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Ritual of Doom

Spell

Ritual of Doom

Shadow

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Warlock

10 sec60 min cooldownMedium Range

Begins a ritual that sacrifices a random participant to summon a doomguard.

Ritual of Doom

Tooltip

Begins a ritual that sacrifices a random participant to summon a doomguard. The doomguard must be immediately subjugated or it will attack the ritual participants. Requires the caster and 4 additional party members to complete the ritual. In order to participate, all players must right-click the portal and not move until the ritual is complete.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Summon Object (effect type 50). Its base value is 1. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Ritual of Doom is a Shadow spell with a 10 sec cast, a range of 30 yards, a 1 hr cooldown and effects that last 1 min. When cast it summons an object in a 5 yard radius.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time10 sec
Cooldown1 hr
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration1 min
Effect #1Summon Object (50)
Value: 1
Misc value: 177193
Radius: 5 yards

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 10 separate Spell records named "Ritual of Doom". This page is record #18540. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#223922used by: Cast by Ritual of Doom; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#224235effect types: noneA different effect setup
#224677effect types: noneA different effect setup
#227892effect types: noneA different effect setup
#342601used by: Warlock; effect types: noneA different owner
#342607effect types: noneA different effect setup
#342609effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1223521effect types: noneA different effect setup
#1224070used by: Cast by Ritual of Doom; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#1273004effect types: noneA different effect setup

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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