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Piercing Gaze

Spell

Piercing Gaze

Shadow

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 40.

What it does

Piercing Gaze is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 300 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 40).

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
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 40

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 #300785. 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; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183135cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#297003school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#297053effect 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; effect types: Dummy, effect 141; different tooltip textA different caster
#300784difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; school: Physical; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA per-difficulty version
#336497school: Physical; 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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