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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 Grip

Spell

Death Grip

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant castLong Range

Harness the unholy energy that surrounds and binds all matter, inflicting 1200 Shadow damage and drawing the target toward the death knight.

Death Grip

Tooltip

Harness the unholy energy that surrounds and binds all matter, inflicting 1200 Shadow damage and drawing the target toward the death knight.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1200.

What it does

Death Grip is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 1200). The client files the whole spell under the gripped mechanic.

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
MechanicGripped
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1200

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 55 separate Spell records named "Death Grip". This page is record #61094. 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
#49576used by: Death Knight; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different owner
#51399school: Physical; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 114; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#53276school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#55719school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#57602school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#57603school: Physical; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#57604school: Physical; effect types: Jump to Destination; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#64429school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#64430used by: Cast by Death Grip; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#64431used by: Cast by Crippling Defeat; school: Physical; effect types: Jump to Destination; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#66017difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#70564school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, Trigger Spell; 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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