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Leeching Swarm

Spell

Leeching Swarm

Nature

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Releases a swarm of insects that attack the caster's enemies, leeching a percentage of each target's current health every 1 sec.

Leeching Swarm

Tooltip

Releases a swarm of insects that attack the caster's enemies, leeching a percentage of each target's current health every 1 sec. A minimum of 250 health will be leeched.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 0.0048.

What it does

Leeching Swarm is a Nature spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 0.0048).

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

SchoolNature
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 0.0048

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 13 separate Spell records named "Leeching Swarm". This page is record #66240. 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
#53467journal encounter: Anub'arak; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#53468used by: Cast by Leeching Swarm; duration: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#59430cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59431used by: Cast by Leeching Swarm; duration: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#66118cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: effect 129; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#66125school: Shadow; effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#276669school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#276671used by: Cast by Leeching Swarm; school: Shadow; effect types: Health LeechA helper record another spell casts
#450632cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#450634effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#450636duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#450637cast time: 1.2 sec; duration: 7.5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Create Area Effect, Create Area Effect; 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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