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Essence Shear

Spell

Essence Shear

Shadow

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Essence Shear is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 30 sec. When cast it applies an aura.

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
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration30 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4

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 2 separate Spell records named "Essence Shear". This page is record #274693. 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
#273282difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; journal encounter: Mythrax the Unraveler; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version

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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