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Looming Darkness

Spell

Looming Darkness

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Inflicts Shadow damage to enemies.

Looming Darkness

Tooltip

Inflicts Shadow damage to enemies.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 25. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Looming Darkness is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 25) in a 4 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 timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 25
Radius: 4 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?

Looming Darkness appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 10 separate Spell records named "Looming Darkness". This page is record #262637. 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
#106498used by: Cast by Hour of Twilight; school: Holy, Shadow; duration: 2 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#109231used by: Cast by Hour of Twilight; school: Holy, Shadow; effect types: Instakill; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#262630cast time: 2 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#262634effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#277578school: Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#277580school: Shadow, Arcane; effect values: 60 (this record: 25); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#277581effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#1253325school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1253327school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura, 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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