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Death From Above

Spell

Death From Above

Frost

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Instant cast1 min cooldownSelf Only

Call down a Frost Wyrm, breathing icy death upon all enemies within 40 yards in front of you, dealing Frost damage, stunning enemies for 3 sec, and slowing movement speed by 40% for 8 sec.

Death From Above

Tooltip

Call down a Frost Wyrm, breathing icy death upon all enemies within 40 yards in front of you, dealing Frost damage, stunning enemies for 3 sec, and slowing movement speed by 40% for 8 sec. Deals 20% increased damage to the first enemy struck, and 60% reduced damage against player controlled targets.

How it works

Each cast of Death From Above costs 40 Runic Power. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Death From Above is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its base value is 40.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 20.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 60.

What it does

Death From Above is a Frost spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 1 min cooldown and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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

SchoolFrost
Cost40 Runic Power
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 min
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Value: 40
Misc value: 44702
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 20
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 60

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 43 separate Spell records named "Death From Above". This page is record #1314847. 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
#311774used by: Cast by Death From Above; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#1216709journal encounter: The Gobfather; effect types: noneA different caster
#1216734effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1216735effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1216743used by: Cast by Death From Above; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#1216747used by: Cast by Death From Above; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#1227426effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1227430effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1244098used by: Cast by Death From Above; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#1250732effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1253310effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1277696used by: Cast by Death from Above; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts

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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