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Suffocating Dark

Spell

Suffocating Dark

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Shrouds a random player in suffocating darkness, inflicting 39.1829 Shadow damage and 10 Torment every 1 sec, and slowing movement speed by 50%.

Suffocating Dark

Tooltip

Shrouds a random player in suffocating darkness, inflicting 39.1829 Shadow damage and 10 Torment every 1 sec, and slowing movement speed by 50%.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Suffocating Dark is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 15 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
Duration15 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 9488

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 3 separate Spell records named "Suffocating Dark". This page is record #233894. 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
#233895journal encounter: Demonic Inquisition; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different caster
#233901difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version

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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