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Ruination

Spell

Ruination

FireShadow

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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

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met. The aura is spent after 1 procs.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 332. Its base value is 434635.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 0, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 3.
  3. Effect 3 is effect type 0, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 1.

What it does

Ruination is a Fire and Shadow spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 20 sec. 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

SchoolFire, Shadow
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Duration20 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Proc charges1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 332
Value: 434635
Effect #2Effect 0
Value: 3
Effect #3Effect 0
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 9 separate Spell records named "Ruination". This page is record #433885. 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
#249425school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#249429school: Physical; duration: 7 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#249430school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#249453school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#249455journal encounter: Kin'garoth; school: Fire; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#428522used by: Talent: Warlock; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#434635school: Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#434636used by: Cast by Ruination; school: Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane; duration: none; 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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