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Discharge

Spell

Discharge

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

The caster blasts a beam of Shadowy energies in front of them while rotating in place.

Discharge

Tooltip

The caster blasts a beam of Shadowy energies in front of them while rotating in place. Players caught in the beam suffer Shadow damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 300 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 40 times over the full 40 sec (12000 base in total).

What it does

Discharge is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 40 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec.

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 timeInstant
Duration40 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 300
Period: every 1 sec

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 23 separate Spell records named "Discharge". This page is record #260267. 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
#139399school: Nature; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#161629school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#223579school: Arcane; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#260262school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 300); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#261714school: Physical; cast time: 0.5 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, effect 114, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283005school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Area Aura (Party), Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#291540used by: Cast by Overcharge; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Trigger SpellA helper record another spell casts
#299986school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, effect 90A different effect setup
#314357school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#332196school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#344334school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#368956school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 164; 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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