Priest ability · learned at level 44 · Shadow

Devouring Plague Rank 4

Devouring PlagueRank 4

645 Mana30 yd range

Instant1 min cooldown

Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 488 Shadow damage over 24 sec. Damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster.

Game files · build 1.60.1.70245Read from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70245.

Compared with Classic

Classic tooltip

Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 544 Shadow damage over 24 sec. Damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster.

Data	Classic	Forever
effect 1 spell power coefficient	0.063	0.1
effect 1 value	68	61
cooldown	3 min	1 min

What Blizzard said about Devouring Plague, each line checked against the files.

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Devouring Plague can now correctly critically strike.
The files Build 70170 added the periodic-can-crit flag (Attributes_8 0x200) to all six Devouring Plague ranks (2944 to 19280).
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Devouring Plague: This ability is now available to all Priests at level 20, regardless of race.
The files Rank 1 (2944) is learned at level 20 and every race can learn it (race mask -1; Classic Era: 16, Undead only).
Devouring Plague Devouring Plague Class deep dives: Priest and Warrior