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Nightmares

Spell

Nightmares

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

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

Nightmares

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

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 70.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 1.

What it does

Nightmares is a spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 70
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
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 19 separate Spell records named "Nightmares". This page is record #200177. 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
#122775effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#122777difficulty rows: 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); used by: Cast by Nightmares; school: Shadow; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#191641used by: Cast by Infest; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#191642difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic; school: Shadow; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#193069school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205661duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#205662used by: Cast by Nightmares; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#209709duration: 5 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209905duration: 90 sec; effect types: Summon, Apply Aura, effect 170, effect 164; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#214712school: Shadow; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#221791duration: 2 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#224502effect types: DummyA 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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