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Bursting Darkness

Spell

Bursting Darkness

Shadow

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Instant castSelf Only

Inflicts 38.875 Shadow damage to all players for each stack.

Bursting Darkness

Tooltip

Inflicts 38.875 Shadow damage to all players for each stack.

How it works

Bursting Darkness is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 38.875. Its area radius is 300 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Bursting Darkness is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 38.875) in a 300 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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 38.875
Radius: 300 yards
Effect #2Dummy (3)
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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Bursting Darkness appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Bursting Darkness". This page is record #244021. 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
#314777school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314792used by: Cast by Bursting Darkness; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#314796used by: Cast by Bursting Darkness; duration: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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