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Wave of Corruption

Spell

Wave of Corruption

NatureShadow

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Instant castFive Hundred Yards

G'huun unleashes a wave of decay that radiates away from him.

Wave of Corruption

Tooltip

G'huun unleashes a wave of decay that radiates away from him. Any player touching the wave causes a noxious explosion that inflicts 15 Plague damage to all players, knocking them back and applying to each player.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 15. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Wave of Corruption is a Nature and Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 500 yards. When cast it deals Nature and Shadow damage (base value 15) in a 5 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

SchoolNature, Shadow
Range500 yards (Five Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 15
Radius: 5 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?

Wave of Corruption appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 12 separate Spell records named "Wave of Corruption". This page is record #270428. 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
#76363school: Nature; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#270373school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#270385effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#270386school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#273477effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#273480difficulty rows: Looking For Raid; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#275703school: Physical; effect types: effect 144A different effect setup
#395843school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#395846used by: Cast by Wave of Corruption; school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: effect 149, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#395848used by: Cast by Wave of Corruption; school: Physical; effect types: effect 203A helper record another spell casts
#395849school: Shadow; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, effect 138; 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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