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Devouring Plague

Spell

Devouring Plague

Shadow

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Priest

Instant castLong Range

Consumes all of the caster's Shadow Orbs to deal Shadow damage and an additional Shadow damage every.2 sec for 6 sec.

Devouring Plague

Tooltip

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

Each cast of Devouring Plague costs 1 Power (28). Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 3.

Devouring Plague is built from 6 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 1 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 6 times over the full 6 sec (6 base in total).
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. Its base value is 100.
  4. Effect 4 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.786 times spell power.
  5. Effect 5 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.131 times spell power.
  6. Effect 6 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226.

What it does

Devouring Plague is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 1), applies an aura every 1 sec, applies an aura and deals Shadow damage.

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

SchoolShadow
Cost1 Power (28)
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration6 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 3
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 1
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Value: 100
Effect #4School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 0.786
Effect #5School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 0.131
Effect #6Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226

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

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 2 separate Spell records named "Devouring Plague". This page is record #2944. 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
#138490cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#369128effect 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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