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Petrifying Gaze

Spell

Petrifying Gaze

Shadow

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2 sec12 sec cooldownMedium Range

Curse an enemy with a petrifying stare, dealing 8 Shadow damage.

Petrifying Gaze

Tooltip

Curse an enemy with a petrifying stare, dealing 8 Shadow damage. Does not affect enemies facing away from you.

Petrified enemies are stunned for 3 sec.

How it works

Spells that share its cooldown category wait 3 sec after it is cast. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 2.

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 142, which the datamine does not name. It triggers Petrifying Gaze.

What it does

Petrifying Gaze is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and a 12 sec cooldown. It also casts Petrifying Gaze (record #373521).

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 time2 sec
Cooldown12 sec
Category cooldown3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Dispel typeDispel type id 2
Effect #1Effect 142
Trigger spell: Petrifying Gaze

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 #374719. 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
#200429school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#200431used by: Cast by Petrifying Gaze; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#257626school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#257628school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#258390difficulty rows: Mythic; school: Nature; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#263841subtext: Special Ability; used by: Pet - Basilisk; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#270410school: Nature; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#373521used by: Cast by Petrifying Gaze; cast time: instant; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#392425school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#392432school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#461886school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 226; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#461891used by: Cast by Petrifying Gaze; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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