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Black Hole

Spell

Black Hole

Physical

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Creates a Black Hole at the target location that continually pulls in players within.

Black Hole

Tooltip

Creates a Black Hole at the target location that continually pulls in players within.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Black Hole is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 4120

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 #183790. 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
#46282school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect 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 types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#138601school: Shadow; duration: 1 min; effect types: effect 144, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#138605school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; 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; different tooltip textA variant record
#186546journal encounter: Xhul'horac; school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#186547duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#229042school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#229044duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#371919school: Shadow; duration: 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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