Shadow Word: Death
250 Mana30 yd range
Instant18 sec cooldown

A word of dark binding that inflicts 402 to 426 Shadow damage to the target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 30% of your maximum health.

Early Demise's bonus applies only when the target is within its low-health threshold.

Priest · Shadow · learned at level 48

Learned from

Priest trainer
Priest spell of the Shadow tree, learned at level 48.
Changed by
Early Demise · talent

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Scaling

As spell power grows, per cast
Spell powerShadow Word: Death
0414
250521
500629
750736
1,000843

Shadow Word: Death adds 42.9% of your spell power to its damage.

402–426 + 42.9% × Spell power

Damage per cast
414
Per second
2761.5 sec global cooldown
Per mana
1.66

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