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Spell
Death and Decay
Shadow
Death KnightWhile you remain within the area, your Heart Strike will hit up to additional targets.][]
Tooltip
While you remain within the area, your Heart Strike will hit up to additional targets.][]
How it works
Each cast of Death and Decay costs 1 Runes. It works on charges (charge category 1877); the charge count and recharge time live in a client table the datamine does not carry, so they are not stated here. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
Death and Decay is built from 4 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 3. Its area radius is 8 yards.
- Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 1. Its area radius is 8 yards.
- Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. It ticks every 1 sec, 10 times over the full 10 sec.
- Effect 4 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its base value is 26.
What it does
Death and Decay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec and has a Create Area Effect effect.
Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.
Spell Details
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Cost | 1 Runes |
| Range | 30 yards (Medium Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Charges | Charge category id 1877 (charge count not in the datamine) |
| Duration | 10 sec |
| Effect #1 | Dummy (3) Value: 3 Radius: 8 yards |
| Effect #2 | Dummy (3) Value: 1 Radius: 8 yards |
| Effect #3 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 226 Period: every 1 sec |
| Effect #4 | Create Area Effect (179) Value: 26 Misc value: 4485 |
Raw client values from the current retail game build. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.
Used by
Where is this spell used?
Death and Decay appears in: 1 skill line.
Skill lines
- Death Knight (Death Knight), learned automaticallySkill line
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Death Knight spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 46 separate Spell records named "Death and Decay". This page is record #43265. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #34642 | cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #37788 | cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #39658 | cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #52212 | duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #53721 | effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #56359 | cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #60160 | effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #60953 | effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #61112 | effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #61603 | effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #71001 | effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #79887 | effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip text | A 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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