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Initiative

Spell

Initiative

Physical

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Demon Hunter

Instant castSelf Only

Damaging an enemy before they damage you increases your critical strike chance by 10% for 5 sec.

Initiative

Tooltip

Damaging an enemy before they damage you increases your critical strike chance by 10% for 5 sec.

Vengeful Retreat refreshes your potential to trigger this effect on any enemies you are in combat with.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 290. Its base value is 10.

What it does

Initiative is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 5 sec. When cast it 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
Duration5 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 290
Value: 10

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 4 separate Spell records named "Initiative". This page is record #391215. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#388108used by: Talent: Demon Hunter; duration: none; different tooltip textA different owner
#1261044duration: none; effect values: 0 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#1261108effect values: 50 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent 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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