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Darkening Soul

Spell

Darkening Soul

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

Grants a chance for enemies that attack you to have their souls Darkened, reducing the damage they deal to you.2% for 20 sec.

Darkening Soul

Tooltip

Grants a chance for enemies that attack you to have their souls Darkened, reducing the damage they deal to you.2% for 20 sec. Additional applications increase the effectiveness of Darkening Soul but do not refresh its duration.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. It triggers Darkening Soul.

What it does

Darkening Soul is a spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Darkening Soul (record #222209).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Trigger spell: Darkening Soul

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

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 6 separate Spell records named "Darkening Soul". This page is record #222207. 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
#206651journal encounter: Xavius; school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#222209used by: Cast by Darkening Soul; duration: 20 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#222222effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#440042effect values: 1 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#441572school: Fire, Shadow; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record

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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