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Dirge of Despair

Spell

Dirge of Despair

Shadow

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4 secVision Range (AOI)

L'ura performs the, immediately inflicting 10 Shadow damage to all players.

Dirge of Despair

Tooltip

L'ura performs the, immediately inflicting 10 Shadow damage to all players. This song causes all to radiates 1 Shadow damage every 2 sec until they are silenced.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 10. Its area radius is 100 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 203, which the datamine does not name. Its area radius is 100 yards. It triggers Void Barrier.

What it does

Dirge of Despair is a Shadow spell with a 4 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 10) in a 100 yard radius. It also casts Void Barrier.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast time4 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 10
Radius: 100 yards
Effect #2Effect 203
Radius: 100 yards
Trigger spell: Void Barrier

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?

Dirge of Despair appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Dirge of Despair". This page is record #1265421. 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
#1265422used by: Cast by Discordant Beam; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#1265424cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1265997cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1266638used by: Cast by Discordant Beam; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts

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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