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Shadow Word: Death

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Shadow Word: Death

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Instant castLong Range

A word of dark binding that inflicts (85% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to your target.

Shadow Word: Death

Tooltip

A word of dark binding that inflicts (85% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to your target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 5% of your maximum health.

Damage increased by 250% to targets below 50% health.

Generates Insanity.

How it works

It works on charges (charge category 1169); the charge count and recharge time live in a client table the datamine does not carry, so they are not stated here. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 1.

Shadow Word: Death is built from 6 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 2.55 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.85 times spell power.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 20.
  4. Effect 4 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 150.
  5. Effect 5 is Energize (effect type 30).
  6. Effect 6 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 5.

What it does

Shadow Word: Death is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage and restores a resource.

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
ChargesCharge category id 1169 (charge count not in the datamine)
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 2.55
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 0.85
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 20
Effect #4Effect 77
Value: 150
Effect #5Energize (30)
Misc value: 13
Effect #6Dummy (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?

Shadow Word: Death appears in: 1 talent and 1 taught spell.

Talents

Taught spells

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 11 separate Spell records named "Shadow Word: Death". This page is record #32379. 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
#32409effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#41375effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47697effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#51818effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#56920effect types: Weapon % Damage, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#347159effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#361460subtext: Offensive; effect types: School Damage, Dummy, effect 0; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#369658effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#448533cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: InstakillA different effect setup
#1240008effect types: DummyA 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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