Death Pact

Death Pact

What it does

Death Pact is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 10) in a 100 yard radius.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell facts

SchoolShadow

Cast timeInstant

EffectHealth Leech

RangeAnywhere

Spell ID17471

Datamined from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.

Spell Details

School	Shadow
Range	50000 yards (Anywhere)
Cast time	Instant
Proc chance	Always
Effect #1	Health Leech (9) Value: 10 Spell power coefficient: 1 Radius: 100 yards

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Downloads

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precastshadowmagiclow (Precast Shadow Low) MP3 · 156 KB
precastshadowmagiclow (Precast Shadow Low) OGG · 32 KB
shadowcast (SPELL_Shadow_Cast) MP3 · 19 KB
shadowcast (SPELL_Shadow_Cast) OGG · 9 KB
beastsoothe (BeastSoothe) MP3 · 55 KB
beastsoothe (BeastSoothe) OGG · 18 KB
Background JPG · 61 KB

Sounds

Death Pact sounds

The sounds the game plays when Death Pact 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

Precastshadowmagiclow6.6s · ID 569424 · spells
MP3 iPhone Discord Original

SPELL_Shadow_CastSoundKit 2560

Shadowcast0.8s · ID 569766 · spells/cast
MP3 iPhone Discord Original

BeastSootheSoundKit 3178

Beastsoothe2.5s · ID 568719 · spells
MP3 iPhone Discord Original

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.

Where it comes from

Where is this spell used?

Death Pact appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

Raise DeadTriggers this spell

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

The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Death Pact". This page is record #17471. 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
#48743	used by: Talent: Death Knight; effect types: none	A different owner
#318787	used by: Cast by Death Pact; effect types: none	A helper record another spell casts
#318789	effect types: none	A different effect setup
#443609	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.

Other versions

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70338, 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