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Caustic Waves

Spell

Caustic Waves

Nature

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

Ula'tek sends waves of venom across the platform, inflicting 75 Nature damage on impact and an additional 7 Nature damage every 1 sec for 10 sec to players in their path.

Caustic Waves

Tooltip

Ula'tek sends waves of venom across the platform, inflicting 75 Nature damage on impact and an additional 7 Nature damage every 1 sec for 10 sec to players in their path. This effect stacks.

Waves that connect with Ula'tek's eggs cause them to instantly hatch.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 75.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 7 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 10 times over the full 10 sec (70 base in total).

What it does

Caustic Waves is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 75) and applies an aura every 1 sec. It stacks up to 99 times.

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
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Max stacks99
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 75
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 7
Period: every 1 sec

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 Waves appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Build history

this spell Changelog

Added in patch 12.1.0.

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 22 separate Spell records named "Caustic Waves". This page is record #1292403. 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
#1292188duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1292196duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1292209duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1292211cast time: 4.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1292235effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#1298570cast time: 2.4 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1298616difficulty rows: Mythic; school: Shadow; duration: 16 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA per-difficulty version
#1298685duration: 12 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#1298687duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1303622duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1308459duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1308460duration: none; effect types: Dummy; 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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