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Shadow Wave

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Shadow Wave

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Unleashes a growing wave of shadow that inflicts 18.8 Shadow damage to all players in its wake.

Shadow Wave

Tooltip

Unleashes a growing wave of shadow that inflicts 18.8 Shadow damage to all players in its wake.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 10 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec.

What it does

Shadow Wave is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec.

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
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 10
Period: every 1 sec

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 #458875. 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
#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 values: 0 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#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; 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; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458874school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, DummyA different effect setup
#458876school: Physical; duration: 27 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area EffectA 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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