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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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Instant castMedium Range

10 Shadow damage modified by attack power inflicted every 1 sec to all targets in the affected area for 10 sec.

Death and Decay

Tooltip

10 Shadow damage modified by attack power inflicted every 1 sec to all targets in the affected area for 10 sec. Has a chance to cause affected targets to cower in fear.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 89. Its base value is 10 per tick. Its area radius is 5 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 10 times over the full 10 sec (100 base in total).

What it does

Death and Decay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 5 yard radius every 1 sec.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 89
Value: 10
Radius: 5 yards
Period: every 1 sec

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 46 separate Spell records named "Death and Decay". This page is record #53721. 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; different tooltip textA variant record
#37788cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#39658cast time: 2 sec; duration: 20 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#43265subtext: Rank 1; used by: Death Knight; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#52212used by: Death Knight; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different owner
#56359cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60160different tooltip textA variant record
#60953different tooltip textA variant record
#61112different tooltip textA variant record
#61603different tooltip textA variant record
#71001difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); 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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