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Shadow Blades

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Shadow Blades

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Instant castTower 100

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

Shadow Blades is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Shadow Blades.

What it does

Shadow Blades is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage. It also casts Shadow Blades (record #255870).

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
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Shadow Blades

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?

Shadow Blades appears in: 6 spells that cast it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 29 separate Spell records named "Shadow Blades". This page is record #257702. 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
#255870duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#255880effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255881effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255882effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255883effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255884effect types: effect 148A different effect setup
#255903effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#255904effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#255905effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#255906effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#255907effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#258932duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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