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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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Warlock

Instant castMedium Range

Inflicts 80 Shadow damage.

Death Coil

Tooltip

Inflicts 80 Shadow damage. The caster gains 100% of the damage caused in health.

How it works

Each cast of Death Coil costs 200 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 80. It scales with 0.214 times spell power.

What it does

Death Coil is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 80).

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
Cost200 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 80
Spell power coefficient: 0.214

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 38 separate Spell records named "Death Coil". This page is record #50668. 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
#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
#47541subtext: Rank 1; used by: Death Knight; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#47632effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47633effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#52375subtext: Rank 1; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#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
#56362effect 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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