Risen Ally

He lives to serve...sort of.

Risen Ghoul is a ghoul pet created from a corpse using the death knight's Raise Dead ability, which lasts for two minutes. If Raise Dead is cast on a friendly player corpse, that player will be presented with the option to control the ghoul for the duration of the spell. They can be sacrificed using the [Death Pact] ability to return health to the death knight. Alternatively, if the death knight has the [Master of Ghouls] talent the ghoul will have unlimited duration and be controllable by the death knight, acting like a hunter or warlock pet.

Abilities

Icon	Ability	Min Level	Description
	Claw	50	Claw the enemy, causing damage.
	Gnaw	50	Chew a limb off the target, stunning for 3 sec and dealing 90 to 110 damage.
	[Huddle]	50	Go into a defensive crouch, reducing the damage taken from melee attacks, ranged attacks and spells by 50% for 10 sec.
	[Leap]	1	Leap behind the targeted friend or enemy.

Glyphs

20

• Glyph of the Ghoul
• Major Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Your Ghoul receives an additional 40% of your Strength and 40% of your Stamina.
• Classes: Death Knight
• Requires Level 55
• Sell Price: 37 50

Glyph of the Ghoul was created with Inscription (350).

Materials required:

1x [Ethereal Ink]

1x [Resilient Parchment]

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Removed. Existing glyphs replaced with  [Glyph of Raise Dead].
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Additional Strength increased to 40% (was 20%), additional 40% of Stamina added.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

Trivia

Performing a /cower emote will cause him to roar at you, while performing a /glare emote will cause him to cower.

Bugs

• There has been an occasionally reported bug with ghoul pets where they freeze or disappear. Although not a great solution, apparently a work around is to get the ghoul killed in-game.

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB