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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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its area radius is 55 yards.

What it does

Shadow Blades is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 0.2 sec. When cast it applies an aura in a 55 yard radius.

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
Duration0.2 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Radius: 55 yards

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 29 separate Spell records named "Shadow Blades". This page is record #255819. 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
#255846duration: none; effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255847duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#255856used by: Cast by Shadow Blades; duration: 2 sec; effect values: 1 (this record: 0)A helper record another spell casts
#255857used by: Cast by Shadow Blades; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Spell, Trigger SpellA helper record another spell casts
#255870used by: Cast by Shadow Blades; duration: 3 sec; effect values: 100 (this record: 0)A helper record another spell casts
#255880duration: none; effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255881duration: none; effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255882duration: none; effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255883duration: none; effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255884duration: none; effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255903duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#255904duration: none; effect types: DummyA 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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