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Lunatic Gaze

Spell

Lunatic Gaze

Shadow

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Looking into the laughing skull unhinges your mind, inflicting 8.32667 Shadow damage and reducing Sanity by 2% every 1 sec.

Lunatic Gaze

Tooltip

Looking into the laughing skull unhinges your mind, inflicting 8.32667 Shadow damage and reducing Sanity by 2% every 1 sec. for as long as you are facing the caster.

How it works

Lunatic Gaze is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 8.3267. Its area radius is 30 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name. Its area radius is 30 yards.

What it does

Lunatic Gaze is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 8.3267) in a 30 yard radius.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 8.3267
Radius: 30 yards
Effect #2Effect 77
Radius: 30 yards

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Lunatic Gaze appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

  • Yogg-Saron in Ulduar
    Journal section: Stage Two: Descent Into Madness > Descent into Madness > Laughing Skull
    Encounter creatures: Yogg-SaronRaid boss ability

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Lunatic Gaze". This page is record #64168. 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
#64163duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#64164used by: Cast by Lunatic Gaze; effect values: 28.55, 0 (this record: 8.33, 0); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#64167duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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