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Dark Star

Spell

Dark Star

Shadow

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Instant cast12 sec cooldownMedium Range

Throw a Dark Star forward, dealing (110% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to enemies in its path.

Dark Star

Tooltip

Throw a Dark Star forward, dealing (110% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to enemies in its path. After reaching its destination, the Dark Star returns to you, damaging enemies in its path again.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its base value is 6.

What it does

Dark Star is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards, a 12 sec cooldown and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown12 sec
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration15 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Value: 6
Misc value: 27524

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 #397632. 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
#156545used by: Cast by Dark Star; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#156551duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#178607cast time: 2 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 6); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#178609duration: none; effect types: School Damage; 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
#369774different tooltip textA variant record
#397631duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#397633duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#397634different tooltip textA variant record
#397635duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#397636different tooltip textA variant record

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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