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Oblivion Spear

Spell

Oblivion Spear

Shadow

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Instant castTower 80

Your damaging abilities have a chance to launch an oblivion spear at your target, inflicting Shadow damage.

Oblivion Spear

Tooltip

Your damaging abilities have a chance to launch an oblivion spear at your target, inflicting Shadow damage. On impact, the spear will shatter towards you. You will be silenced for 1.5 sec if struck.

How it works

Oblivion Spear is built from 4 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  3. Effect 3 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  4. Effect 4 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Oblivion Spear is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 80 yards and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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
Range80 yards (Tower 80)
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 17129
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 17130
Effect #3Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 16583
Effect #4Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 17232

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 5 separate Spell records named "Oblivion Spear". This page is record #295394. 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
#295391school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295392used by: Cast by Oblivion Spear; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA helper record another spell casts
#295393used by: Cast by Oblivion Spear; duration: none; effect types: School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#295395duration: 1.5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA 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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