

Comment by Konekomewew

My fave "Leap of Faith" usage to date: In the Galakras fight I was the healer on the tower team, I happened to be hit off the tower. My reflex reaction was to LoF the tank. Hilarious.

Comment by Redband

It's quite sad only you can hear it but

#showtooltip
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\\\Creature\\\\HeadlessHorseman\\\\Horseman_Beckon_01.wav")
/cast Leap of Faith

Should make this spell a lot more fun

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