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Tainted Essence

Spell

Tainted Essence

Frost

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

Taints a target, inflicting 2.35097 Frost damage every second for 21 sec.

Tainted Essence

Tooltip

Taints a target, inflicting 2.35097 Frost damage every second for 21 sec. When this aura is removed, the taint explodes, inflicting 9.51585 Frost damage to all players.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). It triggers Tainted Essence.

What it does

Tainted Essence is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 300 yards. When cast it launches a missile. It also casts Tainted Essence (record #228051).

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 #1Trigger Missile (32)
Trigger spell: Tainted Essence

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 8 separate Spell records named "Tainted Essence". This page is record #228052. 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
#202470no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#202472journal encounter: Helya; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#228051journal encounter: Helya; effect types: School Damage, effect 144; different tooltip textA different caster
#232679used by: Cast by Tainted Essence; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#232681different tooltip textA variant record
#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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