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Swallowing Darkness

Spell

Swallowing Darkness

Shadow

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4 secVision Range (AOI)

Ulgrax emerges from the Swallowing Darkness rift to sate his hunger.

Swallowing Darkness

Tooltip

Ulgrax emerges from the Swallowing Darkness rift to sate his hunger. The Darkness inflicts 95 Shadow damage to players in the area and destroys.

How it works

Swallowing Darkness is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 95. Its area radius is 30 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 150. Its area radius is 30 yards.

What it does

Swallowing Darkness is a Shadow spell with a 4 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 95) in a 30 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 30 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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast time4 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 95
Radius: 30 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 150
Misc value: 200
Radius: 30 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 7 separate Spell records named "Swallowing Darkness". This page is record #451412. 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
#443831school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#443833school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: TeleportA different effect setup
#443842journal encounter: Ulgrax the Devourer; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#445980school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#451409school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#451411used by: Cast by Swallowing Darkness; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: TeleportA helper record another spell casts

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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