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Wrath of the Lich KingWrath of the Lich King era data from Blizzard's titan client, build 3.80.2.69874Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · The Burning Crusade · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Cheat Death

Spell

Cheat Death

Physical

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Rogue

Instant castSelf Only

You have a 100% chance that an attack which would otherwise kill you will instead reduce you to 10% of your maximum health.

Cheat Death

Tooltip

You have a 100% chance that an attack which would otherwise kill you will instead reduce you to 10% of your maximum health. In addition, all damage taken will be reduced by up to 90% for 3 sec (modified by resilience). This effect cannot occur more than once per minute.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 69. Its base value is 100.

What it does

Cheat Death is a spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 69
Value: 100
Misc value: 127

Raw client values from the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Cheat Death appears in: 2 talents.

Talents

  • Cheat Death for Rogue (Assassination, Outlaw, Subtlety)Talent
  • Cheat Death (a talent definition no current talent tree places)Talent

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

Related

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Cheat Death". This page is record #31230. 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
#28845different tooltip textA variant record
#28846used by: Cast by Cheat Death; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#31231effect types: Dummy; 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.

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