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Enveloping Darkness

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Enveloping Darkness

FireShadow

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Vakan hurls darkness at 6 random player destinations, inflicting 75 Shadowflame damage to all players of the impact and summons a.

Enveloping Darkness

Tooltip

Vakan hurls darkness at 6 random player destinations, inflicting 75 Shadowflame damage to all players of the impact and summons a.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Summon (effect type 28).
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 75. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Enveloping Darkness is a Fire and Shadow spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 3 min. When cast it summons a creature and deals Fire and Shadow damage (base value 75) in a 5 yard radius.

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

SchoolFire, Shadow
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Duration3 min
Effect #1Summon (28)
Misc value: 202796, 4345
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 75
Radius: 5 yards

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?

Enveloping Darkness appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 11 separate Spell records named "Enveloping Darkness". This page is record #404176. 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
#82531school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#125760school: Shadow; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#220308school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#287876journal encounter: The Restless Cabal; school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#404171cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#404173duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#1226844school: Shadow; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1244997school: Shadow; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1264505school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1264522school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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