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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)
Corpse Explosion

Spell

Corpse Explosion

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant cast5 sec cooldownMedium Range

Cause a corpse or your ghoul to explode for 166 Shadow damage to all enemies.

Corpse Explosion

Tooltip

Cause a corpse or your ghoul to explode for 166 Shadow damage to all enemies. Will use a nearby corpse if the target is not a corpse. Does not affect mechanical or elemental corpses.

How it works

Each cast of Corpse Explosion costs 40 Runic Power. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Corpse Explosion is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 166.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 50444. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Corpse Explosion is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and a 5 sec cooldown.

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

SchoolShadow
Cost40 Runic Power
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 166
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 50444
Radius: 10 yards

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.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 23 separate Spell records named "Corpse Explosion". This page is record #49158. 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
#17616cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43999school: Physical; effect types: effect 77, InstakillA different effect setup
#53717school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61614used by: Cast by Corpse Explosion; duration: until cancelled; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#81876effect types: noneA different effect setup
#150589effect types: noneA different effect setup
#150596effect types: noneA different effect setup
#151224effect types: noneA different effect setup
#184003effect types: noneA different effect setup
#184005effect types: noneA different effect setup
#184018effect types: noneA different effect setup
#262424effect types: noneA 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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