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Shadowy Blades

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Shadowy Blades

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

The Fallen Avatar summons forth 3 blades that speed towards random targets.

Shadowy Blades

Tooltip

The Fallen Avatar summons forth 3 blades that speed towards random targets. Each player hit by a blade creates a pool of Lingering Darkness and causes an explosion, inflicting 223.902 Shadow damage to the target and all players.

How it works

Shadowy Blades is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 223.902. Its area radius is 7 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 3.

What it does

Shadowy Blades is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 30 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect and deals Shadow damage (base value 223.902) in a 7 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

SchoolShadow
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Duration30 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 10018
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 223.902
Radius: 7 yards
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 3

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?

Shadowy Blades 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 13 separate Spell records named "Shadowy Blades". This page is record #236604. 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
#236571cast time: 5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#236573school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#236577used by: Cast by Shadowy Blades; school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#236591school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 254A different effect setup
#236593school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 203A different effect setup
#237666duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#238460school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#239419duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#239422school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#240970duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Dummy, effect 144; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#241588school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#242004school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 203A 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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