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PhysicalTooltip
Gather ore and other minerals from deposits for use in Engineering, Blacksmithing, and Jewelcrafting.
How it works
Mining is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Open Lock (effect type 33). Its base value is 1275.
- Effect 2 is Open Lock (effect type 33). Its base value is 1275.
- Effect 3 is effect type 118, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 1. It scales with 1 times spell power.
What it does
Mining is a spell with a 3.2 sec cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it opens a lock.
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
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | 5 yards (Interact Range) |
| Cast time | 3.2 sec |
| Effect #1 | Open Lock (33) Value: 1275 Misc value: 3 |
| Effect #2 | Open Lock (33) Value: 1275 Misc value: 167 |
| Effect #3 | Effect 118 Value: 1 Spell power coefficient: 1 Misc value: 186 |
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?
Mining appears in: 1 skill line and 2 teaching spells.
Skill lines
- MiningSkill line
Teaching spells
- Apprentice MinerTeaches this spell
- MiningTeaches this spell
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Mining spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 67 separate Spell records named "Mining". This page is record #2575. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #2576 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #3564 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #10248 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #13612 | used by: Enchanting; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Enchant Item; different tooltip text | A different owner |
| #29354 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #32606 | cast time: 1.6 sec; effect types: effect 95 | A different effect setup |
| #50310 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #74517 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #102161 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #135120 | cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Dummy | A different effect setup |
| #158754 | effect types: Open Lock, effect 118; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #170599 | effect types: Open Lock | A 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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