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Essence Break

Spell

Essence Break

PhysicalHolyFireNatureFrostShadowArcane

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Demon Hunter

Instant castLong Range

Slash all enemies in front of you for (462% of Attack Power) Chaos damage, causing Chaos Strike and Blade Dance to deal (257.4% of Attack Power) Chaos damage to them for 4 sec.

Essence Break

Tooltip

Slash all enemies in front of you for (462% of Attack Power) Chaos damage, causing Chaos Strike and Blade Dance to deal (257.4% of Attack Power) Chaos damage to them for 4 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 2.574 times attack power.

What it does

Essence Break is a Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow and Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow and Arcane damage.

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

SchoolPhysical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 2.574

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.

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 1.98 to 2.574 (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 3 separate Spell records named "Essence Break". This page is record #1245759. 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
#258860used by: Talent: Demon Hunter; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different owner
#320338school: Physical, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane; duration: 4 sec; 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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