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Death and Decay

Spell

Death and Decay

Shadow

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2 secMedium Range

Invokes the malignant power of death and decay, inflicting 18 Shadow damage every 1 sec to all enemies of the selected area for 10 sec.

Death and Decay

Tooltip

Invokes the malignant power of death and decay, inflicting 18 Shadow damage every 1 sec to all enemies of the selected area for 10 sec.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Death and Decay is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it 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

SchoolShadow
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 33936

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 #34642. 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
#37788duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#39658duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43265used by: Death Knight; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Apply Aura, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different owner
#52212used by: Death Knight; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different owner
#53721cast time: instant; 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
#60160cast time: instant; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60953cast time: instant; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61112cast time: instant; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61603cast time: instant; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71001cast time: instant; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79887cast time: instant; 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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