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Necrotic Plague

Necrotic Plague
Unlimited range
Instant
Requires level 80

Infests the target with a deadly plague, causing 50000 Shadow damage every 5 sec for 15 sec. If the target dies while afflicted or the effect ends, this effect will gain an additional stack and jump to a nearby unit. If this effect is dispeled, it will lose a stack and jump to a nearby unit. Whenever this effect jumps, The Lich King's power will increase.

Buff

Necrotic Plague	Disease

Deals 50000 Shadow damage every 5 sec.
Jumps to nearby target when removed or host dies.
15 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

15 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Disease

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

50000 yards (Anywhere)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 50000 every 5 seconds
Value: 100000 every 5 seconds - 25 Player (Legacy)
Value: 75000 every 5 seconds - 10 Player Heroic (Legacy)
Value: 150000 every 5 seconds - 25 Player Heroic (Legacy)

Flags

Can only target the player

Comments

Comment by ZythocHuujin

awww nuts, why didnt DKs get THIS plague strike?

Comment by Bareno

If this effect is dispeled, it will lose a stack and jump to a nearby unit.

From the above spell, seems like this spell is an thing that forces whoever that can remove diseases to get this spell off the raid as fast as they can, if they dispell it fast enough, (aka before 3 seconds), they wont take any damage and it will hop to an new victim.

Comment by Vehemence

There is a good chance the lich king will use this in his encounter, since one of the achievements is linked to it; http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=4621

Comment by Megaira

Well i really don´t know how Blizz means this achievment. It says: Allow Necrotic Plague to stack to 30 before defeating the Lich King.

However we really don´t know if we need to bring the debuff to 30 on US or on a NPC (Tirion, Darion ...) I think that this means an NPC cause this would fit the really high DMG per stack. Unless theres a buff that reduces the dmg from the stacks i think that we need to allow the debuff to stack on an NPC.

Well we´ll see when Arthas comes live and this is going to be on 3rd February cause there the last wing is going to be released.

Comment by Fefe31619

Does this mean that with this, Icy Touch, Plague Strike, and Ebon Plague to use with Death Strike, along with the 10 second cooldown on runes and Arthas' stam stacking.....

Woah, I wonder if this guy PvPs often.

Comment by Salculd

"The king threw back his head and laughed. He enjoyed a good laugh, and so did his wife, the queen. When she saw the king laughing she let out a big laugh too. In fact, she laughed so hard she broke her throne. This made them both laugh harder. Then they got serious when they remembered they had the plague. 'The plague!' said the king, but the way he said it made them both burst out laughing again." - Jack Handey

Comment by lorerox

well thinking about it and all the adds, it jumping to the adds sounds like how you get acheievment

Comment by carnathagia

This spell is necessary to kill the Shambling Horrors in a timely manner. It must be dispelled from your raid members and made to jump to them quickly. If it's dispelled in the middle of your players, it will jump around the raid, quickly building up the Lich King's damage. The best way is to separate your add tank, and have the infected person run to him/her to be dispelled so that it can only jump to the tank or to the enemies.

Comment by TheSonuvalich

Does anyone know for certain if the DK Ebon Plaguebringer ability buffs the damage of Necrotic Plague?

Comment by Henjinn

Isn't it possible to get it to jump over to lich king himself? That means less jumps and less damage on his autohits and a perfectly good nuke? :P

Comment by briandilley

If there is nobody withing range of someone that has this when it's dispelled it simply disappears - this can cause problems if you're trying to let it build up and kill Shambling Horrors.

Comment by modicumofrespite

What range to jump? Does it need to be dispelled to jump? I ran to the Shambling and died under his feet due to Necrotic Plague. He was standing on my corpse. The RL blamed me, but I'm not sure what I did wrong?

Comment by Badaccus

You probably waited too long with running to the add, since the first tick comes at 5 seconds, and if you have less than 50k hp it will kill you. Tried it today, got it cast on me first application, and it did 40,500 damage after damage-modifiers, being a tank and all. This will hit you for 50,000 every 5 seconds, if not dispelled.

*Clarification: Yes you need to dispel it or let it run its course, even if it doesn't kill you it will add a stack and jump.

If you have more than 150,000 hp you can let it tick out, and then jump, it will gain a stack and not kill you, but thats only at the first application, with 2 stacks it would've ticked on me for 81,000hp 3 times, then jumped. If your healers can get you 80,000+ healing in less than 5 seconds for 15 seconds, feel free to let it tick, jump and stack, after that third stack it's really going to be a serious issue. 120,000+ damage every 5 seconds.

To reach the achievement you need to have it stack to 30, which would cause this disease to do 1,500,000 damage per tick. At that rate you wont have many adds up for any longer time.

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