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Seed of Corruption

Spell

Seed of Corruption

Shadow

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Warlock

2 secMedium Range

Imbeds a demon seed in the enemy target, causing 3600 Shadow damage over 18 sec.

Seed of Corruption

Tooltip

Imbeds a demon seed in the enemy target, causing 3600 Shadow damage over 18 sec. When the target takes 2500 total damage, the seed will detonate, inflicting Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards of the target.

How it works

Each cast of Seed of Corruption costs 550 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Seed of Corruption is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 600 per tick. It scales with 0.167 times spell power. It ticks every 3 sec, 6 times over the full 18 sec (3600 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 2500.
  3. Effect 3 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 75.

What it does

Seed of Corruption is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 18 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 3 sec, applies an aura and has a Knock Back effect.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Cost550 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration18 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 600
Spell power coefficient: 0.167
Period: every 3 sec
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 2500
Effect #3Knock Back (98)
Value: 75
Misc value: 35

Raw client values from the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. 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 17 separate Spell records named "Seed of Corruption". This page is record #39367. 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
#27243subtext: Rank 1; used by: Talent: Warlock; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#27285subtext: Rank 1; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different rank or variant
#32863used by: Cast by Seed of Corruption Proc; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#32865cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#36123no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#37826cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#38252effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#43991subtext: Rank 1; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different rank or variant
#44141effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#70388effect types: noneA different effect setup
#196208effect types: noneA different effect setup
#211503effect types: noneA 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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