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Darkness

Spell

Darkness

Physical

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Demon Hunter

Instant castSelf Only

Summons darkness around you in an 8 yd radius, granting friendly targets a 15% chance to avoid all damage from an attack.

Darkness

Tooltip

Summons darkness around you in an 8 yd radius, granting friendly targets a 15% chance to avoid all damage from an attack. Lasts 8 sec.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Darkness is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect and 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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 6615
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4

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 53 separate Spell records named "Darkness". This page is record #347403. 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
#307807duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#309906school: Shadow; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#311657used by: Cast by Combat Phase Aura Two; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#312160duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#320420subtext: Rank 2; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#336254duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#339511used by: Cast by Darkness; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#340334school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: effect 203A different effect setup
#348426duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#360163duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Power Burn, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#360167duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#361628subtext: Utility; school: Shadow; duration: 6 sec; 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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