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Banshee Wail

Spell

Banshee Wail

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 15.0508 Shadow damage at full health, increasing to 50.1694 Shadow damage, to players of...

Banshee Wail

Tooltip

Sylvanas lets forth a shrill scream, inflicting damage based on each targeted player's health, starting at 15.0508 Shadow damage at full health, increasing to 50.1694 Shadow damage, to players of each targeted player, interrupting for 6 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 50.1694.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 30.

What it does

Banshee Wail is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 50.1694).

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: 50.1694
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 Wail appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

  • Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination
    Journal section: Stage Two: The Banshee Queen > Sylvanas Windrunner; Intermission: A Monument to our Suffering
    Encounter creatures: Sylvanas WindrunnerRaid boss ability

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 25 separate Spell records named "Banshee Wail". This page is record #348109. 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
#284171cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#348094cast time: 5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#348108used by: Cast by Banshee Wail; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#348133used by: Cast by Banshee Wail; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#351252difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; used by: Cast by Banshee Wail; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Interrupt Cast; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#351253duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#355489school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#357719duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#397483used by: Cast by [DNT] Cancel Summons; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#406268school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Spell, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#406324used by: Cast by Banshee Wail; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#406334school: Physical; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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