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Caustic Eruption

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Caustic Eruption

Nature

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2.5 secTower 100

The Caustic Spiderling erupts upon death, inflicting 20 Nature damage to players.

Caustic Eruption

Tooltip

The Caustic Spiderling erupts upon death, inflicting 20 Nature damage to players.

The eruption destroys and removes webbing from the ground as well as and from players struck.

How it works

Caustic Eruption is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 20. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 15. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Caustic Eruption is a Nature spell with a 2.5 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 20) in a 5 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

SchoolNature
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast time2.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 20
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 15
Radius: 5 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?

Caustic Eruption appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 11 separate Spell records named "Caustic Eruption". This page is record #372045. 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
#298956cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#358058school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#358059used by: Cast by Caustic Eruption; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#358060school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#373927school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 2.5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#395363school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#449033school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#449034school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: effect 149; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#449037used by: Cast by Caustic Eruption; cast time: instant; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1290154used by: Cast by Caustic Venom; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA 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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