Shadow Word: Death Rank 4

Shadow Word: Death (Rank 4) is a Priest spell in the WoW Forever client.

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. (Numbers at level 60; they grow with your level.)

Changed in the live client

Changed in the live client (build 70707) since beta build 70450:

• Rank 1 tooltip: “A word of dark binding that inflicts 286 to 304 Shadow damage to the target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 10% of your maximum health.” → “A word of dark binding that inflicts 286 to 304 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.”
• Rank 1 effects: updated (3 effects ? 3 effects)
• Rank 2 tooltip: “A word of dark binding that inflicts 359 to 381 Shadow damage to the target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 10% of your maximum health.” → “A word of dark binding that inflicts 359 to 381 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.”
• Rank 2 effects: updated (3 effects ? 3 effects)
• Rank 3 tooltip: “A word of dark binding that inflicts 391 to 415 Shadow damage to the target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 10% of your maximum health.” → “A word of dark binding that inflicts 391 to 415 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.”
• Rank 3 effects: updated (3 effects ? 3 effects)
• Rank 4 tooltip: “A word of dark binding that inflicts 434 to 462 Shadow damage to the target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 10% of your maximum health.” → “A word of dark binding that inflicts 434 to 462 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.”
• Rank 4 effects: updated (3 effects ? 3 effects)

Data from the WoW Forever client, build 1.60.1.70862, extracted 2026-11-09.