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Shadow Wave

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Shadow Wave

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

A cresting wave of chaotic magic splashes over enemies in front of the caster, dealing 98.7409 Shadow damage.

Shadow Wave

Tooltip

A cresting wave of chaotic magic splashes over enemies in front of the caster, dealing 98.7409 Shadow damage. It also leaves shadow puddles in the area that inflict 5.59756 Shadow damage every 1 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 5.5976 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 45 times over the full 45 sec (251.89 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 260.

What it does

Shadow Wave is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 45 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec and applies an aura.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Duration45 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 5.5976
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 260
Misc value: 1364, 7

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 #238656. 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 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
#215089duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#238650duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#238652duration: 10 sec; effect 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
#238655used by: Cast by Shadow Wave; school: Physical; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#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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