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Pain and Suffering

Spell

Pain and Suffering

Shadow

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0.5 secVision Range (AOI)

Deals 12.8469 Shadow damage in a cone effect in front of the caster.

Pain and Suffering

Tooltip

Deals 12.8469 Shadow damage in a cone effect in front of the caster. In addition, the targets will take 2.37905 Shadow damage per second for 3 sec.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Pain and Suffering is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 12.8469. Its area radius is 100 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 2.379 per tick. Its area radius is 100 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 3 times over the full 3 sec (7.14 base in total).

What it does

Pain and Suffering is a Shadow spell with a 0.5 sec cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 3 sec. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 12.8469) in a 100 yard radius and applies an aura in a 100 yard radius every 1 sec. It stacks up to 5 times.

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 time0.5 sec
Duration3 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Max stacks5
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 12.8469
Radius: 100 yards
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 2.379
Radius: 100 yards
Period: every 1 sec

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 10 separate Spell records named "Pain and Suffering". This page is record #72133. 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
#74115cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#74116used by: Cast by Pain and Suffering; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#74117used by: Cast by Pain and Suffering; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#93581difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#93605cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#93608cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#93609cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#390689used by: Talent: Priest; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#1215094school: Physical, Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; 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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