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Dark Ruination

Spell

Dark Ruination

Shadow

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Instant castTower 100

Overcharges Xavius with Nightmare energy, inflicting 25.189 Shadow damage and causing 1 Corruption to all enemies every 1 sec.

Dark Ruination

Tooltip

Overcharges Xavius with Nightmare energy, inflicting 25.189 Shadow damage and causing 1 Corruption to all enemies every 1 sec. for 5 sec.

How it works

Dark Ruination is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 25.189. Its area radius is 150 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Dark Ruination.

What it does

Dark Ruination is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 25.189) in a 150 yard radius. It also casts Dark Ruination (record #225898).

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 timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 25.189
Radius: 150 yards
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Dark Ruination

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 3 separate Spell records named "Dark Ruination". This page is record #209294. 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
#209288journal encounter: Xavius; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#225898used by: Cast by Dark Ruination; effect types: EnergizeA helper record another spell casts

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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