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Nightmare Blast

Spell

Nightmare Blast

Shadow

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Instant castTwo-Hundred Yard Range

Launches a ball of nightmare essence, inflicting 50.378 Shadow damage to players struck and knocking them back.

Nightmare Blast

Tooltip

Launches a ball of nightmare essence, inflicting 50.378 Shadow damage to players struck and knocking them back. This creates a Nightmare Bloom for 1 min.

How it works

Nightmare Blast is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 50.378. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 144, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Summon (effect type 28).

What it does

Nightmare Blast is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 200 yards and effects that last 1 min. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 50.378) in a 5 yard radius and summons a creature.

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
Range200 yards (Two-Hundred Yard Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration1 min
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 50.378
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #2Effect 144
Value: 100
Misc value: 150
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #3Summon (28)
Misc value: 102804, 64

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 Blast appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

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 7 separate Spell records named "Nightmare Blast". This page is record #203153. 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
#187565school: Nature; cast time: 0.8 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#203147duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#203151difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA per-difficulty version
#213162journal encounter: Cenarius; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 45 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#214711school: Physical; duration: 5 min; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#277588school: Nature, Arcane; cast time: 0.8 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; 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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