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Death and Decay

Spell

Death and Decay

Shadow

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Instant cast3 sec cooldownTower 100

73.5853 Shadow damage inflicted every 2 sec to all targets in the affected area for 10 sec.

Death and Decay

Tooltip

73.5853 Shadow damage inflicted every 2 sec to all targets in the affected area for 10 sec.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 73.5853 per tick. Its area radius is 5 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 5 times over the full 10 sec (367.93 base in total).

What it does

Death and Decay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards, a 3 sec cooldown and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 5 yard radius every 2 sec.

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 (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown3 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 73.5853
Radius: 5 yards
Period: every 2 sec

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 46 separate Spell records named "Death and Decay". This page is record #61603. 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; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37788cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect values: 11.02 (this record: 73.59); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#39658cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect values: 18.6 (this record: 73.59); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#43265used by: Death Knight; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Apply Aura, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different owner
#52212used by: Death Knight; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different owner
#53721effect values: 10 (this record: 73.59); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#56359cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60160effect values: 1.24 (this record: 73.59)Different tuning
#60953effect values: 2.47 (this record: 73.59)Different tuning
#61112effect values: 4.33 (this record: 73.59)Different tuning
#71001effect values: 19.27 (this record: 73.59)Different tuning
#79887effect values: 5 (this record: 73.59); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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