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Shadow Word: Death

Spell

Shadow Word: Death

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Instant cast1 sec cooldownMedium Range

Inflicts Shadow damage to an enemy, but deals equal damage to the caster.

Shadow Word: Death

Tooltip

Inflicts Shadow damage to an enemy, but deals equal damage to the caster.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Shadow Word: Death is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 125.
  2. Effect 2 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 125.

What it does

Shadow Word: Death is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and a 1 sec cooldown. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 125).

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 125
Effect #2Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 125

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 11 separate Spell records named "Shadow Word: Death". This page is record #56920. 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
#32379used by: Talent: Priest; effect types: School Damage, School Damage, Dummy, effect 77; different tooltip textA different owner
#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
#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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