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Touch of Death

Spell

Touch of Death

Shadow

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3 secMedium Range

Drains health from an enemy, healing the caster for up to half that amount.

Touch of Death

Tooltip

Drains health from an enemy, healing the caster for up to half that amount.

How it works

Each cast of Touch of Death costs 100 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 24. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Touch of Death is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 24).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Cost100 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3 sec
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 24
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. 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 21 separate Spell records named "Touch of Death". This page is record #3108. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#54236school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#115080school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#124490school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#131766school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect types: effect 165, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#212758effect types: noneA different effect setup
#229980effect types: noneA different effect setup
#290521used by: Cast by Touch of Death; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#320863effect types: noneA different effect setup
#322109used by: Monk; effect types: noneA different owner
#322111effect types: noneA different effect setup
#325095used by: Brewmaster Monk; effect types: noneA different owner
#325215used by: Windwalker Monk; effect types: noneA different owner

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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