Epidemic

Epidemic
	Epidemic; Row 4 Unholy death knight talent; 30 yd range; 30 Runic Power; Instant; Causes each of your Virulent Plagues to flare up, dealing (22.8% of Attack power) Shadow damage to the infected enemy, and an additional (9.12% of Attack power) Shadow damage to all other enemies near them.;
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required	[Outbreak]
Improvements	[Army of the Damned], [Death Rot], [Eternal Agony], [Sudden Doom]

For the Wrath of the Lich King Classic talent, see [Epidemic].

Epidemic is an Unholy death knight talent.

Patch changes

Hotfix (2023-12-05): Damage increased by 12%.
Hotfix (2023-08-07): Damage increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP.
Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Epidemic has swapped places with [Unholy Blight] within the talent tree (was row 5).
Hotfix (2022-11-21): Now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 5 Unholy talent (was a level 34 Unholy ability).
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Epidemic is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Unholy Death Knights at level 34. Additionally, Epidemic's range has been reduced to 40 yards (was 100 yards) and will fail to cast if there are no nearby enemies afflicted with Virulent Plague.
Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17):
- Now a level 90 Unholy talent (was a level 57 Unholy ability).
- Cost changed from 1 Rune to 30 Runic Power. Cooldown removed (was 10 seconds with 3 charges). Icon updated.
Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Increased the damage of Epidemic by 6%.
Hotfix (2016-07-26): Epidemic now strikes up to 20 nearby targets, and each AoE detonation strikes up to 6 nearby targets.
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Added.