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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 Coil

Spell

Death Coil

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant castMedium/Long Range

Fire a blast of unholy energy, causing Shadow damage to an enemy target or healing damage from a friendly Undead target.

Death Coil

Tooltip

Fire a blast of unholy energy, causing Shadow damage to an enemy target or healing damage from a friendly Undead target. Refunds 20 runic power when used to heal.

How it works

Each cast of Death Coil costs 40 Runic Power. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 167.

What it does

Death Coil is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards.

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
Range40 yards (Medium/Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 167

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 Coil appears in: 1 skill line.

Skill lines

  • Death Knight (Death Knight), learned automaticallySkill line

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

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 38 separate Spell records named "Death Coil". This page is record #47541. 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
#41070duration: 3 sec; effect types: Health Leech, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#44142duration: 3 sec; effect types: Health Leech, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#46283duration: 3 sec; effect types: Health Leech, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47632effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47633effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#50668effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#52375different tooltip textA variant record
#52376school: Physical; effect types: effect 77; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#53769effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#55209effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#55210effect types: effect 136; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#55320effect types: School Damage; 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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