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Dark Blast

Spell

Dark Blast

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Your ranged attacks and spells have a chance to unleash a Dark Blast in the direction of your target, dealing Shadow damage to all enemies in the line.

Dark Blast

Tooltip

Your ranged attacks and spells have a chance to unleash a Dark Blast in the direction of your target, dealing Shadow damage to all enemies in the line.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its area radius is 40 yards.

What it does

Dark Blast is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage in a 40 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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Radius: 40 yards

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 14 separate Spell records named "Dark Blast". This page is record #215407. 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
#28457used by: Cast by Dark Blast; effect types: School Damage, Instakill; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#28458duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#55713effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#55714used by: Cast by Dark Blast; effect types: School Damage, Instakill; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#154193cast time: 6 sec; effect values: 470 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#198820difficulty rows: Mythic; journal encounter: Lord Kur'talos Ravencrest; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#207006difficulty rows: Mythic; journal encounter: Gul'dan; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#214399effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#215444effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#442096school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#442097school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#446415cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; 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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