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Carrion Swarm

Spell

Carrion Swarm

Shadow

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2 sec9 sec cooldownTwenty yards

A cresting wave of chaotic magic splashes over enemies in front of the caster, dealing Shadow damage.

Carrion Swarm

Tooltip

A cresting wave of chaotic magic splashes over enemies in front of the caster, dealing Shadow damage.

How it works

Each cast of Carrion Swarm costs 220 Mana. It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 300. Its area radius is 40 yards.

What it does

Carrion Swarm is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 20 yards and a 9 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 300) in a 40 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
Cost220 Mana
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown9 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 300
Radius: 40 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 51 separate Spell records named "Carrion Swarm". This page is record #175402. 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
#182809effect types: Dummy, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183810duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#189464cast time: instant; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#189558cast time: instant; effect types: effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#189559used by: Cast by Carrion Swarm; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 1 min; effect types: SummonA helper record another spell casts
#189560difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#189562school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#204901duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#204902school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#205355duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#214688cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#217097school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 77A 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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