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Despair

Spell

Despair

Shadow

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

The 's terrifying presence overwhelms the player, inflicting 40 Shadow damage and knocking them back.

Despair

Tooltip

The 's terrifying presence overwhelms the player, inflicting 40 Shadow damage and knocking them back.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 40.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 150.

What it does

Despair is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 300 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 40) and has a Knock Back effect.

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
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 40
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 150
Misc value: 150

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?

Despair appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Build history

this spell Changelog

Added in patch 12.1.0.

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 31 separate Spell records named "Despair". This page is record #1307009. 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
#307375effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#357144journal encounter: Fatescribe Roh-Kalo; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#365220school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#390147school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#390157school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1249034used by: Cast by Despair; school: Nature; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Knock Back; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1249035school: Nature; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1265323used by: Cast by Desecrated Chalice; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1271469cast time: 3 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1297986used by: Cast by Despair; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1297992duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1307032duration: until cancelled; 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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