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Burning Blades

Spell

Burning Blades

Physical

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Demon Hunter

Instant castSelf Only

Your blades burn with Fel energy, causing the damage from Chaos Strike, Throw Glaive, Blade Dance's First Blood, and auto-attacks to burn for an additional 35% damage as Fire over 6 sec.

Burning Blades

Tooltip

Your blades burn with Fel energy, causing the damage from Chaos Strike, Throw Glaive, Blade Dance's First Blood, and auto-attacks to burn for an additional 35% damage as Fire over 6 sec.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Burning Blades is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 35.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 35.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 108. Its base value is 20.

What it does

Burning Blades is a spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 35
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 35
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 108
Value: 20

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?

Burning Blades appears in: 2 talents.

Talents

  • Burning Blades for Demon Hunter (Havoc, Vengeance, Devourer)
    Hero talent tree: Fel-ScarredTalent
  • Burning Blades for Demon Hunter (Havoc, Vengeance, Devourer) (definition #141383)
    Hero talent tree: Void-ScarredTalent

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 13 separate Spell records named "Burning Blades". This page is record #452408. 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
#90759duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#185839school: Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Spawn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#185840school: Fire; effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#185841used by: Cast by Burning Blades; school: Fire; effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#201077school: Fire; cast time: 1.1 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#224603school: Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#240280school: Shadow; duration: 9 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#241970cast time: 0.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#241972school: Fire; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#406163effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#453177school: Fire; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1245654school: Holy, Nature, Shadow, Arcane; duration: 6 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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