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Homing Missile

Spell

Homing Missile

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

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

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

  1. Effect 1 is Spawn (effect type 46).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Homing Missile is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it has a Spawn effect and 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
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Spawn (46)
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4

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 #260815. 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; school: Fire; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#260813school: Fire; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#260829used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#260835school: Fire; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#260836used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#260837school: Fire; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#260838school: Fire; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, effect 164A different effect setup
#287575cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#287576difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#312108duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#312109used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#312126duration: none; 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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