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Soul Vortex

Spell

Soul Vortex

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Drops a cage hungering for souls at his target's location, drawing in enemies and inflicting 8.39634 Shadow damage every second for 6 sec.

Soul Vortex

Tooltip

Drops a cage hungering for souls at his target's location, drawing in enemies and inflicting 8.39634 Shadow damage every second for 6 sec. Enemies caught near the cage are afflicted, increasing Physical damage taken by 100% and suffering 5.59756 Shadow damage every 3 sec for 30 sec. This effect stacks.

Subsequent casts increase the magnitude of the pull effect by 100%. This effect stacks.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its base value is 237670.

What it does

Soul Vortex is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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
Duration6 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Value: 237670
Misc value: 6298

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?

Soul Vortex appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 12 separate Spell records named "Soul Vortex". This page is record #206885. 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
#190693school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#204462school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#204465school: Nature; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#204493school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#204499duration: 20 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#206757duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#206765duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#206883journal encounter: Gul'dan; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, effect 203; different tooltip textA different caster
#206884difficulty rows: Mythic; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA per-difficulty version
#208581school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#295857school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; 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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