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Drains (7.5% of Spell Power) health from all nearby enemies.
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How it works
Each cast of Consuming Shadows costs 20 Energy. Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.
- Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). It scales with 0.075 times spell power. Its area radius is 12 yards.
What it does
Consuming Shadows is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it drains health from the target in a 12 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
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Cost | 20 Energy |
| Range | Self Only |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | Health Leech (9) Spell power coefficient: 0.075 Radius: 12 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?
Consuming Shadows appears in: 2 skill lines.
Skill lines
- Pet - Voidwalker, learned automaticallySkill line
- Voidlord, learned automaticallySkill line
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Pet - Voidwalker spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 29 separate Spell records named "Consuming Shadows". This page is record #3716. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.
| Record | What differs from this record | Likely reason |
|---|---|---|
| #17715 | duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #17716 | used by: Cast by Consuming Shadows; duration: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #24614 | duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #24615 | used by: Cast by Consuming Shadows; duration: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #69405 | cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #151245 | used by: Cast by Consuming Shadows; school: Physical; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect | A helper record another spell casts |
| #151246 | school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Missile | A different effect setup |
| #151285 | school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Missile | A different effect setup |
| #151288 | duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #224196 | used by: Cast by Consuming Shadows; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #224197 | duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #304879 | used by: Cast by Consuming Shadows; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura | A 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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