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Wailing Souls

Spell

Wailing Souls

Physical

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Instant cast2 min 30 sec cooldownSelf Only

Surround yourself with wailing souls to prevent 50% of damage taken for 10 sec, up to total damage.

Wailing Souls

Tooltip

Surround yourself with wailing souls to prevent 50% of damage taken for 10 sec, up to total damage. The cooldown of this ability is reduced by up to 30 sec, based on the amount of damage absorbed.

How it works

Spells that share its cooldown category wait 10 sec after it is cast. It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

Wailing Souls is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 69.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 50.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 30.

What it does

Wailing Souls is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 150 sec cooldown and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura.

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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown150 sec
Category cooldown10 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 69
Misc value: 127
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 50
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 30

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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 9 separate Spell records named "Wailing Souls". This page is record #242609. 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
#68871used by: Cast by Wailing Souls; duration: none; effect types: effect 77; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#68873school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#68875duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#68876duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#68899cast time: 3 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#68912journal encounter: Devourer of Souls; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#236072school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#236075journal encounter: The Desolate Host; school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster

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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