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Consumption

Spell

Consumption

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant cast45 sec cooldownCombat Range

Empower the runes in your weapon, reducing the damage you take over the duration and unleashing a devastating attack that deals (625.1% of Attack Power) Shadow damage and consumes up to 75% of your...

Consumption

Tooltip

Empower the runes in your weapon, reducing the damage you take over the duration and unleashing a devastating attack that deals (625.1% of Attack Power) Shadow damage and consumes up to 75% of your Blood Plague instantly from enemies in front of you.

I: Consumes up to 25% of your Blood Plague. While empowering, your damage taken is reduced by 5% and an additional 8 sec after empowering.

II: Consumes up to 50% of your Blood Plague. While empowering, your damage taken is reduced by 10% and an additional 4 sec after empowering.

III: Consumes up to 75% of your Blood Plague. While empowering, your damage taken is reduced by 15% and an additional 2 sec after empowering.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 0.5 sec global cooldown.

Consumption is built from 11 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 33. Its base value is 30.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 25.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 50.
  4. Effect 4 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 75.
  5. Effect 5 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 5.
  6. Effect 6 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 10.
  7. Effect 7 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 15.
  8. Effect 8 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 8000.
  9. Effect 9 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 4000.
  10. Effect 10 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 2000.
  11. Effect 11 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Consumption.

What it does

Consumption is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 5 yards, a 45 sec cooldown and effects that last 2 sec. When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Consumption (record #1263861).

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
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown45 sec
Global cooldown0.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration2 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 33
Value: 30
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 25
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 50
Effect #4Dummy (3)
Value: 75
Effect #5Dummy (3)
Value: 5
Effect #6Dummy (3)
Value: 10
Effect #7Dummy (3)
Value: 15
Effect #8Dummy (3)
Value: 8000
Effect #9Dummy (3)
Value: 4000
Effect #10Dummy (3)
Value: 2000
Effect #11Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Consumption

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?

Consumption appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

  • Consumption for Death Knight (Blood, Frost, Unholy)Talent

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 36 separate Spell records named "Consumption". This page is record #1263824. 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
#274156school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Health Leech, Trigger Spell, Dummy, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#274893used by: Cast by Consumption; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#322450journal encounter: Tred'ova; school: Nature; duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different caster
#336416school: Nature; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#336976school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 164A different effect setup
#337963school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#339709school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#360778cast time: 2 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#360801school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1263825duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1263861used by: Cast by Consumption; school: Physical; duration: 4.5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1263872duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; 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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