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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)
Sudden Death

Spell

Sudden Death

Physical

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Warrior

Instant castSelf Only

Your melee hits have a chance of allowing the use of Execute regardless of the target's health state.

Sudden Death

Tooltip

Your melee hits have a chance of allowing the use of Execute regardless of the target's health state.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met. The aura is spent after 1 procs.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 262.

What it does

Sudden Death is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Proc charges1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 262

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 4 separate Spell records named "Sudden Death". This page is record #52437. 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
#29725subtext: Rank 2; used by: Talent: Warrior; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#280721effect types: noneA different effect setup
#280776effect 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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