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Death KnightTooltip
Spreads existing Blood Plague and Frost Fever infections from your target to all other enemies within 10 yards.
How it works
Each cast of Pestilence costs 1 Power (20). Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 3. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.
Pestilence is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
- Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 5 yards.
- Effect 3 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name. Its area radius is 10 yards.
What it does
Pestilence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. The client files the whole spell under the infected 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
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Cost | 1 Power (20) |
| Range | 5 yards (Combat Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Mechanic | Infected |
| Dispel type | Dispel type id 3 |
| Proc chance | Always |
| Effect #1 | Dummy (3) |
| Effect #2 | Dummy (3) Radius: 5 yards |
| Effect #3 | Effect 77 Radius: 10 yards |
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?
Pestilence appears in: 1 talent.
Talents
- Blood Boil for Death Knight (Blood, Frost, Unholy)Talent
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Blood spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 9 separate Spell records named "Pestilence". This page is record #50842. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.
| Record | What differs from this record | Likely reason |
|---|---|---|
| #191729 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #233614 | journal encounter: Malificus; effect types: none | A different caster |
| #233631 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #277234 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #316278 | used by: Cast by Pestilence; effect types: none | A helper record another spell casts |
| #316279 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #327093 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #333413 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #344716 | effect types: none | A 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.
Comments
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