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Abyssal Breath

Spell

Abyssal Breath

Shadow

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

Sarkareth takes in a deep breath and flies to a location, inflicting 58 Shadow damage in a line and knocking players away.

Abyssal Breath

Tooltip

Sarkareth takes in a deep breath and flies to a location, inflicting 58 Shadow damage in a line and knocking players away. This leaves behind void residue which inflicts 7 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec to players within.

How it works

Abyssal Breath is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 260.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 7 per tick. It ticks every 0.5 sec, 120 times over the full 1 min (840 base in total).

What it does

Abyssal Breath is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 1 min. When cast it applies an aura and applies an aura every 0.5 sec.

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

SchoolShadow
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration1 min
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 260
Misc value: 2079, 7
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 7
Period: every 0.5 sec

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Abyssal Breath". This page is record #404499. 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
#404456journal encounter: Scalecommander Sarkareth; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: effect 254; different tooltip textA different caster
#404458duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#404474school: Physical; duration: 10 min; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#410243journal encounter: Scalecommander Sarkareth; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 144, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster

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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