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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)
Death and Decay

Spell

Death and Decay

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

This ability produces a high amount of threat.

Death and Decay

Tooltip

This ability produces a high amount of threat.

How it works

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

What it does

Death and Decay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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?

Death and Decay appears in: 1 skill line.

Skill lines

  • Death KnightSkill line

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 46 separate Spell records named "Death and Decay". This page is record #52212. 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
#34642cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37788cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#39658cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43265subtext: Rank 1; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#53721duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#56359cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60160duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60953duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61112duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61603duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71001difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#79887effect 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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