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Shadow Blade

Spell

Shadow Blade

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Instant castSelf Only

Strikes an enemy with a shadowy blade, corrupting the ground beneath them for 10 sec.

Shadow Blade

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a shadowy blade, corrupting the ground beneath them for 10 sec. Enemies within the corrupted ground suffer Shadow damage every second.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 0.7837 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 10 times over the full 10 sec (7.84 base in total).

What it does

Shadow Blade is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 0.7837
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 5 separate Spell records named "Shadow Blade". This page is record #200662. 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
#121473duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#200647cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#274061duration: none; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#277524school: Shadow, Arcane; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % DamageA 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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