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Burning Pitch

Spell

Burning Pitch

Fire

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3 secAnywhere - Unlimited

Throws gob of burning pitch that sets the target area aflame, inflicting 800000 Siege damage and an additional 172.264 Fire damage over 10 sec.

Burning Pitch

Tooltip

Throws gob of burning pitch that sets the target area aflame, inflicting 800000 Siege damage and an additional 172.264 Fire damage over 10 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 70374.

What it does

Burning Pitch is a Fire spell with a 3 sec cast and an unlimited range.

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

SchoolFire
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast time3 sec
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 70374

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 30 separate Spell records named "Burning Pitch". This page is record #71339. 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
#69660cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#70374cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#70383cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#70397cast time: instant; effect values: 71339 (this record: 70374)Different tuning
#70403cast time: instant; effect values: 71335 (this record: 70374)Different tuning
#71030school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 70374); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#71335cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 70383 (this record: 70374); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#122259cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#148181school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#148184used by: Cast by Burning Pitch; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#148208cast time: instant; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#155426cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; 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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