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Burrowing Charge

Spell

Burrowing Charge

Physical

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

The caster burrows beneath the ground, reducing damage taken by 99% for 8 sec.

Burrowing Charge

Tooltip

The caster burrows beneath the ground, reducing damage taken by 99% for 8 sec. While burrowed, the caster periodically charges at players, inflicting 30 Physical damage to players hit and knocking them back.

How it works

Burrowing Charge is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 30.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 150.

What it does

Burrowing Charge is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 30) and has a Knock Back effect.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 30
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 150
Misc value: 150

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 7 separate Spell records named "Burrowing Charge". This page is record #448274. 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
#448269cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#448270used by: Cast by Burrowing Charge; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#448271used by: Cast by Burrowing Charge; effect types: effect 254A helper record another spell casts
#1299130school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1299135school: Nature; duration: 0.5 sec; effect types: effect 254, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1300083journal encounter: The Writhing Coil; school: Nature; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster

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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