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Dark Star

Spell

Dark Star

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Throw a Dark Star forward, dealing (125% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to enemies in its path.

Dark Star

Tooltip

Throw a Dark Star forward, dealing (125% 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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 1.25 times spell power.

What it does

Dark Star is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage.

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)
Spell power coefficient: 1.25

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 #397635. 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; effect values: 9.24 (this record: 0); 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
#178609effect values: 116.59 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#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
#369774duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#397631different tooltip textA variant record
#397632duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#397633different tooltip textA variant record
#397634duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#397636duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; 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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