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Spell
Death Coil
Shadow
Death KnightFires a blast of unholy energy at the target, causing (211.8% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to an enemy or healing an Undead ally for (463.8% of Attack Power) health.
Tooltip
Fires a blast of unholy energy at the target, causing (211.8% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to an enemy or healing an Undead ally for (463.8% of Attack Power) health.
Extends the duration of Dread Plague and Virulent Plague by 1.1 sec.
How it works
Each cast of Death Coil costs 30 Runic Power. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.
Death Coil is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
- Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 1000.
What it does
Death Coil is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards.
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 | 30 Runic Power |
| Range | 30 yards (Medium Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Proc chance | Always |
| Effect #1 | Dummy (3) |
| Effect #2 | Dummy (3) Value: 1000 |
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 Coil 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.
Build history
this spell Changelog
Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.
- Description updated (patch 12.1.0)
Related
More Death Knight spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 38 separate Spell records named "Death Coil". This page is record #47541. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #41070 | duration: 3 sec; effect types: Health Leech, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #44142 | duration: 3 sec; effect types: Health Leech, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #46283 | duration: 3 sec; effect types: Health Leech, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #47632 | effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #47633 | effect types: Heal; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #50668 | effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #52375 | subtext: Rank 1; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip text | A different rank or variant |
| #52376 | school: Physical; effect types: effect 77; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #53769 | effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #55209 | effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #55210 | effect types: effect 136; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #55320 | effect types: School Damage; 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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