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Darkness

Spell

Darkness

Shadow

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Instant cast25 sec cooldownSelf Only

Summons darkness around you in a 12 yard radius, granting friendly targets a 40% chance to avoid all damage from an attack.

Darkness

Tooltip

Summons darkness around you in a 12 yard radius, granting friendly targets a 40% chance to avoid all damage from an attack. Lasts 6 sec.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

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 Shadow spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 25 sec cooldown and effects that last 6 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

SchoolShadow
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown25 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration6 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 27579
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 #397311. 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
#340334duration: none; effect types: effect 203A different effect setup
#347403school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#348426school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#360163school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Power Burn, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#360167school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#361628different tooltip textA variant record
#397309different tooltip textA variant record
#397310different tooltip textA variant record
#398130school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#398131school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#398132school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#444413school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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