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Guard

Spell

Guard

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

You Guard against future attacks, absorbing damage up to 0.0227152% of your maximum health.

Guard

Tooltip

You Guard against future attacks, absorbing damage up to 0.0227152% of your maximum health. In addition, healing taken is increased by 30% while the guard holds.

Any heals you apply to yourself while Guarding are increased by 30%.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 69. Its base value is 0.0227.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 118. Its base value is 30.

What it does

Guard is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 30 sec. When cast it applies an aura.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration30 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 69
Value: 0.0227
Misc value: 127
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 118
Value: 30
Misc value: 127

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 9 separate Spell records named "Guard". This page is record #128849. 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
#115295duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#171452effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#173343duration: 15 sec; effect values: -50, 50 (this record: 0.02, 30); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#263060used by: Cast by Guard; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#263063cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#272880duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#385212subtext: Off Hand; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#1298064duration: until cancelled; 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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