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Spell
Adaptive Swarm
Shadow
DruidCommand a swarm that heals (157.5% of Spell Power) or deals (150% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 12 sec to a target, and increases the effectiveness of your periodic effects on them by 25%.
Tooltip
Command a swarm that heals (157.5% of Spell Power) or deals (150% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 12 sec to a target, and increases the effectiveness of your periodic effects on them by 25%.
Upon expiration, finds a new target, preferring to alternate between friend and foe up to 3 times.
How it works
Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
Adaptive Swarm is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 3.
- Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 50.
What it does
Adaptive Swarm is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and a 25 sec cooldown.
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
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Range | 40 yards (Long Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Cooldown | 25 sec |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | Dummy (3) Value: 3 |
| Effect #2 | Dummy (3) Value: 50 |
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.
Used by
Where is this spell used?
Adaptive Swarm appears in: 1 talent and 1 skill line.
Talents
- Adaptive Swarm (a talent definition no current talent tree places)Talent
Skill lines
- Necrolord (Druid)Skill line
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Necrolord spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 9 separate Spell records named "Adaptive Swarm". This page is record #325727. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #325733 | duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #325748 | duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #335935 | school: Physical; effect types: Learn Spell, Dummy; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #391888 | school: Nature; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #391889 | school: Nature; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #391891 | school: Nature; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #440342 | school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: effect 74; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #446701 | school: Nature; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | 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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