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Consume Essence

Spell

Consume Essence

Shadow

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10 secSelf Only

The Forgotten Denizen tears a fragment from the minds of all players, inflicting 21.5861 Shadow damage to them and restoring health to the caster.

Consume Essence

Tooltip

The Forgotten Denizen tears a fragment from the minds of all players, inflicting 21.5861 Shadow damage to them and restoring health to the caster.

How it works

Consume Essence is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 21.5861. Its area radius is 300 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 136, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 50.

What it does

Consume Essence is a Shadow spell with a 10 sec cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 21.5861) 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 time10 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 21.5861
Radius: 300 yards
Effect #2Effect 136
Value: 50

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?

Consume Essence 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 28 separate Spell records named "Consume Essence". This page is record #267459. 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
#196877school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#196882used by: Cast by Consume Essence; school: Arcane; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#245727cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#267809effect values: 19.62, 50 (this record: 21.59, 50)Different tuning
#283516cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 134; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#284889used by: Cast by Consume Essence; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#284891effect types: effect 164A different effect setup
#285427difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic; journal encounter: Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void; cast time: 12 sec; effect values: 35, 100 (this record: 21.59, 50); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#294665cast time: 2 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308409cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308418cast time: instant; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308428cast time: instant; duration: 1 min; effect types: 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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