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Whirling Blade

Spell

Whirling Blade

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

Hurls a blade at a player's location, inflicting 120000 Physical damage to all enemies in its path.

Whirling Blade

Tooltip

Hurls a blade at a player's location, inflicting 120000 Physical damage to all enemies in its path. After the blade reaches its destination it will return to Mel'jarak, inflicting 120000 Physical damage to all players in its return path.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 120000. Its area radius is 50 yards.

What it does

Whirling Blade is a Physical spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 120000) in a 50 yard radius.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 120000
Radius: 50 yards

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Whirling Blade appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

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 35 separate Spell records named "Whirling Blade". This page is record #121898. 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
#91294duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#91295effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#121896cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#121897effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#122083effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#124850effect types: effect 140A different effect setup
#124851duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#127941cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Summon, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#127946duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#127949school: Fire; different tooltip textA variant record
#198641journal encounter: Lord Kur'talos Ravencrest; effect types: noneA different caster
#198781effect 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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