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Lay on Hands

Spell

Lay on Hands

Holy

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Instant cast60 min cooldownAnywhere - Unlimited

Heals a friendly target to full health.

Lay on Hands

Tooltip

Heals a friendly target to full health.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Lay on Hands is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 136, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 100.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 137, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 100.

What it does

Lay on Hands is a Holy spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and a 1 hr cooldown.

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

SchoolHoly
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 hr
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Effect 136
Value: 100
Effect #2Effect 137
Value: 100

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 "Lay on Hands". This page is record #9257. 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
#633used by: Talent: Paladin; effect types: Heal to Max Health, effect 136; different tooltip textA different owner
#17233subtext: Rank 1; effect types: Heal to Max Health; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#53778school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#150743subtext: Rank 1; effect types: Heal to Max Health; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#176094subtext: Rank 1; effect types: Heal to Max Health; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#176254subtext: Rank 1; effect types: Heal to Max Health; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#179483used by: Cast by Lay on Hands; school: Physical; effect types: effect 77A helper record another spell casts
#179484school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#179485school: Physical; effect types: effect 136; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#234320effect types: Heal to Max Health; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283630effect types: Heal to Max Health; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#348503effect types: Heal to Max Health; 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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