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Black Hole

Spell

Black Hole

Shadow

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5 secVision Range (AOI)

Taz'Rah creates black hole from each that pulls all players toward it, inflicting 5.79466 Shadow damage every 1 sec to them.

Black Hole

Tooltip

Taz'Rah creates black hole from each that pulls all players toward it, inflicting 5.79466 Shadow damage every 1 sec to them. Players who fall within the center of a black hole suffer 18 Shadow damage every 1 sec.

How it works

Black Hole is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 15. Its area radius is 100 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Black Hole is a Shadow spell with a 5 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 15) in a 100 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 100 yard radius.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast time5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 15
Radius: 100 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 300, 2
Radius: 100 yards

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.

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

  • Name changed from Dark Rift to Black Hole (patch 12.1.0)
  • Effect: Effect type updated; Radius updated; Base points changed from 0 to 15 (patch 12.1.0)
  • Effect: Effect type updated; Radius updated; Base points changed from 0 to 100 (patch 12.1.0)
  • Spell data: School changed from Physical to Shadow; Duration updated (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 36 separate Spell records named "Black Hole". This page is record #1222274. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#1214719cast time: instant; effect types: Teleport, effect 340; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1222199school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1222305cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1224400used by: Cast by Black Hole; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 267; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1230169school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 1 hr; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1232987journal encounter: Dimensius, the All-Devouring; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 1 hr; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different caster
#1233399school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1241228school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1246786school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 24 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#1247807school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1262283cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1296955school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA 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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