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Dread Essence

Spell

Dread Essence

Shadow

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3 secSelf Only

At 100 energy, the caster releases a torrent of dark energy, inflicting 17.5 Shadow damage to all enemies.

Dread Essence

Tooltip

At 100 energy, the caster releases a torrent of dark energy, inflicting 17.5 Shadow damage to all enemies. Additionally, all Deathtouched Slavers are resurrected, brought back to their maximum health, and any crowd control effects on them are dispelled.

How it works

Each cast of Dread Essence costs 100 Energy.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 17.5. Its area radius is 100 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Dread Essence.

What it does

Dread Essence is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 17.5) in a 100 yard radius. It also casts Dread Essence (record #266184).

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
Cost100 Energy
RangeSelf Only
Cast time3 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 17.5
Radius: 100 yards
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Dread Essence

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?

Dread Essence 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 3 separate Spell records named "Dread Essence". This page is record #266181. 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
#266184used by: Cast by Dread Essence; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#272829school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 108, effect 108, effect 108, effect 108; 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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