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Shadow Word: Necrosis

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Shadow Word: Necrosis

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Instant castTwo-Hundred Yard Range

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

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 164, which the datamine does not name. Its area radius is 200 yards. It triggers Shadow Word: Necrosis.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 164, which the datamine does not name. Its area radius is 200 yards. It triggers Lingering Necrosis.

What it does

Shadow Word: Necrosis is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 200 yards. It also casts Shadow Word: Necrosis (record #470600) and Lingering Necrosis. It stacks up to 100 times.

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
Range200 yards (Two-Hundred Yard Range)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Max stacks100
Effect #1Effect 164
Radius: 200 yards
Trigger spell: Shadow Word: Necrosis
Effect #2Effect 164
Radius: 200 yards
Trigger spell: Lingering Necrosis

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 #470625. 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; 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
#470601duration: 2 sec; 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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