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Tainted Essence

Spell

Tainted Essence

Frost

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

The expelled Taint of the Sea leaves behind a Tainted Essence, which explodes after a short time, inflicting 160.09 Frost damage to enemies.

Tainted Essence

Tooltip

The expelled Taint of the Sea leaves behind a Tainted Essence, which explodes after a short time, inflicting 160.09 Frost damage to enemies.

How it works

Tainted Essence is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 160.09. Its area radius is 8 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 144, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 150. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Tainted Essence is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 300 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 160.09) in an 8 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

SchoolFrost
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 160.09
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #2Effect 144
Value: 150
Misc value: 150
Radius: 8 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?

Tainted Essence appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

  • Helya in Trial of Valor
    Journal section: Stage One: Low Tide > Helya > Taint of the Sea; Stage Three: Helheim's Last Stand > Helya > Taint of the Sea
    Encounter creatures: HelyaRaid boss ability

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 8 separate Spell records named "Tainted Essence". This page is record #228051. 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
#202470effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#202472effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#228052effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#232679used by: Cast by Tainted Essence; effect types: School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#232681effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#240728journal encounter: Fallen Avatar; school: Shadow; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#242081school: Shadow; effect types: Instakill; different tooltip textA 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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