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Scourge Strike

Spell

Scourge Strike

Shadow

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Instant castTower 100

A blast of scourge power strikes the target, instantly killing it.

Scourge Strike

Tooltip

A blast of scourge power strikes the target, instantly killing it.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Instakill (effect type 1).

What it does

Scourge Strike is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. 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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Instakill (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 15 separate Spell records named "Scourge Strike". This page is record #28265. 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
#55090used by: Talent: Death Knight; effect types: School Damage, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different owner
#71488subtext: Rank 6; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#79909subtext: Rank 6; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#164330subtext: Rank 6; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#172680effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#213795school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#271141effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295879school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295882used by: Cast by Scourge Strike; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#295894used by: Cast by Scourge Strike; effect types: Energize; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#317234school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#400513school: Physical; effect types: effect 165; 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.

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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