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Shadow Wave

Spell

Shadow Wave

Physical

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Instant castLonger Range

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

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its base value is 50. Its area radius is 0.5 yards.

What it does

Shadow Wave is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 45 yards and effects that last 27 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect in a 0.5 yard radius.

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

SchoolPhysical
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration27 sec
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Value: 50
Misc value: 34122
Radius: 0.5 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 #458876. 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
#215047school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#215058used by: Cast by Shadow Wave; school: Shadow; 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
#215089school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#238650school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#238652school: Shadow; duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#238653difficulty rows: Heroic; school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#238654duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#238655used by: Cast by Shadow Wave; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#238656difficulty rows: Mythic, Timewalking; school: Shadow; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#458873duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458874cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, DummyA different effect setup
#458875school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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