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Fatal Wound

Spell

Fatal Wound

Physical

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Instant castVision Range

Delivers a fatal wound for 174 Physical damage.

Fatal Wound

Tooltip

Delivers a fatal wound for 174 Physical damage. Deals 50% increased damage to targets below 25% health.

How it works

Fatal Wound is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 174.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 50.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 25.

What it does

Fatal Wound is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 174).

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

SchoolPhysical
Range100 yards (Vision Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 174
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 50
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 25

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

Fatal Wound sounds

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

RendTargetSoundKit 3134

  1. Rendtarget0.7s · ID 568003 · 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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 9 separate Spell records named "Fatal Wound". This page is record #18206. 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
#10373effect values: 311, 50, 25 (this record: 174, 50, 25)Different tuning
#16411effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21140effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#69209used by: Cast by Singed Vis'kag the Bloodletter; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#69210used by: Cast by Tempered Vis'kag the Bloodletter; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#166625used by: Cast by Amateur Soldier; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#454793used by: Cast by Fatal Wound; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#454794effect 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 sighted3 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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