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Death and Decay

Spell

Death and Decay

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Shadow spell for Death Knights, taught by Death Knight.

Death and Decay

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.083 times attack power. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Death and Decay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage in an 8 yard radius.

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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 0.083
Radius: 8 yards

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 KnightSkill line

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 46 separate Spell records named "Death and Decay". This page is record #52212. 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
#34642cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37788cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#39658cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43265duration: 10 sec; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Apply Aura, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#53721duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#56359cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60160duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60953duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61112duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61603duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71001duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79887duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA 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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