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Burning Tar

Spell

Burning Tar

Fire

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Hurls a bomb of burning tar that explodes at a random enemy's destination, inflicting 10.1258 Fire damage to nearby enemies on impact and an additional 10 Fire damage to enemies that remain within...

Burning Tar

Tooltip

Hurls a bomb of burning tar that explodes at a random enemy's destination, inflicting 10.1258 Fire damage to nearby enemies on impact and an additional 10 Fire damage to enemies that remain within the pool.

How it works

Burning Tar is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 10 per tick. It ticks every 1.5 sec, 80 times over the full 2 min (800 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 260.

What it does

Burning Tar is a Fire spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 2 min. When cast it applies an aura every 1.5 sec and 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

SchoolFire
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration2 min
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 10
Period: every 1.5 sec
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 260
Misc value: 1631, 7

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 14 separate Spell records named "Burning Tar". This page is record #256663. 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
#14797used by: Cast by Burning Tar; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#62290used by: Cast by Blaze; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#111736school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#254932school: Physical; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#254933used by: Cast by Burning Tar; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#254934duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#254944school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#256640duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#256641duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#256660used by: Cast by Burning Tar; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#358947journal encounter: Timecap'n Hooktail; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 15, 0 (this record: 10, 0); different tooltip textA different caster
#358951used by: Cast by Grapeshot; school: Physical; duration: 90 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts

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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