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Nightmare

Spell

Nightmare

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Fear causes your damage over time effects on the target to manifest into nightmares.

Nightmare

Tooltip

Fear causes your damage over time effects on the target to manifest into nightmares. The nightmares deal 70% of their remaining periodic damage, and generate 1 Soul Shards.

You can only gain 1 Soul Shards every 30 seconds from nightmares.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1.

What it does

Nightmare is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 1).

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
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 13 separate Spell records named "Nightmare". This page is record #200180. 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
#48319subtext: Rank 1; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#96670school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#109955used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul Legendary Daggers; school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#151174duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#162802school: Physical; duration: 2 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209769school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#209911school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#210314school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Spawn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#233168school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#373391duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#373394school: Physical; duration: 9 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#386648used by: Talent: Warlock; school: Physical; 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.

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