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Dark Talons

Spell

Dark Talons

FrostShadow

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Death Knight

Instant cast

Marrowrend and Heart Strike have a 25% chance to grant 3 stacks of Icy Talons and increase its maximum stacks by the same amount for 6 sec.

Dark Talons

Tooltip

Marrowrend and Heart Strike have a 25% chance to grant 3 stacks of Icy Talons and increase its maximum stacks by the same amount for 6 sec.

Runic Power spending abilities count as Shadowfrost while Icy Talons is active.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met. It can proc at most once every 1 sec.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 25.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 3.

What it does

Dark Talons is a Frost and Shadow spell with an instant cast. When cast it applies an aura.

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

SchoolFrost, Shadow
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Proc cooldown1 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 25
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 3

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Dark Talons appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

  • Dark Talons for Death Knight (Blood, Frost, Unholy)
    Hero talent tree: DeathbringerTalent

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 3 separate Spell records named "Dark Talons". This page is record #436687. 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
#443586duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#443595duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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