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Essence Shear

Spell

Essence Shear

Shadow

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1.5 secVision Range (AOI)

Inflicts Shadow damage instantly, and applies Annihilation to players in a cone in front of the caster.

Essence Shear

Tooltip

Inflicts Shadow damage instantly, and applies Annihilation to players in a cone in front of the caster.

Players struck by Essence Shear will not generate new Existence Fragments when suffering stacks of Annihilation for 30 sec.

How it works

Essence Shear is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 15 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 45. Its area radius is 15 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 16. Its area radius is 15 yards.

What it does

Essence Shear is a Shadow spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 45) in a 15 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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast time1.5 sec
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Radius: 15 yards
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 45
Radius: 15 yards
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 16
Radius: 15 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?

Essence Shear appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

  • Mythrax the Unraveler in Uldir
    Journal section: Stage Two: Ancient Awakening > N'raqi Destroyer; Stage One: Oblivion's Call
    Encounter creatures: Mythrax the UnravelerRaid boss ability

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 2 separate Spell records named "Essence Shear". This page is record #273282. 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
#274693cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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