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Touch of Death

Spell

Touch of Death

Shadow

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3 secMedium Range

Drains 70 health from an enemy, healing the caster for up to half that amount.

Touch of Death

Tooltip

Drains 70 health from an enemy, healing the caster for up to half that amount.

How it works

Each cast of Touch of Death costs 250 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 70. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Touch of Death is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 70).

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
Cost250 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 70
Spell power coefficient: 1

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

Touch of Death sounds

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

DeathCoiltargetSoundKit 743

  1. Deathcoiltarget2.2s · ID 568670 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Precast Shadow LowSoundKit 745

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

SPELL_Shadow_CastSoundKit 2560

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

MissileShadowLoopSoundKit 3015

  1. Shadowmissileloop4.0s · ID 569778 · spells/missile
    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 21 separate Spell records named "Touch of Death". This page is record #3108. 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
#54236effect types: noneA different effect setup
#115080effect types: noneA different effect setup
#124490effect types: noneA different effect setup
#131766effect types: noneA different effect setup
#212758effect types: noneA different effect setup
#229980effect types: noneA different effect setup
#290521used by: Cast by Touch of Death; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#320863effect types: noneA different effect setup
#322109used by: Monk; effect types: noneA different owner
#322111effect types: noneA different effect setup
#325095used by: Brewmaster Monk; effect types: noneA different owner
#325215used by: Windwalker Monk; effect types: noneA different owner

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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