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Pain Spike

Spell

Pain Spike

Shadow

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Instant cast3 sec cooldownThree Hundred Yards

Flings a spike of void energy, inflicting 15 Shadow damage.

Pain Spike

Tooltip

Flings a spike of void energy, inflicting 15 Shadow damage.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 15.

What it does

Pain Spike is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and a 3 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 15).

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
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown3 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 15

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?

Pain Spike 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 14 separate Spell records named "Pain Spike". This page is record #312078. 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
#25572subtext: Rank 1; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#32026effect values: 147 (this record: 15); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32741effect values: 297 (this record: 15); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32742effect values: 372 (this record: 15); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#128052school: Physical; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#132728effect values: 147 (this record: 15); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#314784cast time: 2 sec; 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
#320299effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#335680cast time: 2 sec; 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
#355887cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA 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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