Sudden Doom

Sudden Doom
Sudden Doom Row 3 Unholy death knight talent Passive Your auto attacks have a 25% chance to make your next Death Coil or Epidemic cost 10 less Runic Power and critically strike. Additionally, your next Death Coil will burst 1 Festering Wound.
Properties
Class	Death knight
Talents
Talent required	[Scourge Strike]
Other information
Affects	[Death Coil], [Epidemic]
Improvements	[Doomburst], [Doomed Bidding], [Harbinger of Doom], [Rotten Touch], [Visceral Strength]
Related buff
Sudden Doom Your next Death Coil or Epidemic consumes no Runic Power. Duration: 10 seconds

Sudden Doom is an Unholy death knight talent.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Moved to row 3 (was row 5) and redesigned - Your auto attacks have a 25% chance to make your next [Death Coil] or [Epidemic] cost 10 less Runic Power and critically strike. Additionally, your next Death Coil will burst 1  [Festering Wound].

  Old: Your auto attacks have a chance to make your next Death Coil or Epidemic cost no Runic Power.
  

• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 5 Unholy talent (was a level 23 Unholy ability).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
  • Now learned at level 23 (was 60).
  • Now causes your auto attacks to have a chance to make your next Death Coil or Epidemic cost no Runic Power (was only Death Coil).
    
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now learned at level 60 (was 64).
  
• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Sudden Doom now procs 20% slower.
  
• Hotfix (2016-08-08): Sudden Doom's chance to activate is now increased by melee attack speed (was Haste).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now longer requires [Unholy Presence].
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): No longer passively reduces the cost of Death Coil.
  
• Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Now requires the Death Knight to be in Unholy Presence to activate the effect that causes Death Coil to cost no Runic Power.
  
• Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): The responsiveness of Sudden Doom has been improved.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 64 Unholy ability (was a tier 6 Unholy talent) and also passively reduces the cost of Death Coil by 20%.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Sudden Doom is now triggered only from main-hand auto attacks, and is normalized according to weapon speed rather than having a fixed percentage chance.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Changed from tier 8 in Blood to tier 6 in Unholy, and redesigned: Your auto attacks have a 5/10/15% chance to make your next Death Coil cost no runic power.

  Old: Your Blood Strikes and Heart Strikes have a 5/10/15% chance to launch a free Death Coil at your target.
  

• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Now procs a free Death Coil instead of requiring you to push the button. Ranks reduced from 5 to 3.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

Other versions

• Wrath Classic

  Sudden Doom
  Sudden Doom (3 ranks) Tier 8 Blood death knight talent Passive Your Blood Strikes and Heart Strikes have a 10% chance to launch a free Death Coil at your target.
  Properties
  Class	Death knight
  Other information
  Affects	[Blood Strike], [Heart Strike]

• Cataclysm Classic

  Sudden Doom
  Sudden Doom (3 ranks) Tier 6 Unholy death knight talent Passive Your main-hand autoattacks have a chance to make your next Death Coil cost no Runic Power.
  Properties
  Class	Death knight
  Other information
  Affects	[Death Coil]
  Related buff
  Sudden Doom Your next Death Coil consumes no runic power. Duration: 10 seconds

External links

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