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Nightfall

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Instant castTower 100

Your damaging spells have a chance to pull a nightmare star from the sky, creating a pool of corruption that deals Shadow damage to all enemies in the area over 10 sec.

Nightfall

Tooltip

Your damaging spells have a chance to pull a nightmare star from the sky, creating a pool of corruption that deals Shadow damage to all enemies in the area over 10 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Nightfall is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage 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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
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?

Nightfall 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 19 separate Spell records named "Nightfall". This page is record #213786. 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
#198400school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#198401journal encounter: Archdruid Glaidalis; school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different caster
#198402school: Physical; duration: 5 min; effect types: Create Area Effect, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#198408duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#198432school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#198464school: Physical; duration: 5 min; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#212464school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#213782school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#213784school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#213785duration: 10 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#213833effect types: Dummy, Trigger SpellA different effect setup
#248813subtext: PvP Talent; school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant

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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