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Blood Strike

Spell

Blood Strike

Physical

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Death Knight

Instant castCombat Range

Instantly strike the enemy, causing 40% weapon damage plus 260.

Blood Strike

Tooltip

Instantly strike the enemy, causing 40% weapon damage plus 260. Damage is increased by 12.5.1% for each of your diseases on the target.

How it works

Each cast of Blood Strike costs 1 Power (20). Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

Blood Strike is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 121, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 260.
  2. Effect 2 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 40.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 125.

What it does

Blood Strike is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 40).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
Cost1 Power (20)
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Effect 121
Value: 260
Effect #2Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 40
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 125

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 7 separate Spell records named "Blood Strike". This page is record #45902. 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
#52374subtext: Rank 1; effect types: effect 121, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#52377effect types: effect 77; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59130subtext: Rank 1; effect types: effect 121, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#60945subtext: Rank 6; effect types: effect 121, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#61696effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#220890effect 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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