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Piercing Gaze

Spell

Piercing Gaze

Shadow

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1 sec5 sec cooldownTwenty yards

A sharp gaze pierces your mind, inflicting Shadow damage.

Piercing Gaze

Tooltip

A sharp gaze pierces your mind, inflicting Shadow damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 125.

What it does

Piercing Gaze is a Shadow spell with a 1 sec cast, a range of 20 yards and a 5 sec cooldown. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 125).

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
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast time1 sec
Cooldown5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 125

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 9 separate Spell records named "Piercing Gaze". This page is record #128056. 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
#183135cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#297003school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#297053cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#297057school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 12.5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#300768journal encounter: Queen Azshara; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy, effect 141; different tooltip textA different caster
#300784difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#300785cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#336497school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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