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Raise Dead

Spell

Raise Dead

Physical

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Death Knight

Instant castMedium Range

Raises a Ghoul to fight by your side.

Raise Dead

Tooltip

Raises a Ghoul to fight by your side. If no humanoid corpse that yields experience or honor is available, you must supply Corpse Dust to complete the spell. You can have a maximum of one Ghoul at a time. Lasts 1 min.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Summon (effect type 28). Its base value is 1. Its area radius is 0.5 yards.

What it does

Raise Dead is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 1 min. When cast it summons a creature in a 0.5 yard radius.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration1 min
Effect #1Summon (28)
Value: 1
Misc value: 26125, 2974
Radius: 0.5 yards

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 69 separate Spell records named "Raise Dead". This page is record #79905. 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
#48597school: Shadow; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#48605school: Shadow; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61A different effect setup
#51516duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#51517used by: Cast by Raise Dead; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#52150duration: until cancelled; effect types: Summon Pet; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#58814duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, DummyA different effect setup
#58815used by: Cast by Raise Dead; duration: 90 sec; effect types: Dummy, Summon, effect 77A helper record another spell casts
#69350duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#69431duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#69562school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 2 min; different tooltip textA variant record
#71769school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#72376used by: Cast by Raise Dead; school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: DummyA 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.

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