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Consuming Darkness

Spell

Consuming Darkness

Shadow

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1 sec5 sec cooldownLong Range

Hurls a ball of dark energy, inflicting shadow damage and creating a zone of consuming darkness on the ground.

Consuming Darkness

Tooltip

Hurls a ball of dark energy, inflicting shadow damage and creating a zone of consuming darkness on the ground.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). Its area radius is 2.5 yards. It triggers Consuming Darkness.

What it does

Consuming Darkness is a Shadow spell with a 1 sec cast, a range of 40 yards and a 5 sec cooldown. It also casts Consuming Darkness (record #109198).

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time1 sec
Cooldown5 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1Trigger Spell (64)
Radius: 2.5 yards
Trigger spell: Consuming Darkness

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 7 separate Spell records named "Consuming Darkness". This page is record #109196. 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
#88954difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#109198used by: Cast by Consuming Darkness; cast time: instant; duration: 25 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#308061school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#364448used by: Cast by Consuming Darkness; cast time: instant; effect types: Weapon % DamageA helper record another spell casts
#364449cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1280076cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; 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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