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Unstable Affliction

Spell

Unstable Affliction

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Afflicts the target with (417.3% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 8 sec.

Unstable Affliction

Tooltip

Afflicts the target with (417.3% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 8 sec. Multiple uses of this ability may overlap.

If dispelled, deals damage to the dispeller and silences them for 4 sec. This damage is increased by 15% per stack on the target.

Generates 1 Soul Shards if the target dies while afflicted.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Unstable Affliction is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage.

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 timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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 34 separate Spell records named "Unstable Affliction". This page is record #1261176. 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
#285143duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#285144duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#285145duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#285146duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#285148cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#285155duration: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#334315subtext: Rank 3; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#418561cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1218349cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1218350duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1219045duration: 12 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1259790used by: Talent: Warlock; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner

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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