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Obliteration

Spell

Obliteration

Physical

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Death Knight

Instant castSelf Only

During Pillar of Frost, Frost Strike, Glacial Advance, and Howling Blast always grant Killing Machine and have a 20% chance to generate a Rune.

Obliteration

Tooltip

During Pillar of Frost, Frost Strike, Glacial Advance, and Howling Blast always grant Killing Machine and have a 20% chance to generate a Rune.

Additionally during Pillar of Frost, Empower Rune Weapon causes your next Obliterate or Frostscythe to cost no Runes.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Energize (effect type 30). Its base value is 1.

What it does

Obliteration is a Physical spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it restores a resource (base value 1).

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
Effect #1Energize (30)
Value: 1
Misc value: 5

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 12 separate Spell records named "Obliteration". This page is record #281327. 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
#132275school: Arcane; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#156406journal encounter: Operator Thogar; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#156439school: Fire; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#175139duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#187893duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#207256used by: Cast by Obliteration; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#212497duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#231255cast time: 2.2 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#231257school: Arcane; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#254353duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#281238used by: Talent: Death Knight; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different owner

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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