Pestilence

For the Wrath of the Lich King Classic ability, see [Pestilence].

Pestilence
Pestilence Row 7 Unholy death knight talent Passive Death and Decay or Defile damage has a 10% chance to apply a Festering Wound to the enemy.
Properties
Class	Death knight
Talents
Talent required	[Bursting Sores]
Other information
Affects	[Death and Decay], [Defile]

Pestilence is an Unholy death knight talent.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.2.0 (2025-08-05): Removed.
  
• Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21):
  • [Defile] now works with the Pestilence talent.
  • Implementation has been updated to better reflect the functionality of the tooltip.
    
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 7 Unholy talent (was a level 45 Unholy talent).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now requires level 45 (was 90).
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Added.
  

External links

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