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Burrowing Strike

Spell

Burrowing Strike

Physical

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Instant castLong Range

The caster burrows into the ground and resurfaces nearby, inflicting Physical damage to players and knocking them back.

Burrowing Strike

Tooltip

The caster burrows into the ground and resurfaces nearby, inflicting Physical damage to players and knocking them back.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 200. Its area radius is 8 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 125. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Burrowing Strike is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 200) in an 8 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in an 8 yard radius.

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 200
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 125
Misc value: 150
Radius: 8 yards

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?

Burrowing Strike appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 6 separate Spell records named "Burrowing Strike". This page is record #457461. 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
#376266journal encounter: Broodkeeper Diurna; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#376272cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#376274effect types: effect 96; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#457455effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#457458cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Teleport, Trigger SpellA 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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