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Piercing Gaze

Spell

Piercing Gaze

Physical

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Instant castTwo-Hundred Yard Range

Azshara harnesses N'Zoth's power into a piercing beam of Shadowy energies.

Piercing Gaze

Tooltip

Azshara harnesses N'Zoth's power into a piercing beam of Shadowy energies. Players caught in the blast suffer 40 Shadow damage.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 300 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 141, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 177268. It triggers spell id 290137.

What it does

Piercing Gaze is a spell with an instant cast and a range of 200 yards.

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
Range200 yards (Two-Hundred Yard Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Radius: 300 yards
Effect #2Effect 141
Value: 177268
Trigger spell id 290137

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 Gaze 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 9 separate Spell records named "Piercing Gaze". This page is record #300768. 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
#128056school: Shadow; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183135school: Shadow; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#297003effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#297053school: Shadow; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#297057cast time: instant; duration: 12.5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#300784difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#300785school: Shadow; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#336497duration: 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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