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Eternal Darkness

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Eternal Darkness

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

The Darkness releases waves of pure shadow every 1 sec for 4 sec.

Eternal Darkness

Tooltip

The Darkness releases waves of pure shadow every 1 sec for 4 sec. Each wave inflicts 8 Shadow damage to all players and reduces the Candlelight's heat.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 8.

What it does

Eternal Darkness is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 300 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 8).

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
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 8

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 15 separate Spell records named "Eternal Darkness". This page is record #428276. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#201153journal encounter: Mindflayer Kaahrj; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#201172duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#227179effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#307048journal encounter: Carapace of N'Zoth; effect types: School Damage, Power Burn; different tooltip textA different caster
#307533duration: 10 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#307540cast time: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 140, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#307547used by: Cast by Eternal Darkness; duration: 11 min; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#307808effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#307809used by: Cast by Eternal Darkness; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#428266journal encounter: The Darkness; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#428267used by: Cast by Eternal Darkness; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#428283school: Physical; effect types: Power BurnA 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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