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Assassination

Spell

Assassination

Physical

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

The ethereal marks several players for their assassination.

Assassination

Tooltip

The ethereal marks several players for their assassination. After 8 sec, the ethereal rapidly shadowsteps to each target and eviscerates them, inflicting 40 Shadow damage and injecting Queensbane.

The ethereal's shadowy figure resonates, creating a at each location.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 8. Its area radius is 150 yards.

What it does

Assassination is a spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 8
Radius: 150 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 12 separate Spell records named "Assassination". This page is record #442573. 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
#88812effect types: Instakill; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#201345effect types: Quest Complete, effect 90, effect 139, effect 139A different effect setup
#223582effect types: Quest Complete, effect 139, effect 139, effect 90A different effect setup
#226392effect types: Quest Complete, effect 139, effect 139, effect 90A different effect setup
#436867journal encounter: Nexus-Princess Ky'veza; different tooltip textA different caster
#436870duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#436923school: Shadow; duration: 0.5 sec; effect types: effect 254, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#436934school: Shadow; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#436963duration: 40 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#436971cast time: 2 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#440650different tooltip textA variant record

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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