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Piercing Gale

Spell

Piercing Gale

Physical

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2 sec3 sec cooldownSelf Only

Slashes out with the power of wind, inflicting 44.5216 Physical damage to players in a straight line.

Piercing Gale

Tooltip

Slashes out with the power of wind, inflicting 44.5216 Physical damage to players in a straight line.

Images of Advisor Melandrus also copy this ability when cast.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

Piercing Gale is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 44.5216. Its area radius is 40 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 75. Its area radius is 40 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Piercing Gale.

What it does

Piercing Gale is a Physical spell with a 2 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and a 3 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 44.5216) in a 40 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 40 yard radius. It also casts Piercing Gale (record #209671).

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown3 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 44.5216
Radius: 40 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 75
Misc value: 175
Radius: 40 yards
Effect #3Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Piercing Gale

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 Gale 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 5 separate Spell records named "Piercing Gale". This page is record #209628. 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
#209630different tooltip textA variant record
#209671used by: Cast by Piercing Gale; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger MissileA helper record another spell casts
#209675used by: Cast by Piercing Gale; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#210534used by: Cast by Piercing Gale; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA 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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