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Nightmare Blades

Spell

Nightmare Blades

Physical

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Instant castLonger Range

Xavius causes a wall of blades to erupt from the ground, inflicting 8 Physical damage to players in the area and knocking them back.

Nightmare Blades

Tooltip

Xavius causes a wall of blades to erupt from the ground, inflicting 8 Physical damage to players in the area and knocking them back.

This damage ignores armor.

How it works

Nightmare Blades is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 8. 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

Nightmare Blades is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 8) 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

SchoolPhysical
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 8
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?

Nightmare Blades 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 17 separate Spell records named "Nightmare Blades". This page is record #342488. 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
#209000effect types: Dummy, DummyA different effect setup
#209001duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#209118duration: 3 min; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#211579effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#211802duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#341552effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#341553duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#341554cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#341560effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#341562effect values: 25.15, 100 (this record: 8, 100); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#342312cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#342486effect types: Trigger MissileA 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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