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Desolation Beam

Spell

Desolation Beam

Shadow

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6 secAnywhere - Unlimited

The Eye of the Jailer unleashes a beam of shadowy energy at a random player, inflicting 15 Shadow damage before leaping to nearby allies.

Desolation Beam

Tooltip

The Eye of the Jailer unleashes a beam of shadowy energy at a random player, inflicting 15 Shadow damage before leaping to nearby allies.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 15. It jumps to up to 30 targets.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3).

What it does

Desolation Beam is a Shadow spell with a 6 sec cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 15) jumping to up to 30 targets.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast time6 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 15
Chain targets: 30
Effect #2Dummy (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?

Desolation Beam appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

  • The Eye of the Jailer in Sanctum of Domination
    Journal section: Stage Two: Double Vision > Eye of the Jailer; Stage Three: Immediate Extermination
    Encounter creatures: Eye of the JailerRaid boss ability

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Desolation Beam". This page is record #355914. 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
#350846school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#350847effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#358610school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 5.5 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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