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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 causes an explosion, inflicting 164.568 Shadow damage to the target and all players, knocking them back.

How it works

Shadowy Blades is built from 4 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 164.568. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 3.
  4. Effect 4 is effect type 144, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Shadowy Blades is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 164.568) in a 10 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
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 164.568
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 3
Effect #4Effect 144
Value: 100
Misc value: 100
Radius: 10 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.

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 #240970. 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; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#236573school: Physical; 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; effect types: effect 254A different effect setup
#236593school: Physical; effect types: effect 203A different effect setup
#236604difficulty rows: Heroic; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#237666duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#238460school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#239419effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#239422school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#241588school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#242004school: Physical; 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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