Skip to content
Mental Decay

Spell

Mental Decay

Shadow

Advertisement

Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Deteriorates targeted players' minds, immediately draining 15 Sanity and additionally inflicting 7.5 Shadow damage every second for 12 sec.

Mental Decay

Tooltip

Deteriorates targeted players' minds, immediately draining 15 Sanity and additionally inflicting 7.5 Shadow damage every second for 12 sec.

How it works

Mental Decay is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Power Burn (effect type 62). Its base value is 15.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 7.5 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 12 times over the full 12 sec (90 base in total).

What it does

Mental Decay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 12 sec. When cast it burns a resource on the target (base value 15) and applies an aura every 1 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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Duration12 sec
Effect #1Power Burn (62)
Value: 15
Misc value: 10
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 7.5
Period: every 1 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Mental Decay appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

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 6 separate Spell records named "Mental Decay". This page is record #313610. 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
#313362cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#313364difficulty rows: Mythic; journal encounter: Carapace of N'Zoth; effect values: 15, 10 (this record: 15, 7.5); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#313391difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#313611difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Servant of N'Zoth; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#375994used by: Talent: Priest; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner

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.

Comments

Read player comments on Mental Decay at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)