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Ruination

Spell

Ruination

Physical

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Warlock

Instant castSelf Only

Summoning a Pit Lord causes your next Hand of Gul'dan to become Ruination.

Ruination

Tooltip

Summoning a Pit Lord causes your next Hand of Gul'dan to become Ruination.

Call down a demon-infested meteor from the depths of the Twisting Nether, dealing (2537.9% of Spell Power) Chaos damage on impact to all enemies of the target and summoning 1 Diabolic Imp.

Damage is further increased by your critical strike chance and is reduced beyond 8 targets.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Ruination 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

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?

Ruination appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

  • Ruination for Warlock (Affliction, Demonology, Destruction)
    Hero talent tree: DiabolistTalent

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 9 separate Spell records named "Ruination". This page is record #428522. 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
#249425duration: 8 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#249429duration: 7 secA variant record
#249430duration: until cancelledA variant record
#249453effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#249455journal encounter: Kin'garoth; school: Fire; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#433885school: Fire, Shadow; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 0, effect 0; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#434635school: Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#434636used by: Cast by Ruination; school: Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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