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Shadow Nova

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Shadow Nova

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0.5 secSelf Only

Dark magic is unleashed, causing 23.5473 Shadow damage and knocking back all enemies.

Shadow Nova

Tooltip

Dark magic is unleashed, causing 23.5473 Shadow damage and knocking back all enemies.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 23.5473. Its area radius is 50000 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 75. Its area radius is 50000 yards.

What it does

Shadow Nova is a Shadow spell with a 0.5 sec cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 23.5473) in a 50000 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 50000 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 time0.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 23.5473
Radius: 50000 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 75
Misc value: 125
Radius: 50000 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 74 separate Spell records named "Shadow Nova". This page is record #83703. 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
#60851cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62714cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#63723cast time: instant; effect values: 35.69, 100 (this record: 23.55, 75); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#65209cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#65719cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#69355cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#70663cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#75073cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 40, 125 (this record: 23.55, 75); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#76588cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#82883school: Physical; cast time: 10 sec; effect types: effect 165; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#99715cast time: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#105485cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297, 125 (this record: 23.55, 75); 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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