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PriestTooltip
Consumes all of the caster's Shadow Orbs to deal Shadow damage and an additional Shadow damage every.2 sec for 6 sec. Also heals the caster for 1% of their maximum health when it deals periodic damage.
Damage and healing increased based on the number of Shadow Orbs consumed.
While Devouring Plague is active, damage from your Mind Flay is increased by 33% per orb consumed.
How it works
Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
- Effect 1 is effect type 136, which the datamine does not name.
What it does
Devouring Plague is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster).
Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.
Spell Details
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Range | Self Only |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | Effect 136 |
Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.
Related
More Priest spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 2 separate Spell records named "Devouring Plague". This page is record #127626. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #138490 | cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #369128 | effect types: none | A 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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