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Shadow Wave

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Shadow Wave

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

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

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met. It can proc at most once every 10 sec.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. It triggers Shadow Wave.

What it does

Shadow Wave is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Shadow Wave (record #215058).

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 (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Proc cooldown10 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Trigger spell: Shadow Wave

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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 21 separate Spell records named "Shadow Wave". This page is record #215089. 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
#215047effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#215058used by: Cast by Shadow Wave; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#238650effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#238652duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#238653difficulty rows: Heroic; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#238654school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#238655used by: Cast by Shadow Wave; school: Physical; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#238656difficulty rows: Mythic, Timewalking; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#458873school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458874school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458875duration: until cancelled; effect values: 10 (this record: 0); 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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