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Tainted Shadows

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Tainted Shadows

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1 secTower 100

Crushes a player with dark magic, inflicting 27.9827 Shadow damage and triggering a Corrupted Blast.

Tainted Shadows

Tooltip

Crushes a player with dark magic, inflicting 27.9827 Shadow damage and triggering a Corrupted Blast.

Generates 1 Corrupt Power.

How it works

Tainted Shadows is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 27.9827.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 1.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Tainted Shadows is a Shadow spell with a 1 sec cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 1.5 sec. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 27.9827) and applies an aura.

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 (Tower 100)
Cast time1 sec
Duration1.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 27.9827
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 1
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4

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?

Tainted Shadows 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 4 separate Spell records named "Tainted Shadows". This page is record #180533. 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
#180568school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#180569cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#189748cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 140A 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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