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Plague Strike

Plague Strike

1 Unholy	Melee Range

Instant
Requires Death Knight
Requires level 55

Requires Melee Weapon
A vicious strike that deals 50% Physical damage and infects the target with Blood Plague

Unholy
and Frost Fever

Blood Plague
A disease that deals Shadow damage every 3 sec for 30 sec.

Unholy
Frost Fever
A disease that deals Frost damage every 3 sec for 30 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

1 Unholy

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Normalized Weapon Damage
Value: 1

Effect #2

Dummy
Server-side script

Effect #3

Weapon Damage - %
Value: 50

Flags

Requires main hand weapon

Guides

Blood Death Knight Guide

Death Knight DPS Guide
(Frost/Unholy)

Overview of
Tanking and
All Tank Specs

Unholy Death Knight
PvP Guide (Gearing
up, Pressure and Utility)

Warlords of Draenor Death
Knight Changes

Comments

Comment by nemisi

is this buffed by talents?like crypt feaver

Comment by frmorrison

This is an important DK abilitiy, since it puts up a disease for your Blood Strikes to do more damage.

Comment by d3nyd

This is an important strike no matter what spec you are. This is the most-damaging disease-causing strike a DK has, and the cost is that so you can either choose to do another Plague Strike or use Degeneration and then Obliterate (which is obviously the better choice).

The talent to improve this strike's damage is also high enough in the Unholy tree that you can almost always afford to spend points to get it.

Comment by enigma3d

Why does this skill say Requires 10 Runic Power now? I didn't see anything about that on the beta forums or from any other source.

EDIT: Never mind, it appears to be a bug. All the death knight damage-dealing abilities that use runes now say that they cost 10 runic power, rather than their actual rune cost.

Comment by d3nyd

Plague Strike (according to a blue quote on Worldofraids.com) will soon have the Degeneration/Scourge Strike HoT dispel. Scourge Strike will be given another secondary ability to make up for this loss, but it's great news that the HoT dispel is now on a baseline skill as it was with Degeneration.

Comment by Kevin92091

did they change the cost of this? last time i saw it, before the latest beta patch, it was just one unholy rune. 10 RP is ridiculous for a spell that most of your other spells work off of.

Comment by Mito

If I remember right this was at 1 Unholy und 1 Blood, but is now only 1 Unholy, making it perfect for a rotation like:
Plague Strike (1 U) -> Pestilence (1 B) -> Blood Boil (1 B) for generating aggro on multiple targets fast.
With unholy spec all targets will then have a chance of proccing Wandering Plague, dealing additional damage to all targets nearby.

Comment by Firreir

Any word on how much the DoT part of this spell does? Kinda hard to consider the benefit of talents like Crypt Fever or Wandering Plague when you don't know how much the base damage of the disease is. And anyone know how much AP applies to the DoT damage (if at all)?

Comment by Padman

I think this spell is very strong vs. druids, and Restoration druids has no chance vs. this...

Comment by Hunterkip

There's something strange I noticed about Plague Strike's removal of HoTs. I was dual wielding Skullforge Reaver and attacking the training dummies, seeing just how powerful those can be. (Not very, by the way D:) However, I noticed that when I had the debuff procced on the enemy, it was getting taken off when I used Plague Strike. The buff I get from this remained on me though. I'm curious as to what other DoTs this might remove.

Comment by Ptolemay

As of 3.1.0 it no longer removes HoTs.. thanks Blizzard.
Otherwise resto druids where < 0 in arena. :(

Comment by tobindax

When an effect - such as the set bonus - increases an ability's property - e.g. the set bonus' crit chance - does it also improve the disease it inflicts?

Comment by Urythmic

Why does Plague Strike link to Modified by Glyph of Pestilence?

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