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Death & Decay

Spell

Death & Decay

Shadow

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2 secMedium Range

Invokes the malignant power of death and decay, inflicting Shadow damage to all enemies in a selected area for 10 sec.

Death & Decay

Tooltip

Invokes the malignant power of death and decay, inflicting Shadow damage to all enemies in a selected area for 10 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Death & Decay costs 320 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 520.381 per tick. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 8 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 5 times over the full 10 sec (2601.9 base in total).

What it does

Death & Decay is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in an 8 yard radius every 2 sec.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Cost320 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration10 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 520.381
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 8 yards
Period: every 2 sec

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Death & Decay sounds

The sounds the game plays when Death & Decay is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.

Precast Shadow LowSoundKit 745

  1. Precastshadowmagiclow6.6s · ID 569424 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

SPELL_Shadow_CastSoundKit 2560

  1. Shadowcast0.8s · ID 569766 · spells/cast
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

DeathAndDecayLoopSoundKit 4854

  1. Deathanddecayloop5.0s · ID 568360 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 3 separate Spell records named "Death & Decay". This page is record #11433. 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
#31258effect types: noneA different effect setup
#39347effect 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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