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Banshee Scream

Spell

Banshee Scream

Shadow

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Sylvanas lets forth a shrill scream, inflicting damage based on each targeted player's health, starting at 16.5 Shadow damage at full health, increasing to 55 Shadow damage, to players of each...

Banshee Scream

Tooltip

Sylvanas lets forth a shrill scream, inflicting damage based on each targeted player's health, starting at 16.5 Shadow damage at full health, increasing to 55 Shadow damage, to players of each targeted player, silencing for 4 sec.

How it works

Banshee Scream is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 55.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 30.

What it does

Banshee Scream is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 55).

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

SchoolShadow
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 55
Effect #2Dummy (3)
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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Banshee Scream appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

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 7 separate Spell records named "Banshee Scream". This page is record #353955. 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
#353951used by: Cast by Banshee Scream; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#353952cast time: 5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#353956difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; duration: 9 sec; effect types: Interrupt Cast; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#353957difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Banshee Scream; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#353958used by: Cast by Banshee Scream; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#357720duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA 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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