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Death Grip

Spell

Death Grip

Shadow

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Instant castMedium Range

Harness the unholy energy that surrounds and binds all matter, drawing the target toward the you.

Death Grip

Tooltip

Harness the unholy energy that surrounds and binds all matter, drawing the target toward the you.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 140, which the datamine does not name. It triggers Soul Shift.

What it does

Death Grip is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. The client files the whole spell under the knockbacked mechanic. It also casts Soul Shift.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
MechanicKnockbacked
Effect #1Effect 140
Trigger spell: Soul Shift

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 55 separate Spell records named "Death Grip". This page is record #136934. 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
#99123school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#101397duration: 1 sec; effect types: effect 77, Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#101987used by: Cast by Death Grip; school: Physical; effect types: Jump to DestinationA helper record another spell casts
#113021school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#117757school: Physical; effect types: Jump to Destination; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#117758school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#143403school: Physical; effect types: Jump to Destination; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#143404used by: Cast by Death Grip; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#143405school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#168562school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#168563school: Physical; effect types: effect 213A different effect setup
#191650school: Physical; effect types: effect 213; 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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