Desecration

Desecration
Desecration (2 ranks) Unholy, Tier 2 Your Plague, Scourge, and Necrotic Strikes defile the ground within 7 yards of your target. Enemies in the area are slowed by 25/50% while standing on the unholy ground. Lasts 20 sec.
Requirements
Class	Death knight
Tree	Unholy
Points required	5
Related debuff
Desecration Standing upon unholy ground. Movement speed is reduced by 25/50%.

Desecration is a talent in tier 2 of the Unholy tree.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2023-07-24): Fixed some issues around the general interactions of Death Knight's Desecration with its targets.
  
• Hotfix (2023-06-26): Fixed an issued where Desecration was pulling characters out of stealth.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): No longer triggers when an applicable strike hits a snare-immune target. This is primarily to avoid unnecessary spell effect clutter during boss encounters.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Desecration is now also triggered by [Necrotic Strike].
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): The debuff from this ability will no longer sometimes appear as if it were cast by someone else. In addition, the visual and snare from this ability will now both dissipate at the same time. Further, this talent will now respect snare immunities, and no longer sometimes snare immune targets. Duration increased to 20 seconds from 12.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04):
  • This talent has been reduced to 2 points for 25/50% snare and no longer increases damage done by the death knight. It has also been moved one tier earlier in the tree and its spell effect has been made more transparent.
  • No longer causes unnecessary combat logging.
    
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): This talent now has a 100% chance to be triggered. Additional points in the talent increase the damage bonus and snare magnitude instead of increasing the chance.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Will no longer break stealth.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

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