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Impending Catastrophe

Spell

Impending Catastrophe

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Call forth a cloud of chaotic anima that travels to the target enemy, dealing (25.3% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to enemies in its path.

Impending Catastrophe

Tooltip

Call forth a cloud of chaotic anima that travels to the target enemy, dealing (25.3% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to enemies in its path. When the anima reaches the target it explodes, inflicting either Curse of Weakness or Curse of Tongues, and dealing (138% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 12 sec to all nearby enemies.

How it works

Its dispel type is client id 1.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. It scales with 0.23 times spell power. Its area radius is 8 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 6 times over the full 12 sec.

What it does

Impending Catastrophe is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 12 sec. When cast it applies an aura in an 8 yard radius every 2 sec.

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 timeInstant
Duration12 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Spell power coefficient: 0.23
Radius: 8 yards
Period: every 2 sec

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 4 separate Spell records named "Impending Catastrophe". This page is record #322170. 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
#321792subtext: Venthyr; used by: Venthyr; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#322167duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#337055subtext: Venthyr; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Learn Spell, DummyA different rank or variant

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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