Priest ability · learned at level 60 · Shadow
Devouring Plague Rank 6
Devouring PlagueRank 6
985 Mana30 yd range
Instant1 min cooldown
Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 848 Shadow damage over 24 sec. Damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster.
Compared with Classic
Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 904 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 | 113 | 106 |
| cooldown | 3 min | 1 min |
In Blizzard's notes
What Blizzard said about Devouring Plague, each line checked against the files.
- Matches the files
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).
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History
- 70170 Oct 1
- an internal setting the client doesn't explain
- 69876 Sep 16First beta build we archived