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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)
Decimate

Spell

Decimate

Physical

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Reduce the current health of all nearby units to 5% of their maximum health.

Decimate

Tooltip

Reduce the current health of all nearby units to 5% of their maximum health.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Decimate is a Physical spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Physical damage.

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

SchoolPhysical
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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 27 separate Spell records named "Decimate". This page is record #28375. 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
#10268duration: 3 min; effect types: Apply Aura, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#13459school: Shadow; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#28374school: Nature; duration: 3 sec; effect types: effect 77, Apply Aura, effect 61A different effect setup
#51339school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#54426school: Nature; duration: 3 sec; effect types: effect 77, Apply Aura, effect 61A different effect setup
#71123school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: effect 77, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#126288effect types: noneA different effect setup
#165924used by: Cast by Decimate; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#165925effect types: noneA different effect setup
#165926effect types: noneA different effect setup
#165927effect types: noneA different effect setup
#166187effect 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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