- Defile
- Row 6 Unholy death knight talent
- Replaces
 [Death and Decay] - 30 yd range
- 1 Rune
- 20 sec cooldown
- Instant
- Defile the targeted ground, dealing (55% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to all enemies over 10 sec.
While you remain within your Defile, your Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows will hit 7 enemies near the target.
Every sec, if any enemies are standing in the Defile, it grows in size, dealing increased damage, and increasing your Mastery by 1%, up to 8%.
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| Properties |
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| Class |
Death knight |
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| School |
Shadow |
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| Cooldown |
20 seconds |
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| Talents |
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| Talent required |
 [Unholy Blight] |
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| Improvements |
 [Pestilence] |
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Defile is an Unholy death knight talent.
Trivia
- This talent is presumably based on the Lich King's ability of the same name.
- This talent was mentioned in the April Fools' Day patch 9.0.5.0.5 notes: "Defile damage doubled in one dungeon, making it de-better to de-use in De Other Side."
Patch changes
Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21):
- Defile now works with the [Pestilence] talent.
- Defile now has additional functionality - If an enemy is inside Defile, it grants 1% Mastery every second, stacking up to 8% Mastery.
- Defile is no longer a choice node with
[Unholy Pact] and has replaced Pestilent Pustules within the specialization tree (previously located uner 
[Sudden Doom] and 
[All Will Serve].
- Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 Unholy talent (was a level 45 Unholy talent). Scourge Strike and Clawing Shadows now hit 7 nearby enemies (was 4).
Hotfix (2021-08-30): Fixed an issue where Defile would activate 
[Kevin's Oozeling].
- Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
- Now requires level 45 (was 90) and has a 20 second cooldown (was 25).
- Now causes
[Scourge Strike] and 
[Clawing Shadows] to hit 4 enemies near the target (was all enemies near the target).
- Now has an additional effect – If any enemies are standing in the Defile, it deals increasing damage every second.
Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now requires level 90 (was 100), has a 25 second cooldown (was 30 seconds), and deals Shadow damage (was Shadowfrost). No longer increases your mastery.
Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Damage increased by 38%.
- Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage increased by 20%, and Mastery per stack increased to 300 (was 200).
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19):
- No longer available to Blood or Frost death knights.
- Now has no cost (previously cost 1 Unholy Rune).
- Every 1 second, if there are enemies standing in it, Defile now increases your mastery, stacking up to 10 times. No longer increases its damage if there are enemies standing in it.
- While you remain within your Defile, it now causes [Scourge Strike] and [Clawing Shadows] to hit all enemies near the target.
Patch 6.2.3 (2015-11-17): Damage has been increased by 10%.
- Patch 6.1.0 (2015-02-24): Now only reduces damage taken for Blood Death Knights.
- Hotfix (2014-10-30): Should no longer be growing in radius and damage by more than the intended amount.
- Hotfix (2014-10-16): Damage increased by 20%.
- Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Added.
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