Priest ability · learned at level 40 · Shadow
Shadow Word: Death Rank 2
Shadow Word: DeathRank 2
205 Mana30 yd range
Instant15 sec cooldown
A word of dark binding that inflicts 368 to 391 Shadow damage to the target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 10% of your maximum health. [level-scaled values shown at level 45]
In Blizzard's notes
What Blizzard said about Shadow Word: Death, each line checked against the files.
- Not in the files
Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was always benefitting from the Early Demise talent regardless of the target's health %.
The files The health check is server logic. Neither Shadow Word: Death (1309636) nor Early Demise (1310076, 15/30% crit at or below 20% health) changed in 70170.
- Matches the files
Shadow Word: Death: Added as a baseline ability to all Priests at level 32. Deals instant Shadow damage to the target but if the target is not killed by this spell, the Priest takes 10% of their max health in damage. 15 second cooldown.
The files Rank 1 (1309595) is a trained Shadow spell at level 32 with a 15 sec cooldown. If the target survives, you take 10% of your maximum health (tooltip, effect value 10).
Shadow Word: DeathShadow Word: DeathClass deep dives: Priest and Warrior
History
- 69876 Sep 16First beta build we archived. No changes in the client files since.