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Necrotic Breath

Spell

Necrotic Breath

Nature

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Instant castLonger Range

A cresting wave of necromancy surges over players in a line in front of the caster, inflicting Shadow damage on impact and knocking enemies back.

Necrotic Breath

Tooltip

A cresting wave of necromancy surges over players in a line in front of the caster, inflicting Shadow damage on impact and knocking enemies back.

How it works

Necrotic Breath is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 25.1548. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Necrotic Breath is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 25.1548) in a 5 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 5 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

SchoolNature
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 25.1548
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 150
Radius: 5 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?

Necrotic Breath 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 25 separate Spell records named "Necrotic Breath". This page is record #342154. 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
#333488school: Shadow; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 4.4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#333489school: Shadow; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#333493journal encounter: Amarth, The Harvester; school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different caster
#334674school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#337047school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#337073school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#337074school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#337108school: Shadow; cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#342137effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#342149school: Shadow; cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#342152school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#342163school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA 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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