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Shadow Blast

Spell

Shadow Blast

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2.5 secLong Range

Blasts the target with dark energy, inflicting Shadow damage.

Shadow Blast

Tooltip

Blasts the target with dark energy, inflicting Shadow damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 125.

What it does

Shadow Blast is a Shadow spell with a 2.5 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 125).

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time2.5 sec
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 125

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 62 separate Spell records named "Shadow Blast". This page is record #251028. 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
#232511cast time: instant; effect types: effect 165; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#234011cast time: instant; duration: 5 min; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#234018cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#234413cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#235391cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 500 (this record: 125); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#236233cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#236242journal encounter: Mephistroth; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#236278cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#241049cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#241788cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#242913cast time: 3 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#242914cast time: instant; effect values: 200 (this record: 125); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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