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Shadow Word: Death

Spell

Shadow Word: Death

Shadow

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Instant castMedium Range

Inflicts 2150 Shadow damage to an enemy, but deals equal damage to the caster.

Shadow Word: Death

Tooltip

Inflicts 2150 Shadow damage to an enemy, but deals equal damage to the caster.

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Word: Death costs 110 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Shadow Word: Death is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2150. It scales with 1 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2150.

What it does

Shadow Word: Death is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 2150).

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

SchoolShadow
Cost110 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2150
Spell power coefficient: 1
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 2150

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 11 separate Spell records named "Shadow Word: Death". This page is record #41375. 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
#32379used by: Talent: Priest; different tooltip textA different owner
#32409duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47697no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#51818no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#56920no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#347159effect types: noneA different effect setup
#361460effect types: noneA different effect setup
#369658effect types: noneA different effect setup
#448533effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1240008effect 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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