Shadow Word: Death
340 Mana30 yd range
Instant18 sec cooldown

A word of dark binding that inflicts 444 to 472 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 56

Learned from

Priest trainer
Priest spell of the Shadow tree, learned at level 56.
Changed by
Early Demise · talent

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Scaling

As spell power grows, per cast
Spell powerShadow Word: Death
0458
250565
500673
750780
1,000887

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

444–472 + 42.9% × Spell power

Damage per cast
458
Per second
3051.5 sec global cooldown
Per mana
1.35

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