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Unleash Darkness

Spell

Unleash Darkness

Shadow

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5 sec4 sec cooldownSelf Only

Unleashes the darkness within the caster, inflicting 20 Shadow damage to all players hit.

Unleash Darkness

Tooltip

Unleashes the darkness within the caster, inflicting 20 Shadow damage to all players hit. The radius of the darkness increases with each stack.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 472765.

What it does

Unleash Darkness is a Shadow spell with a 5 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and a 4 sec cooldown.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast time5 sec
Cooldown4 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 472765

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 "Unleash Darkness". This page is record #474104. 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
#254394cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#474107school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#474123cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#474519effect values: 0 (this record: 472765)Different tuning
#1214628cast time: instant; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1214631used by: Cast by Unleash Darkness; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA 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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