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Dark Star

Spell

Dark Star

Shadow

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Instant castFive Hundred Yards

Cho'gall summons a dark star at a random player's location that explodes after 5 sec, inflicting 116.595 Shadow damage to all enemies of the star.

Dark Star

Tooltip

Cho'gall summons a dark star at a random player's location that explodes after 5 sec, inflicting 116.595 Shadow damage to all enemies of the star.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 116.594. Its area radius is 25 yards.

What it does

Dark Star is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 500 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 116.594) in a 25 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
Range500 yards (Five Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 116.594
Radius: 25 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 22 separate Spell records named "Dark Star". This page is record #178609. 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
#156539effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#156545used by: Cast by Dark Star; effect values: 9.24 (this record: 116.59); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#156551effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#178607cast time: 2 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#184540school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#327377school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#369774subtext: Offensive; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#397631subtext: Offensive; effect values: 0 (this record: 116.59); different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#397632subtext: Offensive; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#397633subtext: Offensive; effect values: 0 (this record: 116.59); different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#397634subtext: Offensive; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#397635subtext: Offensive; effect values: 0 (this record: 116.59); different tooltip textA different rank or variant

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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