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Petrifying Gaze

Spell

Petrifying Gaze

Physical

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Instant castTwenty yards

The caster focuses a petrifying gaze at all players in front of them.

Petrifying Gaze

Tooltip

The caster focuses a petrifying gaze at all players in front of them. If the gaze is allowed to finish, the victim is turned to stone for 4 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. Its area radius is 20 yards. It ticks every 4 sec. It triggers Petrified.

What it does

Petrifying Gaze is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 20 yards and effects that last 4 sec. When cast it applies an aura in a 20 yard radius every 4 sec. It also casts Petrified.

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
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration4 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Radius: 20 yards
Period: every 4 sec
Trigger spell: Petrified

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 20 separate Spell records named "Petrifying Gaze". This page is record #257628. 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
#133769used by: Cast by Petrifying Gaze; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#133770cast time: 1 sec; duration: 11 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger SpellA different effect setup
#133772used by: Cast by Petrifying Gaze; duration: 11 secA helper record another spell casts
#140248cast time: 2 sec; duration: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#200429cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#200431used by: Cast by Petrifying Gaze; school: Nature; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#257626different tooltip textA variant record
#258390difficulty rows: Mythic; school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#263841subtext: Special Ability; used by: Pet - Basilisk; duration: 6 sec; effect values: -50 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#270410school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#373521used by: Cast by Petrifying Gaze; school: Shadow; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#374719school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: effect 142; 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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