Tooltip
- Projectile
- Recast actions
- Close range
14 sec cooldown
Hurl a blessed shield forward, damaging enemies in its path before returning to you.
Recast to trigger a holy explosion at the shield's location.
What it does
Holy Shield is a spell with a 1 sec cast, a range of 40 yards, a 14 sec cooldown and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect in a 4 yard radius.
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 facts
Datamined from the current retail game build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | 40 yards (Long Range) |
| Cast time | 1 sec |
| Cooldown | 14 sec |
| Global cooldown | 1 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Duration | Infinite |
| Effect #1 | Create Area Effect (179) Value: 100 Misc value: 31828 Radius: 4 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.
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 33 separate Spell records named "Holy Shield". This page is record #433380. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #169681 | used by: Cast by Holy Shield; cast time: instant; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Apply Aura | A helper record another spell casts |
| #174204 | difficulty rows: Heroic; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile | A per-difficulty version |
| #348467 | school: Holy; cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #367574 | cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, effect 203, effect 203; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #433436 | school: Holy; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #433472 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #433473 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #433474 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #434120 | cast time: instant; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura | A different effect setup |
| #435190 | school: Holy; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #435196 | school: Holy; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #435199 | school: Holy; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A 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.