Summon Felhunter

Summon Felhunter
	Summon Felhunter; Level 23 warlock ability; 1 Soul Shard; 6 sec cast; Summons a Felhunter under your command, able to disrupt the spell casts of your enemies.;
Properties
Class	Warlock
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	23

For lore about the felhunter, see felhound. For the similar demon, see felstalker.

The base felhunter.

Summon Felhunter is a warlock ability that summons a Felhunter to serve as the warlock's minion. The felhunter is adept at shutting down spell casters, as it possesses the ability to not only interupt a target, but also devour beneficial magic effects.

Abilities

Ability	Level

[Devour Magic]	23
[Shadow Bite]	23
[Spell Lock]	[Command Demon]

Appearances

Felhunter

1: Unlocked by default.
2: Defeating the final boss of a Time Rift.
3: Drops from the Felhounds of Sargeras encounter.

Dreadhound

4: Unlocked by the [Ritual of the Voidmaw Felhunter]. Found in Return to Karazhan in the library room right after killing the Mana Devourer.
5: Unlocked by the [Grimoire of the Xorothian Felhunter]. Found by transmogrifying [Zhar'doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer], going to the red portal after killing Portal Keeper Hasabel in Antorus, the Burning Throne and channeling the portal.

Quotes

The felhunter does not speak as it is just a demonic dog; as such the only noises it makes when ordered to do something are various forms of growling.

Notes

Prior to patch 10.1.5, the Felhunter spell could be replaced with [Summon Observer] through the [Glyph of the Observer], allowing the warlock to have an observer as a demon instead. Functionally similar, the two were ultimately decided to be separated rather than kept together as many of the other demons were with their 'upgraded' counterparts. This was justified by Blizzard by stating they wished for the demons to keep roughly the same 'silohuette' as each other between their appearances, and the observer was dramatically different than the felhunter.^[1] The observer later made a return as part of the customization options added to the temporary [Summon Darkglare] spell.

To make up for the lack of the observer, two new 'Dreadhound' felhunter models were also added to the felhunter, taking inspiration from the Felhounds of Sargeras.

In the RPG

This section contains information from the Warcraft RPG which is considered non-canon.

Felhunters are fel stalkers that have been specially trained by the Burning Legion to hunt, counter, and devour mortal spellcasters.

The most intelligent of fel stalkers are selected and trained specially to hunt spellcasters. They look much like a normal fel stalker, except for a golden band placed around one of their horns marking them as hunters. Normal fel stalkers prefer spellcasters, but fel hunters are so well-trained that they ignore melee opponents entirely in favor of spellcasters, especially arcane casters. A fel hunter has the same abilities as a fel stalker. It also manifests demonic spell-like abilities - brought out due to its higher intelligence, coupled with the intense training it undergoes to become an elite spellcaster killing machine.^[2]

Trivia

Felhunter concept art.

Despite being named the 'felhunter', the actual name of the demon is felhound. It is the only summonable demon that does not use the actual name of its race, instead a moniker.
When in water, the felhunter swims similarly to a shark using its tail.
The felhunter unmistakably resembles a Zergling from Starcraft, Warcraft's sister series.
The felhunter is often called a "fel puppy" by some players.
In the quest [35] An Unusual Tome, the warlock can ask the felhunter for information, but it only reacts much like your dog might to a command it doesn't understand.
The digestive tract of felhunters is unable to digest teeth.^[3]

Patch changes

Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Cast time is now 6 seconds (was 2.5 seconds). Now learned at level 23 (was 36).
Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): Damage increased by 15%.
Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Felhunter damage increased by 20%.
Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 36 (was 35).
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now costs 1 Soul Shard instead of mana. Cast time reduced to 2.5 seconds, down from 5. Model updated. Now learned at level 35 (was 29).
Hotfix (2015-07-21): Should now correctly require line-of-sight with its target to use the [Spell Lock] ability. Previously, it was incorrectly using line-of-sight with the Warlock instead.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now learned at level 29 (was 30).
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): No longer requires a [Soul Shard]. Cast time now 6 secs, down from 10. [Soulburn] effect added: Instant cast.
Patch 1.8.0 (2005-10-10): Has a new, unique sound effect.
Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Added.