Spirit Walk Class: Witch Doctor Required Level: 16 Skill Category: Defensive Active Cooldown: 10 seconds Leave your physical body and enter the spirit realm for 2 seconds. While in the spirit realm, your movement is unhindered. Damage Type: Physical Other Stats: Does not interrupt casting; Can be cast on the move; Can be used under crowd control effects; Breaks crowd control effects; Does not start cooldown until after effects expire  |
Spirit Walk is a Defensive Witch Doctor skill.
In-game
Separates the Witch Doctor's spirit from their body, allowing the spirit to move unhindered, phasing through enemies and obstacles (including Waller affix barriers), with +50% movement speed, clearing and ignoring all status effects. The physical body will remain where it was left, unattackable and untargetable by enemies, taking no damage.
The spirit is also unattackable and invulnerable, immune to Crowd Control, but may still use all attacks and spells. Whenever the effect ends, the spirit and the body merge at the current location of the spirit. Spirit Walk does not interrupt cast of other spells, and can be cast while moving.
The cooldown does not start until the effect wears off, normally allowing the skill to be used every 12 seconds.
Runes
- Jaunt: increases duration to 3 seconds.
- Honored Guest: regain 20% of maximum Mana when casting Spirit Walk.
- Umbral Shock: when Spirit Walk ends, the physical body erupts for 750% damage as Fire to all enemies within 10 yards.
- Severance: increases the movement speed bonus by additional +100%.
- Healing Journey: regain 14% of maximum Life when casting Spirit Walk.
Non-rune enhancements
- Shukrani's Triumph (Legendary Mojo): after the normal duration expires, Spirit Walk lasts either until the Witch Doctor attacks or comes within 30 yards of an enemy.
Passives
- Rush of Essence: on each cast, restores 100 Mana over 10 seconds.
- Spirit Vessel: casts unmodified, cooldown-independent Spirit Walk upon death every 60 seconds.
Development
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Prior to patch 2.1.1, the physical body was attackable, and taking more than 50% of maximum Life in damage would cause the effect of Spirit Walk to prematurely end.
Trivia
- An ability of identical name exists in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft series, taken even further by a Wraith Walk spell of Death Knights.
- As the cooldown does not start until the effect wears off, Grave Injustice and other similar reductions will not reduce the remaining cooldown while the skill is still active.
Primary Skills
Poison Dart • Corpse Spiders • Plague of Toads • Firebomb
Secondary Skills
Grasp of the Dead • Firebats • Haunt • Locust Swarm
Defensive Skills
Summon Zombie Dogs • Horrify • Spirit Walk • Hex
Terror
Soul Harvest • Sacrifice • Mass Confusion
Decay
Zombie Charger • Spirit Barrage • Acid Cloud • Wall of Death • Piranhas
Voodoo
Gargantuan • Big Bad Voodoo • Fetish Army
Passive Skills
Jungle Fortitude • Circle of Life • Spiritual Attunement • Gruesome Feast • Blood Ritual • Bad Medicine
Zombie Handler • Pierce the Veil • Spirit Vessel • Fetish Sycophants • Rush of Essence • Vision Quest
Fierce Loyalty • Grave Injustice • Tribal Rites • Confidence Ritual • Creeping Death • Swampland Attunement • Midnight Feast