Pestilence
Pestilence Meleerange 1 Blood Instant Spreads existing Blood Plague and Frost Fever infections from your target to all other enemies within 10 yards.
Usable by
Class	Death Knight
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Shadow
Cooldown	(GCD 1 sec)
Level required	56
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• Pestilence
• Meleerange
• 1 Blood
• Instant
• Spreads existing Blood Plague and Frost Fever infections from your target to all other enemies within 10 yards.

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

Pestilence is a death Knight ability learned at level 56. It allows the death knight to spread Frost Fever and Blood Plague from one target to other nearby targets within 10 yards. 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 25Disenchants 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

•  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. 
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): No longer has a 10 seconds cooldown. 
  

External links

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