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Dead Man's Switch

Spell

Dead Man's Switch

Physical

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Upon going unconscious, the dead man's switch activates firing missiles to nearby enemies.

Dead Man's Switch

Tooltip

Upon going unconscious, the dead man's switch activates firing missiles to nearby enemies.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). Its area radius is 8 yards. It triggers High-Explosive Rockets.

What it does

Dead Man's Switch is a spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it launches a missile in an 8 yard radius. It also casts High-Explosive Rockets.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Trigger Missile (32)
Radius: 8 yards
Trigger spell: High-Explosive Rockets

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 3 separate Spell records named "Dead Man's Switch". This page is record #466313. 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
#396181duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#466520duration: 2.5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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