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Shadow Word: Necrosis

Spell

Shadow Word: Necrosis

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1 sec5 min cooldownSelf Only

Afflicts a player with a shadowy contagion reducing healing taken by 70%.

Shadow Word: Necrosis

Tooltip

Afflicts a player with a shadowy contagion reducing healing taken by 70%. Standing within 5 yards of another player for 1 sec causes the contagion to pass to the nearby player and unleashes a.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 5. Its area radius is 200 yards. It triggers Necrotic Blast.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 1. It triggers Necrotic Blast.

What it does

Shadow Word: Necrosis is a Shadow spell with a 1 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and a 5 min cooldown. It also casts Necrotic Blast.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast time1 sec
Cooldown5 min
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 5
Radius: 200 yards
Trigger spell: Necrotic Blast
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 1
Trigger spell: Necrotic Blast

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Shadow Word: Necrosis appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Shadow Word: Necrosis". This page is record #470599. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#470600used by: Cast by Shadow Word: Necrosis; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#470601cast time: instant; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#470625cast time: instant; effect types: effect 164, effect 164; 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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