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Empower Rune Weapon

Spell

Empower Rune Weapon

FrostShadow

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Death Knight

Instant castMedium Range

Drain the will of your enemy to empower your rune weapon, dealing (260% of Attack Power) Shadowfrost damage and reduced damage to enemies nearby, gaining 40 Runic Power, and grants you Killing...

Empower Rune Weapon

Tooltip

Drain the will of your enemy to empower your rune weapon, dealing (260% of Attack Power) Shadowfrost damage and reduced damage to enemies nearby, gaining 40 Runic Power, and grants you Killing Machine.

How it works

It works on charges (charge category 1614); the charge count and recharge time live in a client table the datamine does not carry, so they are not stated here. Casting it triggers a 0.8 sec global cooldown.

Empower Rune Weapon is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Empower Rune Weapon.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 2.6 times attack power. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Empower Rune Weapon is a Frost and Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Frost and Shadow damage in an 8 yard radius. It also casts Empower Rune Weapon (record #1231100).

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

SchoolFrost, Shadow
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown0.8 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 1614
ChargesCharge category id 1614 (charge count not in the datamine)
Effect #1Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Empower Rune Weapon
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 2.6
Radius: 8 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?

Empower Rune Weapon appears in: 1 talent and 2 teaching spells.

Talents

Teaching spells

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 2 to 2.6 (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Empower Rune Weapon". This page is record #47568. 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
#89831school: Physical; effect types: EnergizeA different effect setup
#172986school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#317230subtext: Rank 2; school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#392962school: Frost; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#392963school: Frost; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1230959used by: Cast by Empower Rune Weapon; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Energize, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1231100used by: Cast by Empower Rune Weapon; effect types: Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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