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Homing Missile

Spell

Homing Missile

Fire

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3 secAnywhere - Unlimited

Fires a homing missile that chases a player.

Homing Missile

Tooltip

Fires a homing missile that chases a player. On impact, or after 10 sec, the missile explodes, inflicting 15 Fire damage immediately and 6.13242 Fire damage every 2 sec for 6 sec to all players of the missile. The missile's speed increases as it travels.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).

What it does

Homing Missile is a Fire spell with a 3 sec cast and an unlimited range.

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

SchoolFire
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast time3 sec
Effect #1Dummy (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 18 separate Spell records named "Homing Missile". This page is record #260813. 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
#260811journal encounter: Mogul Razdunk; cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#260815school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#260829used by: Cast by Homing Missile; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#260835cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#260836used by: Cast by Homing Missile; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#260837cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#260838cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, effect 164A different effect setup
#287575school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#287576difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; used by: Cast by Homing Missile; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#312108school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#312109used by: Cast by Homing Missile; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#312126school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA 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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