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Dark Transformation

Spell

Dark Transformation

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Cause an unholy blast around your permanent Ghoul, dealing (88% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to nearby enemies and evolving it into a Monstrosity, greatly empowering its abilities.

Dark Transformation

Tooltip

Cause an unholy blast around your permanent Ghoul, dealing (88% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to nearby enemies and evolving it into a Monstrosity, greatly empowering its abilities.

Death Coil and Epidemic extends the duration of this effect by 1.1 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.88 times attack power. Its area radius is 8 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 5.

What it does

Dark Transformation is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage in an 8 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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 0.88
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 5

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 11 separate Spell records named "Dark Transformation". This page is record #344955. 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
#63560effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#70895school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#70900school: Physical; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#180805school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#325554subtext: Rank 2; used by: Unholy Death Knight; school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#1233448used by: Talent: Death Knight; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, effect 137; different tooltip textA different owner
#1235391duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1306626duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1306636school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1306637used by: Cast by Dark Transformation; school: Physical; effect types: DummyA 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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