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Piercing Barb

Spell

Piercing Barb

Nature

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Instant castSelf Only

Fires a Piercing Barb at a player, inflicting 400 Nature damage.

Piercing Barb

Tooltip

Fires a Piercing Barb at a player, inflicting 400 Nature damage. This damage is divided between the targeted player and all other players struck by the Barb.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Piercing Barb is a Nature spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 1 sec. When cast it applies an aura.

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

SchoolNature
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Duration1 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4

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 11 separate Spell records named "Piercing Barb". This page is record #301492. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#301477duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#301494duration: 6 secA variant record
#301725duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#301929duration: none; effect types: School Damage, DummyA different effect setup
#301930journal encounter: Blackwater Behemoth; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#305187duration: 6 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#322735used by: Cast by Piercing Barb; school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#322736journal encounter: Hakkar the Soulflayer; school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#379983used by: Cast by Piercing Barb; school: Physical; duration: none; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#379986used by: Cast by Piercing Barb; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; 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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