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Petrifying Breath

Spell

Petrifying Breath

Physical

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Instant castFifteen yards

The caster expels petrifying dust in a cone 12 yards long for 3 sec.

Petrifying Breath

Tooltip

The caster expels petrifying dust in a cone 12 yards long for 3 sec. Enemies caught in the cone suffer Physical damage every 0.5 seconds and are affected with Petrification.

How it works

Petrifying Breath is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 300. Its area radius is 12 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). Its area radius is 12 yards. It triggers Petrification.

What it does

Petrifying Breath is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 15 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 300) in a 12 yard radius. It also casts Petrification.

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
Range15 yards (Fifteen yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 300
Radius: 12 yards
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Radius: 12 yards
Trigger spell: Petrification

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 17 separate Spell records named "Petrifying Breath". This page is record #164914. 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
#63980school: Nature; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#80942school: Nature; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Weapon DamageA different effect setup
#164913cast time: 1 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 77, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#164949cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#164950duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#173175cast time: 2 sec; duration: 1.8 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#173176duration: 8 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#176470school: Arcane; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#176473used by: Cast by Petrifying Breath; school: Nature; duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#192269cast time: 2.8 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#192270used by: Cast by Petrifying Breath; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 160, effect 160, School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#216065school: none; effect types: DummyA 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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