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Death Touch

Spell

Death Touch

Holy

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Instantly Kills the target.

Death Touch

Tooltip

Instantly Kills the target. I hope you feel good about yourself now.....

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Instakill (effect type 1). Its base value is 3.5.

What it does

Death Touch is a Holy spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it kills the target outright.

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

SchoolHoly
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Instakill (1)
Value: 3.5

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Death Touch". This page is record #5. 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
#68131school: Physical; duration: 0.0 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#68132school: Physical; effect values: 0 (this record: 3.5)Different tuning
#292368effect values: 0 (this record: 3.5)Different tuning
#296545used by: Cast by Bloody End; school: Physical; effect values: 0 (this record: 3.5)A helper record another spell casts

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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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