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Shadow Wave

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Shadow Wave

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Instant castMedium Range

Your melee attacks have a chance to unleash 4 Shadow Waves that deal Shadow damage to enemies in their path.

Shadow Wave

Tooltip

Your melee attacks have a chance to unleash 4 Shadow Waves that deal Shadow damage to enemies in their path. The waves travel 15 yards away from you, and then return.

How it works

Shadow Wave is built from 4 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  3. Effect 3 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  4. Effect 4 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Shadow Wave is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 7329
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 7331
Effect #3Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 7332
Effect #4Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 7335

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 Wave appears in: 1 spell that casts 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 21 separate Spell records named "Shadow Wave". This page is record #215058. 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
#39016cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#215047duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#215089duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#238650duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#238652effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#238653difficulty rows: Heroic; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#238654school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#238655school: Physical; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#238656difficulty rows: Mythic, Timewalking; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#458873school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458874school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458875duration: 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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