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Waking Nightmare

Spell

Waking Nightmare

Shadow

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3 secSelf Only

Strikes fear in nearby enemies, inflicting periodic Shadow damage and causing them to flee in terror for 3 sec.

Waking Nightmare

Tooltip

Strikes fear in nearby enemies, inflicting periodic Shadow damage and causing them to flee in terror for 3 sec.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Waking Nightmare is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 7. Its area radius is 50000 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 4.7581 per tick. Its area radius is 50000 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 3 times over the full 3 sec (14.27 base in total).

What it does

Waking Nightmare is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 3 sec. When cast it applies an aura in a 50000 yard radius and applies an aura in a 50000 yard radius every 1 sec. The client files the whole spell under the fleeing mechanic.

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 time3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration3 sec
MechanicFleeing
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 7
Radius: 50000 yards
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 4.7581
Radius: 50000 yards
Period: every 1 sec

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 12 separate Spell records named "Waking Nightmare". This page is record #66552. 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
#96757cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183404school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#200243journal encounter: Shade of Xavius; cast time: instant; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 164; different tooltip textA different caster
#210068school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#221057used by: Cast by Nightmare Bolt; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 140A helper record another spell casts
#313274school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1253461used by: Talent: Druid; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect values: 100, 5 (this record: 0, 4.76); different tooltip textA different owner
#1253462school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1253488school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1253491school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 12 sec; effect values: 0, 0 (this record: 0, 4.76); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#1254168used by: Cast by Waking Nightmare; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Summon; 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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