Pestilence

Pestilence
Pestilence Melee   range 1 Blood Instant Deals (60% of Attack power) Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards, and spreads your existing diseases from your target to all other enemies hit.
Usable by
Class	Death Knight
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Shadow
Casting time	Instant
Cooldown	(GCD 1 sec)
Level required	55
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• Pestilence
• Meleerange
• 1 Blood
• Instant
• Deals (60% of Attack power) Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards, and spreads your existing diseases from your target to all other enemies hit.

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With each breath, I can sense that you are one step closer to death. - Saeryn Dusksorrow

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Pestilence is a death knight ability learned at level 55. It allows the death knight to spread Frost Fever and Blood Plague from one target to other nearby targets within 10 yards while afflicting a burst of shadow damage. It costs 1 Blood Rune to cast.

Triggered by

• [Blood Boil] via [Roiling Blood] (core ability/talent)

Modified by

• [Reaping] ( unholy spec ability)

2020

• Glyph of Pestilence
• Item Level 25
  Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Death Knight
• Requires level 25
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  Increases the radius of your Pestilence effect by 5 yards.
• Sell Price: 1

Patch changes

• Patch 6.0.2 (14-October-2014): Pestilence now deals damage to all enemies within 10 yards, and spreads any diseases on targets hit to the other targets hit.; Pestilence now deals 50% more damage, but no longer deals additional damage for diseases being present on the target.
  
•  Hotfix (2009-04-15): "Death knights casting Reaping will no longer cause Pestilence to convert 2 Blood Runes into Death Runes."
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Does no damage and has only one rank. This ability will now spread disease centered on a position between the death knight and its target, rather than the target’s center position (for very large creatures, this used to cause no disease spread at all).
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): No longer has a 10 seconds cooldown. The diseases will now spread correctly even when the damage from Pestilence kills the primary target.
  

External links

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