Soulstone use?

I've played a Night Elf Hunter and a Human Warrior to 85 now and have created a Gnome Warlock who is now level 49.

The whole Soulstone thing is baffling. How, exactly, are you supposed to use it? Everything I've read online says it will resurrect your character or a friendly player and it seems as if I'm supposed to 'assign it' to the character I want to help. But do you do that while he's still alive and if so, how? I've tried highlighting him and clicking on it while he lives, but all that gets me is a resurrection he doesn't need. If I do the highlight and assign thing, then if he's killed, it does nothing. What am I doing wrong?|||Make a soulstone. Then, while you have another player targeted, use it by right-clicking. After a casting time, that player will have the soulstone cast upon him, and when he dies, he can use it. You can see that by a buff that has appeared on the player.

The bit "all that gets me is a resurrection he doesn't need" I don't understand. I think you are under the impression that a soulstone actively resurrects someone. That's not the case. You use a soulstone to put a buff on a player, so that he can resurrect himself at the spot where he died, as long as the buff is active.

So it only makes sense to use a soulstone on a character able to resurrect others - in general, soulstones are cast upon the healer.|||I think I understand better now. So is it then not possible to cast/use the soulstone on my Warlock himself? I've been soloing him.|||If you're playing solo, sure, why not? You can soulstone yourself in exactly the same way and save yourself a corpse run when you die. Just make sure to not do that in a dungeon with a party.|||It gives him a resurrection that he may need in the future. E.g. if tank or healer dies and they resurrect and try and finish the fight.|||Quote:








It gives him a resurrection that he may need in the future. E.g. if tank or healer dies and they resurrect and try and finish the fight.




Then I'm doing something wrong. Here's what I do: I highlight him with a left click, then right click on the soulstone. It does that whirling sort of thing and then shows in the action bar space that it's been used. But when he dies, it doesn't resurrect him, not at all, not when I right click it or anything. And I don't understand why!

If I don't try somehow to 'cast' it on him, then does the game assume that when he's soloing it's automatically going to resurrect him? So that in that case I just leave it sitting in his bag until he dies and use it then?|||Quote:








Then I'm doing something wrong. Here's what I do: I highlight him with a left click, then right click on the soulstone. It does that whirling sort of thing and then shows in the action bar space that it's been used. But when he dies, it doesn't resurrect him, not at all, not when I right click it or anything. And I don't understand why!




I'm still not sure if I understand this correctly. When you actually "soulstoned" someone, the soul stone shouldn't even be in your bags anymore.

You make a soulstone first, with your spell "Create soulstone" from your spell book (http://www.wowhead.com/spell=693). That soulstone is then a physical item in your bags, with a green "Use:" text, looking like this: http://www.wowhead.com/item=5232.

There is also an explanation on the comments from that last link:


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Use the spell in your spellbook to create a soulstone. You will see a Soulstone popup in your inventory. Select your target, Either you or someone else, and right click the soulstone in your bag.( You can also drag the stone to your action bar and just click on it from your action bar so everytime you create one you don't have to open your bags and find it.) There ya go. Now when the target that was soulstoned dies, where it says release spirit there will be another option to use soulstone. whne the person soulstoned clicks use soulstone BAM they are back alive. If you chose to not use the soulstone and just release spirit you lose the soulstone, so it is better to just use it anyway.




If you select a party member and right click that physical soulstone (not your spell), he will have a buff on him for the next 15 minutes, telling him that he will be able to use a soulstone when he dies. When he dies, he will have the option to "release spirit" like normally, or to "use soulstone" to revive immediately and on the spot.

Two possibilities for this to go wrong: the other player doesn't know that he is soul stoned and/or accidently presses "release spirit", in which case the soulstone buff is lost. But that's quite unlikely. The second possibility is that 15 minutes have past and he lost his buff already, but then you can just recast.

Just check the player in question and see that he has the buff.


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If I don't try somehow to 'cast' it on him, then does the game assume that when he's soloing it's automatically going to resurrect him? So that in that case I just leave it sitting in his bag until he dies and use it then?




Here, I am completely lost. I don't have a clue what you mean.|||Quote:








I'm still not sure if I understand this correctly. When you actually "soulstoned" someone, the soul stone shouldn't even be in your bags anymore.

You make a soulstone first, with your spell "Create soulstone" from your spell book (http://www.wowhead.com/spell=693). That soulstone is then a physical item in your bags, with a green "Use:" text, looking like this: http://www.wowhead.com/item=5232.

There is also an explanation on the comments from that last link:



If you select a party member and right click that physical soulstone (not your spell), he will have a buff on him for the next 15 minutes, telling him that he will be able to use a soulstone when he dies. When he dies, he will have the option to "release spirit" like normally, or to "use soulstone" to revive immediately and on the spot.

Two possibilities for this to go wrong: the other player doesn't know that he is soul stoned and/or accidently presses "release spirit", in which case the soulstone buff is lost. But that's quite unlikely. The second possibility is that 15 minutes have past and he lost his buff already, but then you can just recast.

Just check the player in question and see that he has the buff.



Here, I am completely lost. I don't have a clue what you mean.




OK, now you have given me some information I got nowhere else. I don't group this guy (not yet, at least) but am questing solo. What I really wanted to know was how to soulstone him so he could resurrect. And you've told me that essentially I'm doing the right thing, BUT what I didn't know before your response is that the buff only lasts fifteen minutes. That's where I've gone wrong, in that I've assumed it lasted as long as he was still alive. Obviously I've tried to resurrect him after the buff was gone.

I'm assuming, therefore, that I could 'create soulstone-buff-buff wears off-create soulstone-buff again' endlessly as he's doing his solo quests.

So many thanks, because now I think I've got it straight.|||Unless I wrong, you don't resurrect them, they have the option to rez themselves or rez at the spirit caller the normal way.

To give them the buff they have to be in a party or raid group with yourself.

I only use them (on myself) occasionally whilst solo questing, such as when I'm trying a difficult boss etc... 15 minutes is too short for anything else.

Besides I don't often want to rez next to the thing that just killed me with half my health already gone.|||Quote:








Unless I wrong, you don't resurrect them, they have the option to rez themselves or rez at the spirit caller the normal way.

To give them the buff they have to be in a party or raid group with yourself.

I only use them (on myself) occasionally whilst solo questing, such as when I'm trying a difficult boss etc... 15 minutes is too short for anything else.

Besides I don't often want to rez next to the thing that just killed me with half my health already gone.




Very true. I'd rather res at the spirit and wait out the res sickness. I'm not finding this Soulstone really very useful. Or maybe the way it works just isn't the way I'd been hoping for. I'll save it for later on when he's grouped.