10 Video Game Where You Can Gamble To Gain Ultimate Power (Or Lose Everything)

The classes of World Of Warcraft are more or less balanced to be able to compete with each other on equal level. In the case of your warriors and rogues, the balancing is handled by how much health they have and how much damage they can deal.

In the case of the Priest class and its spell, Shadow Word: Death, the balancing is handled by playing dice with the Grim Reaper.

In Classic World of Warcraft, Shadow Word: Death is one of the rare spells that are capable of instantly killing your enemy. The spell inflicts massive Shadow damage, which can wipe out the health bars of both mobs and hostile players alike with a single well-timed cast.

However, it also comes with a downside in that if it doesn’t manage to kill your target, it will deal 50% of the inflicted damage back on you.

Because of this, the spell is known as a high-risk, high-reward gamble, in which the player has to either perfectly calculate how much damage they need to kill in a matter of seconds or take the risk and hope that casting the ability won’t be the end of them.