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Piercing Barb

Spell

Piercing Barb

Physical

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1.5 sec4 sec cooldownTwenty yards

Pierces a target with both barbed arms, inflicting 35 Physical damage with the first strike and 30 Shadow damage with the second strike.

Piercing Barb

Tooltip

Pierces a target with both barbed arms, inflicting 35 Physical damage with the first strike and 30 Shadow damage with the second strike.

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 35. It triggers Piercing Barb.

What it does

Piercing Barb is a Physical spell with a 1.5 sec cast, a range of 20 yards and a 4 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 35). It also casts Piercing Barb (record #322735).

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 time1.5 sec
Cooldown4 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 35
Trigger spell: Piercing Barb

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?

Piercing Barb 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 11 separate Spell records named "Piercing Barb". This page is record #322736. 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
#301477school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#301492school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#301494school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#301725school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#301929school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#301930journal encounter: Blackwater Behemoth; school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#305187school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#322735used by: Cast by Piercing Barb; school: Shadow; cast time: instant; effect values: 30 (this record: 35); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#379983used by: Cast by Piercing Barb; cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#379986used by: Cast by Piercing Barb; cast time: instant; 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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