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Auto Attack

Spell

Auto Attack

Physical

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Instant castTwenty yards

Attacks the enemy.

Auto Attack

Tooltip

Attacks the enemy.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Auto Attack is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage.

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
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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 9 separate Spell records named "Auto Attack". This page is record #463303. 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
#6603used by: GENERIC (DND); effect types: effect 78; different tooltip textA different owner
#305741duration: until cancelled; effect types: Weapon Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#305747duration: until cancelled; effect types: Weapon Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#305751duration: until cancelled; effect types: Weapon Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#305755duration: until cancelled; effect types: Weapon Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#305758duration: until cancelled; effect types: Weapon Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308612used by: Cast by Auto Attack Override; school: Shadow; effect types: Weapon % DamageA helper record another spell casts
#419591no compared field differsA duplicate client 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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