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Death Grip

Spell

Death Grip

Shadow

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Instant cast15 sec cooldownMedium Range

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

Death Grip

Tooltip

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

How it works

Casting it triggers a 0.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Death Grip is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and a 15 sec cooldown. The client files the whole spell under the knockbacked mechanic.

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
Cooldown15 sec
Global cooldown0.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
MechanicKnockbacked
Effect #1Effect 77

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 #282126. 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
#243487school: Physical; effect types: effect 138; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#243912school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#246250school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#247679school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278284duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#284345effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#284346effect types: Jump to DestinationA different effect setup
#311977different tooltip textA variant record
#313629effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#313636effect types: Jump to DestinationA different effect setup
#313641effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#313642effect types: Jump to DestinationA 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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