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Oil Slick

Spell

Oil Slick

Nature

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

The Geargrinder creates a pool of noxious oil that lasts for up to 5 min.

Oil Slick

Tooltip

The Geargrinder creates a pool of noxious oil that lasts for up to 5 min. Players within the pool suffer 5 Nature damage every 1 sec and have their movement speed reduced by 30%. Additionally, players within the effect slip and slide along the ground.

Geargrinder Bikes passing over the spin out, stunning the rider for 5 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Oil Slick is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 5 min. 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

SchoolNature
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration5 min
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 34190

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?

Oil Slick appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 17 separate Spell records named "Oil Slick". This page is record #468129. 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
#196751school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#266975school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#266976used by: Cast by Oil Slick; school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#266979used by: Cast by Oil Slick; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#266985school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278087school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278089used by: Cast by Oil Slick; school: Physical; duration: 30 secA helper record another spell casts
#278100used by: Cast by Burning Oil; school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#293723school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#459679different tooltip textA variant record
#459683duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#459685school: Physical; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Knock BackA 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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