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Malevolence

Spell

Malevolence

FireShadow

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Warlock

Instant cast1 min cooldownSelf Only

Dark magic erupts from you and corrupts your soul for 20 sec, causing enemies suffering from your Wither to take (1265.5% of Spell Power) Shadowflame damage and increase its stack count by 6.

Malevolence

Tooltip

Dark magic erupts from you and corrupts your soul for 20 sec, causing enemies suffering from your Wither to take (1265.5% of Spell Power) Shadowflame damage and increase its stack count by 6.

While corrupted your Haste is increased by 8% and spending Soul Shards on damaging spells grants 1 additional stack of Wither.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Malevolence is built from 4 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 193. Its base value is 8.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 1.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 1.
  4. Effect 4 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 218. Its base value is 100.

What it does

Malevolence is a Fire and Shadow spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 1 min cooldown and effects that last 20 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

SchoolFire, Shadow
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 min
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration20 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 193
Value: 8
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 1
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 1
Effect #4Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 218
Value: 100
Misc value: 8, 5910

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?

Malevolence appears in: 1 teaching spell.

Teaching spells

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

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 19 separate Spell records named "Malevolence". This page is record #442726. 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
#342377school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#350427used by: Cast by Malevolence; school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: effect 144, School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#350469difficulty rows: Normal; journal encounter: Remnant of Ner'zhul; school: Shadow; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#355151used by: Cast by Malevolence; school: Shadow; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#355166school: Shadow; cast time: 21 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#356521school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#356523school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#430014used by: Talent: Warlock; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#442708duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#443371duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#446285duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#474724school: Physical; cast time: 1.9 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, 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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