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Raise Dead

Spell

Raise Dead

Physical

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Death Knight

Instant cast3 min cooldownMedium Range

Raises a Ghoul to fight by your side.

Raise Dead

Tooltip

Raises a Ghoul to fight by your side. If no humanoid corpse that yields experience or honor is available, you must supply Corpse Dust to complete the spell. You can have a maximum of one Ghoul at a time. Lasts 1 min.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is Summon (effect type 28). Its base value is 1. Its area radius is 0.5 yards.

What it does

Raise Dead is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards, a 3 min cooldown and effects that last 1 min. When cast it summons a creature in a 0.5 yard radius.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown3 min
Global cooldownNone
Duration1 min
Effect #1Summon (28)
Value: 1
Misc value: 26125, 829
Radius: 0.5 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?

Raise Dead appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

  • Raise Dead for Death Knight (Blood, Frost, Unholy)Talent

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 69 separate Spell records named "Raise Dead". This page is record #46585. 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
#46584used by: Unholy Death Knight; duration: none; effect types: effect 77, DummyA different owner
#47505duration: none; effect types: effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47527school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#47532duration: none; effect types: effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47596duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47597duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47598duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47599duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47616duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47617duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47618duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47619duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 61; 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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