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Defensive Stance

Spell

Defensive Stance

Physical

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Adventurer

Instant castAnywhere (Combat Min Range)

Defensive spells remove stuns, disorients, and incapacitating effects.

Defensive Stance

Tooltip

Defensive spells remove stuns, disorients, and incapacitating effects.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. It triggers Remove Loss of Control.

What it does

Defensive Stance is a spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Remove Loss of Control.

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
Range5-50000 yards (Anywhere (Combat Min Range))
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Trigger spell: Remove Loss of Control

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 14 separate Spell records named "Defensive Stance". This page is record #371891. 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
#7164duration: 3 min; different tooltip textA variant record
#41101different tooltip textA variant record
#53790different tooltip textA variant record
#143593duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#145044effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#164363duration: 30 sec; effect values: -25 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#193580duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#238245effect types: Apply Aura, Spawn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#386208used by: Talent: Warrior; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#1243856duration: 168 hr; different tooltip textA variant record
#1261776journal encounter: Nalorakk; duration: 10.1 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#1261781effect types: Apply Aura, 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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