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Shadow Word: Death

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Shadow Word: Death

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Instant castSelf Only

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

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met. The aura is spent after 1 procs.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Shadow Word: Death is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Shadow damage.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Proc charges1
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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.

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