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Brain Link

Spell

Brain Link

Shadow

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Links the brains of two enemy targets.

Brain Link

Tooltip

Links the brains of two enemy targets. Afflicted targets suffer 14.2743 Shadow damage and lose 2% Sanity every 1 sec. whenever they are more than 20 yards apart.

How it works

Brain Link is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 14.2743. It scales with 1 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Brain Link is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 14.2743).

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: 14.2743
Spell power coefficient: 1
Effect #2Effect 77

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 3 separate Spell records named "Brain Link". This page is record #63803. 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
#63802journal encounter: Yogg-Saron; school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#63804effect types: DummyA 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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