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Cries of Anguish

Spell

Cries of Anguish

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Cries of Anguish issue forth from the Soul Cages and any Loose Souls.

Cries of Anguish

Tooltip

Cries of Anguish issue forth from the Soul Cages and any Loose Souls.
Victims of their impact take 40 Shadow damage and are knocked back.
The impact leaves a zone of Anguish that will inflict 15 Shadow damage every second.

How it works

Cries of Anguish is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 40. Its area radius is 3 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 144, which the datamine does not name. Its area radius is 3 yards.

What it does

Cries of Anguish is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 40) in a 3 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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 40
Radius: 3 yards
Effect #2Effect 144
Radius: 3 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?

Cries of Anguish appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

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 3 separate Spell records named "Cries of Anguish". This page is record #353752. 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
#353741school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#353754effect types: Trigger Missile, Trigger MissileA 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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