Skip to content
Homing Missile

Spell

Homing Missile

Physical

Advertisement

Instant castSuper Long

Fires powerful homing missiles at nearby hostile targets.

Homing Missile

Tooltip

Fires powerful homing missiles at nearby hostile targets.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). Its area radius is 15 yards. It triggers Homing Missile.

What it does

Homing Missile is a spell with an instant cast and a range of 150 yards. When cast it launches a missile in a 15 yard radius. It also casts Homing Missile (record #312109).

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
Range150 yards (Super Long)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Trigger Missile (32)
Radius: 15 yards
Trigger spell: Homing Missile

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 #312126. 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; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#260815duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#260829used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#260835school: Fire; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#260836used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#260837school: Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#260838school: Fire; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, effect 164; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#287575cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#287576difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#312108different tooltip textA variant record
#312109used by: Cast by Homing Missile; school: Fire; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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.

Comments

Read player comments on Homing Missile at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)