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Shadow Blades

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Shadow Blades

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Instant castSelf Only

Your damaging spells have a chance to conjure 6 Shadow Blades.

Shadow Blades

Tooltip

Your damaging spells have a chance to conjure 6 Shadow Blades. After 2 sec, the swords begin launching forward, each dealing Shadow damage to the first enemy in their path and increasing damage taken from your subsequent Shadow Blades by 10% for 3 sec,.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met. It can proc at most once every 6 sec.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. Its base value is 1. It triggers Shadow Blades.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 6.

What it does

Shadow Blades is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Shadow Blades (record #255857).

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
Proc chanceAlways
Proc cooldown6 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Value: 1
Trigger spell: Shadow Blades
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 6
Misc value: 6, 6

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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 29 separate Spell records named "Shadow Blades". This page is record #253263. 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
#253264duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#253265duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#255819duration: 0.2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#255846effect types: effect 148; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#255847effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#255856used by: Cast by Shadow Blades; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#255857used by: Cast by Shadow Blades; effect types: Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#255870used by: Cast by Shadow Blades; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#255880effect types: effect 148; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#255881effect types: effect 148; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#255882effect types: effect 148; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#255883effect types: effect 148; 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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