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Cheat Death

Spell

Cheat Death

Physical

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Warlock

Instant castSelf Only

When your health drops below 20%, for the next 5 seconds healing spells cast on you help you to Cheat Death, increasing healing done by up to 160.

Cheat Death

Tooltip

When your health drops below 20%, for the next 5 seconds healing spells cast on you help you to Cheat Death, increasing healing done by up to 160.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. Its base value is 100. It triggers Cheat Death.

What it does

Cheat Death is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Cheat Death (record #28846).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Value: 100
Trigger spell: Cheat Death

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Used by

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Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Cheat Death". This page is record #28845. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#28846used by: Cast by Cheat Death; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#31230used by: Talent: Rogue; effect types: noneA different owner
#31231effect types: noneA different effect setup

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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