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Corrosive Poison

Spell

Corrosive Poison

Nature

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1.5 secMedium Range

Reduces an enemy's armor and inflicts Nature damage every 5 sec.

Corrosive Poison

Tooltip

Reduces an enemy's armor and inflicts Nature damage every 5 sec. for 30 sec.

How it works

Its dispel type is client id 4.

Corrosive Poison is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 70. Its base value is 50 per tick. It ticks every 5 sec, 6 times over the full 30 sec (300 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 87. Its base value is 10.

What it does

Corrosive Poison is a Nature spell with a 1.5 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 30 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 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

SchoolNature
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time1.5 sec
Duration30 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 4
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 70
Value: 50
Period: every 5 sec
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 87
Value: 10
Misc value: 1

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 "Corrosive Poison". This page is record #3396. 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
#13526used by: Cast by Hookfang Shanker; cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#24111cast time: instant; effect values: 6.99, -669.34 (this record: 50, 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36694cast time: instant; effect values: 10.23, 15 (this record: 50, 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#46293cast time: instant; duration: 3 min; effect values: 30.21, 10 (this record: 50, 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#50293duration: 12 sec; effect values: 1.03, 10 (this record: 50, 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#144267cast time: instant; effect values: 0, 0 (this record: 50, 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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