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Shadow Wave

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Shadow Wave

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3 sec4 sec cooldownVision Range (AOI)

A cresting wave of chaotic magic splashes over enemies in front of the caster, dealing 141.058 Shadow damage.

Shadow Wave

Tooltip

A cresting wave of chaotic magic splashes over enemies in front of the caster, dealing 141.058 Shadow damage. It also leaves shadow puddles in the area that inflict 5.59756 Shadow damage every 1 sec.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 141.059. Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Shadow Wave is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast, a range of 100 yards and a 4 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 141.059) in a 100 yard radius. It stacks up to 99 times.

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 time3 sec
Cooldown4 sec
Global cooldownNone
Proc chanceAlways
Max stacks99
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 141.059
Radius: 100 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 21 separate Spell records named "Shadow Wave". This page is record #238653. 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
#215047cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#215058used by: Cast by Shadow Wave; cast time: instant; 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
#215089cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#238650cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#238652cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#238654school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#238655used by: Cast by Shadow Wave; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#238656difficulty rows: Mythic, Timewalking; cast time: instant; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#458873school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458874school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458875cast time: instant; duration: 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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