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Your Pestilence and Soul Reaper increase the healing done by your next Death Strike within 20 sec by 20%. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
Additionally, your Pestilence refreshes your diseases on targets it damages.
Usable by
Class
Death knight
Properties
School
Physical
Casting time
Passive
Talents
Specialization
Blood
Level required
55
Related buff
Scent of Blood
Increases the healing and minimum healing done by your next Death Strike by 20%.
Duration: 20 seconds
Scent of Blood (Passive)
Passive
Your Pestilence and Soul Reaper increase the healing done by your next Death Strike within 20 sec by 20%. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
Additionally, your Pestilence refreshes your diseases on targets it damages.
Scent of Blood is a death knight ability learned at level 55 for death knights with the blood specialization.
Patch changes[]
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found.Patch 6.0.2 (14-October-2014): Scent of Blood has been changed. It now causes Pestilence to refresh diseases, and increase the healing of your next Death Strike by 20%, stacking up to 5 times.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found.Patch 5.4.0 (10-Sep-2013): Scent of Blood now also has a chance to activate when the Death Knight dodges or parries a melee attack.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found.Patch 5.0.4 (28-August-2012): Updated.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found.Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Will now proc on a dodge, parry or when taking damage, and now grants 10 runic power per charge. Internal cooldown removed. This talent can no longer be triggered by environmental damage.
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