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Black Hole

Spell

Black Hole

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

The seed explodes, knocking back the target and creating a black hole where they were, which deals 8.17749 damage every 1 sec, to enemies within, and pulls them in.

Black Hole

Tooltip

The seed explodes, knocking back the target and creating a black hole where they were, which deals 8.17749 damage every 1 sec, to enemies within, and pulls them in.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 8.1775 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec.

What it does

Black Hole is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura every 1 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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 8.1775
Period: every 1 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 36 separate Spell records named "Black Hole". This page is record #138605. 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
#46282effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62168used by: Cast by Black Hole Trigger; school: Arcane; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#62169school: Arcane; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 6.49 (this record: 8.18); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#138601duration: 1 min; effect types: effect 144, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#169851school: Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#172610school: Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183790school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#186546journal encounter: Xhul'horac; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#186547school: Physical; effect values: 12.95 (this record: 8.18); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#229042cast time: 2 sec; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#229044school: Physical; effect values: 67.17 (this record: 8.18); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#371919duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA 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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