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Devour

Spell

Devour

Shadow

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1 secCombat Range (Extended)

The caster devours the target's life essence, inflicting 7 Shadow damage and restoring 5% of the caster's maximum health.

Devour

Tooltip

The caster devours the target's life essence, inflicting 7 Shadow damage and restoring 5% of the caster's maximum health.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 7.
  2. Effect 2 is Heal (effect type 10). Its base value is 5.

What it does

Devour is a Shadow spell with a 1 sec cast and a range of 8 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 7) and heals (base value 5).

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
Range8 yards (Combat Range (Extended))
Cast time1 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 7
Effect #2Heal (10)
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 145 separate Spell records named "Devour". This page is record #1216131. 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
#407647school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 140A different effect setup
#407649used by: Cast by Devour; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#407650school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#407703school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Teleport, effect 305, effect 140A different effect setup
#409744school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#433536school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 136; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#440904journal encounter: Ulgrax the Devourer; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 164; different tooltip textA different caster
#447240difficulty rows: Looking For Raid; journal encounter: Queen Ansurek; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#447247school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 0.8 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#449290school: Physical; effect types: Health Leech, effect 226; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1217232journal encounter: Azhiccar; school: Physical; cast time: 5 sec; duration: 18 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Power Burn; different tooltip textA different caster
#1217240school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 18 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect; 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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