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Festering Wound

Spell

Festering Wound

Shadow

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

A pustulent lesion that will burst on death or when damaged by Scourge Strike, dealing 1.5 Shadow damage and generating 3 Runic Power.

Festering Wound

Tooltip

A pustulent lesion that will burst on death or when damaged by Scourge Strike, dealing 1.5 Shadow damage and generating 3 Runic Power.

How it works

Its dispel type is client id 3. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Festering Wound is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1.5.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3).

What it does

Festering Wound is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 1.5).

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Dispel typeDispel type id 3
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1.5
Effect #2Dummy (3)

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 11 separate Spell records named "Festering Wound". This page is record #295875. 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
#38254school: Nature; duration: 30 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#164479used by: Cast by Festering Maw; school: Nature; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#194311effect values: 0, 0 (this record: 1.5, 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#195757used by: Cast by Festering Wound; effect types: Dummy, Energize; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#197147used by: Death Knight; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#220417school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295873duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295874effect types: Dummy, EnergizeA different effect setup
#1227017school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1227025school: none; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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