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Shadow Word: Necrosis

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Shadow Word: Necrosis

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. It ticks every 0.2 sec, 8 times over the full 2 sec.

What it does

Shadow Word: Necrosis is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 2 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 0.2 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
Duration2 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Period: every 0.2 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 4 separate Spell records named "Shadow Word: Necrosis". This page is record #470601. 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
#470599journal encounter: Emperor Dagran Thaurissan; cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#470600used by: Cast by Shadow Word: Necrosis; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#470625duration: none; effect types: effect 164, effect 164A 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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