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Dying Wish

Dying Wish, a perk of Black Ops 4 Zombies: instead of going down, the player goes Berserk and invulnerable for nine seconds, then keeps one health while the perk recharges.

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Dying Wish is a perk of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies. When the player should go down, the perk sends them Berserk for nine seconds instead: they take no damage and their melee hits much harder, then they are left with one point of health. After that the perk has to recharge, for longer each time.

Overview

First appearanceVoyage of Despair, IX, Blood of the Dead and Classified, the launch maps of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, October 12, 2018

GamesBlack Ops 4

Cost4000 points5000 points as the Modifier perk

EffectInstead of going downnine seconds of Berserk, invulnerable with much stronger melee, then one health left. Cooldown longer after every use.

ModifierFull health when Berserk ends.

FamilyPerks of Black Ops 4 Zombies

UnlockAvailable from the start

In Black Ops 4 each player chooses four perks out of 18 before the game, in the Zombies Create-A-Class. The Aether maps sell them at four machines, Brew, Cola, Soda and Tonic; the Chaos maps at four statues of gods, Danu, Ra, Zeus and Odin, whose altars need no power. Dying Wish only appears in a game if a player has put it in their loadout.

In the First Room

Dying Wish is in a First Room only if an altar or a machine stands there and the player has assigned the perk to it. The books of the eight Black Ops 4 maps of the Hub place one in a single First Room.

Map	Game	What the book of the map says
Voyage of Despair	Black Ops 4	Forecastle: the Danu altar, a green statue of the goddess by the railing, to the right of the spawn, and the only perk of the First Room. It serves the perk the player placed there in the loadout, at the price of that perk. The book cites a recorded game where Dying Wish is bought there for 4000 points.

On the seven other maps, the books give no altar and no machine in the First Room. Those of IX and Ancient Evil mention a perk among the rewards of the banner challenges and of the Tributes of the Oracle, without saying which one.

The records of these maps are on the ZFRR leaderboards.

Effect, game by game

Dying Wish only exists in Black Ops 4, in a single version with two levels.

The perk

4000 points. The in-game description reads: “Instead of entering Last Stand the Player goes Berserk for 9 seconds. While Berserk, they are invulnerable and melee damage is greatly increased. Afterwards, the Player is left with 1 health. Cooldown increases with every use.” Fandom adds that the screen turns red during Berserk, and that the cooldown starts at 9 minutes and grows with each activation: it gives 9 minutes for the first recharge, 11 for the second and 14 for the third.

The Modifier

5000 points according to Fandom. The player comes out of Berserk with full health instead of one point.

Only one slot gives the Modifier: the Tonic machine on the Aether maps, the Odin statue on the Chaos maps. The perk bought there gains this extra effect once the player owns all four perks, which also speeds up reloading. In the three other slots, Dying Wish keeps its base effect alone.

Where to find it

Dying Wish is available on the eight maps of Black Ops 4; the book of each map says where its altars or machines stand.

The Dying Wish totem held in hand, a block topped by a horned helmet, the blue perk icon on its front, Dying Wish, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Zombies

Chaos maps

Voyage of Despair, IX, Dead of the Night and Ancient Evil. The perk is a Perk Vapor, taken at the statue of its slot.

Aether maps

Blood of the Dead, Classified, Alpha Omega and Tag der Toten. The perk is a traditional Perk-a-Cola, bought from the machine of its slot.

The other perks that only exist in Black Ops 4 are Timeslip, Electric Burst, Stone Cold Stronghold, Victorious Tortoise, Deadshot Dealer, Bandolier Bandit, Winter’s Wail, Ethereal Razor, Zombshell, Blood Wolf Bite, Blaze Phase and Secret Sauce.

Trivia

In Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7, “Dying Wish” is not this perk but a Major Augment of Quick Revive: on lethal damage the player becomes immune to all damage for a moment (2 seconds in Black Ops 6) and keeps 1 health, Quick Revive is removed, and it works up to three times. Fandom notes that it works much like the Black Ops 4 perk, with 2 seconds instead of 9.
Fandom reads the Chaos totem of Dying Wish as a Viking, a possible nod to the Norse berserkers who fought in a trance.
Dying Wish has no jingle of its own: on the Aether maps the machines play at random one of the “Wunderfizz” jingles written by Jack Wall.