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Soul Reaper

Spell

Soul Reaper

FrostShadow

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Death Knight

Instant cast15 sec cooldownCombat Range

Rupture the soul of your enemy, dealing (450% of Attack Power) Shadowfrost damage and causing the foe to take 20% increased damage from your diseases and minions for 8 sec.

Soul Reaper

Tooltip

Rupture the soul of your enemy, dealing (450% of Attack Power) Shadowfrost damage and causing the foe to take 20% increased damage from your diseases and minions for 8 sec.

Only usable on enemies below 35% maximum health.

Consumes up to 3 Lesser Ghoul stacks to summon them instantly.

How it works

Each cast of Soul Reaper costs 1 Runes. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Soul Reaper is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 4.5 times attack power.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). Its base value is 35. It triggers Soul Reaper.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 3.

What it does

Soul Reaper is a Frost and Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 5 yards and a 15 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Frost and Shadow damage. It also casts Soul Reaper (record #1241521).

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

SchoolFrost, Shadow
Cost1 Runes
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown15 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 4.5
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Value: 35
Trigger spell: Soul Reaper
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 3

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?

Soul Reaper appears in: 2 talents and 1 spell that casts it.

Talents

  • Soul Reaper for Death Knight (Blood, Frost, Unholy)Talent
  • Soul Reaper (a talent definition no current talent tree places)Talent

Spells that cast it

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

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 16 separate Spell records named "Soul Reaper". This page is record #343294. 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
#154514school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: effect 140, InstakillA different effect setup
#343295effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#362771journal encounter: Anduin Wrynn; school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#362772school: Physical; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#362773effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#362774school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#362775duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#362777effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#448229duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#459495used by: Cast by Soul Reaper; school: Shadow; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#459496school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#469180duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, 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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