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Mind Flay

Spell

Mind Flay

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

The Umbral Tentacle assaults a player's mind, inflicting 7 Shadow damage every 2 sec for 10 sec.

Mind Flay

Tooltip

The Umbral Tentacle assaults a player's mind, inflicting 7 Shadow damage every 2 sec for 10 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 7 per tick. Its area radius is 100 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 5 times over the full 10 sec (35 base in total).

What it does

Mind Flay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura in a 100 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
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 7
Radius: 100 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Mind Flay appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 110 separate Spell records named "Mind Flay". This page is record #1268733. 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
#274032duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#277358cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#277521school: Shadow, Arcane; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278311duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#284414duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#290402duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#292974duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#299301cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#303566cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#306391duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308172cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308884duration: none; effect types: Dummy; 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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