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Carrion Swarm

Spell

Carrion Swarm

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Your ranged attacks and spells have a chance to unleash a Carrion Swarm to infect all enemies in a line in front of you, dealing Shadow damage over 8 sec.

Carrion Swarm

Tooltip

Your ranged attacks and spells have a chance to unleash a Carrion Swarm to infect all enemies in a line in front of you, dealing Shadow damage over 8 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its area radius is 50 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 4 times over the full 8 sec.

What it does

Carrion Swarm is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it applies an aura in a 50 yard radius every 2 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
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Radius: 50 yards
Period: every 2 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Carrion Swarm appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 51 separate Spell records named "Carrion Swarm". This page is record #225731. 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
#217097school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#217098cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#219616cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#222155school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#222157cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#224009cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#224981cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#225131duration: none; different tooltip textA variant record
#233155journal encounter: Mephistroth; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#233175school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#233176school: Physical; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#233177duration: until cancelled; effect values: 5.6 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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