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Howling Winds

Spell

Howling Winds

Shadow

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Instant castTower 100

Deals Shadow damage to enemies inside the area.

Howling Winds

Tooltip

Deals Shadow damage to enemies inside the area.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 10 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec.

What it does

Howling Winds is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec.

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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 10
Period: every 1 sec

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 16 separate Spell records named "Howling Winds". This page is record #341510. 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
#143937school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Jump to DestinationA different effect setup
#288099school: Physical; duration: 10 min; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#288169journal encounter: Lady Jaina Proudmoore; school: Frost; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#288199school: Frost; duration: 10 min; effect values: 0 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#289861journal encounter: Lady Jaina Proudmoore; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Teleport; different tooltip textA different caster
#289866journal encounter: Lady Jaina Proudmoore; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Teleport; different tooltip textA different caster
#290053school: Frost; duration: 10 min; effect values: 0 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#290284used by: Cast by Flash Freeze; school: Frost; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#290535school: Frost; effect values: 0 (this record: 10)Different tuning
#341355school: Physical; duration: 2 min; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#341459school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#341509school: Physical; effect values: 0 (this record: 10)Different tuning

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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