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PhysicalTooltip
Marks a player for assassination, inflicting 100% of a target's maximum health as Shadow damage after 5 sec.
What it does
Assassinate is a spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. It also casts Assassinate (record #341586), Assassinate (record #341861) and Vanish.
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 facts
SchoolPhysical
Cast timeInstant
RangeVision Range (AOI)
Spell ID341859Datamined from the current retail game build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | 100 yards (Vision Range (AOI)) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Effect #1 | Dummy (3) Trigger spell: Assassinate |
| Effect #2 | Trigger Spell (64) Trigger spell: Assassinate |
| Effect #3 | Trigger Spell (64) Trigger spell: Vanish |
| Effect #4 | Effect 93 |
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.
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 21 separate Spell records named "Assassinate". This page is record #341859. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #179792 | used by: Cast by Sneaking with Garona; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #179796 | cast time: 0.5 sec; effect types: Instakill; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #325395 | used by: Cast by Weave Shadowclones; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy | A helper record another spell casts |
| #333406 | journal encounter: Domina Venomblade; school: Nature; duration: 30 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different caster |
| #341586 | used by: Cast by Assassinate; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #341587 | used by: Cast by Assassinate; school: Shadow; effect types: effect 165, Teleport, Trigger Spell; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #341861 | used by: Cast by Assassinate; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 93 | A helper record another spell casts |
| #411073 | effect types: Teleport, Dummy; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #411083 | duration: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #415616 | effect types: Instakill; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #415617 | effect types: Dummy, effect 140; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #415637 | used by: Cast by Assassinate; effect types: Dummy | A 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.