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Desecrate

Spell

Desecrate

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Consume your Death and Decay and crush your enemies within, dealing 2500% of its remaining damage instantly.

Desecrate

Tooltip

Consume your Death and Decay and crush your enemies within, dealing 2500% of its remaining damage instantly. Applies or bursts 50-2 Festering Wounds, depending on whether the target is already affected by Festering Wounds.

Grants you the benefits of standing in Death and Decay.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.2 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 1.

What it does

Desecrate is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.2 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 1

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 17 separate Spell records named "Desecrate". This page is record #1234698. 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
#185590journal encounter: Archimonde; school: Fire; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 1); different tooltip textA different caster
#317547cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#345007school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 1); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#345008school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#365576duration: 24 hr; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#365905cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#365912school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#368277school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#368280effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#1232346effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1234559used by: Talent: Death Knight; school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#1234689school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply 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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