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Gusting Winds

Spell

Gusting Winds

PhysicalNature

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Instant castSelf Only

Dealings 15% of the target's health in damage and knocks them back.

Gusting Winds

Tooltip

Dealings 15% of the target's health in damage and knocks them back.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 25.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 15.

What it does

Gusting Winds is a Physical and Nature spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it has a Knock Back effect and deals Physical and Nature damage (base value 15).

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, Nature
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 25
Misc value: 150
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 15

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 "Gusting Winds". This page is record #284198. 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
#94582school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Area Aura (Party); different tooltip textA different effect setup
#121282school: Nature; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Create Area Effect, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#121284school: Nature; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#125318used by: Cast by Gusting Winds; school: Nature; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#198134school: Frost; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Create Area Effect, Spawn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#199446school: Frost; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#217148school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#217149used by: Cast by Gusting Winds; school: Nature; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#217152school: Nature; effect types: effect 144, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#217159school: Nature; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#241776school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#284197school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, 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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