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Spell
Barkskin
Nature
DruidYour skin becomes as tough as bark, reducing all damage you take by 20%, increasing healing received by 20%,, increasing maximum health by 20%, and preventing damage from delaying your spellcasts.
Tooltip
Your skin becomes as tough as bark, reducing all damage you take by 20%, increasing healing received by 20%,, increasing maximum health by 20%, and preventing damage from delaying your spellcasts. Lasts 8 sec.
Usable while stunned, frozen, incapacitated, feared, or asleep, and in all shapeshift forms.
How it works
It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.
Barkskin is built from 6 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 87. Its base value is -20.
- Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 149. Its base value is 100.
- Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. It ticks every 1 sec, 8 times over the full 8 sec.
- Effect 4 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 118.
- Effect 5 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 31.
- Effect 6 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 133.
What it does
Barkskin is a Nature spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 1 min cooldown and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it applies an aura and applies an aura every 1 sec.
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
| School | Nature |
|---|---|
| Range | Self Only |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Cooldown | 1 min |
| Global cooldown | None |
| Duration | 8 sec |
| Proc chance | Always |
| Effect #1 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 87 Value: -20 Misc value: 127 |
| Effect #2 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 149 Value: 100 Misc value: 127, 15 |
| Effect #3 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 226 Period: every 1 sec |
| Effect #4 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 118 Misc value: 127 |
| Effect #5 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 31 |
| Effect #6 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 133 |
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?
Barkskin appears in: 1 skill line.
Skill lines
- Druid, learned automaticallySkill line
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Druid spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Barkskin". This page is record #22812. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #20655 | duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #173558 | duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #182872 | duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #368364 | effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A 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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