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Death Strike

Spell

Death Strike

Physical

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Death Knight

Instant castCombat Range

Focuses dark power into a strike with both weapons, that deals a total of Physical damage and heals you for 20.2% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec, minimum 7.1% of maximum health.

Death Strike

Tooltip

Focuses dark power into a strike with both weapons, that deals a total of Physical damage and heals you for 20.2% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec, minimum 7.1% of maximum health.

How it works

Each cast of Death Strike costs 45 Runic Power. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Death Strike is built from 4 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 1.761 times attack power.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 20.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 7.
  4. Effect 4 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 5.

What it does

Death Strike is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage.

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

SchoolPhysical
Cost45 Runic Power
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 1.761
Chain targets: 1
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 20
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 7
Effect #4Dummy (3)
Value: 5

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 Strike appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

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.

  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 1.5312 to 1.761 (patch 12.1.5)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 12 separate Spell records named "Death Strike". This page is record #49998. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#45470effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#53639school: Shadow; duration: 21 sec; effect types: effect 121, Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71489effect types: effect 121, Weapon % Damage, effect 136; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#196752school: Frost; effect types: Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278223subtext: Rank 2; school: Fire; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#282160effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#282751effect types: effect 136A different effect setup
#283525effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283526effect types: effect 136; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#290550effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295906effect types: School Damage; 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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