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Piercing Gaze

Spell

Piercing Gaze

Shadow

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2.5 secMedium Range

Inflicts Shadow damage to an enemy, reducing their armor by 75% for 8 sec.

Piercing Gaze

Tooltip

Inflicts Shadow damage to an enemy, reducing their armor by 75% for 8 sec.

How it works

Piercing Gaze is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 300.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 101. Its base value is -75.

What it does

Piercing Gaze is a Shadow spell with a 2.5 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 300) and 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

SchoolShadow
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2.5 sec
Duration8 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 300
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 101
Value: -75
Misc value: 1

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 #183135. 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
#128056cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#297003school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#297053cast time: instant; duration: none; 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; duration: none; 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; duration: none; 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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