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Ruin

Spell

Ruin

Shadow

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Sylvanas lays waste to the area, inflicting 500 Shadow damage to all players.

Ruin

Tooltip

Sylvanas lays waste to the area, inflicting 500 Shadow damage to all players. This damage cannot be mitigated or avoided.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 500.

What it does

Ruin is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 500).

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 500

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?

Ruin appears in: 2 spells that cast it.

Spells that cast it

  • Ruin (record #355545)Triggers this spell
  • Ruin (record #355588)Triggers this spell

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 19 separate Spell records named "Ruin". This page is record #355546. 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
#211383effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#279947school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#279948school: Fire; duration: 168 hr; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#309852journal encounter: Ra-den the Despoiled; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 164; different tooltip textA different caster
#309854school: Nature, Shadow; effect values: 12 (this record: 500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#350447school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#351228school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#355540journal encounter: Sylvanas Windrunner; cast time: 5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#355545effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#355587effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#355588effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#387103used 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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