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Pain Spike

Spell

Pain Spike

Shadow

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Instant castMedium Range

Causes 10 Shadow damage instantly, but the damage caused will begin healing itself 5 seconds after landing.

Pain Spike

Tooltip

Causes 10 Shadow damage instantly, but the damage caused will begin healing itself 5 seconds after landing.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 23. Its base value is 10 per tick. It ticks every 5 sec. It triggers spell id 18350.

What it does

Pain Spike is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 5 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 5 sec.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration5 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 23
Value: 10
Period: every 5 sec
Trigger spell id 18350

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 14 separate Spell records named "Pain Spike". This page is record #25572. 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
#24117school: Physical; effect values: 1 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32026duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#32741duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#32742duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#128052school: Physical; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#132728duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#312078journal encounter: N'Zoth the Corruptor; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#314784cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#320269cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#320299duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#335680cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#348796cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, 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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