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Piercing Howl

Spell

Piercing Howl

Physical

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3 secSelf Only

The caster howls, inflicting 25 Sonic damage and interrupting any spell being cast for 5 sec.

Piercing Howl

Tooltip

The caster howls, inflicting 25 Sonic damage and interrupting any spell being cast for 5 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 25. Its area radius is 40 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Interrupt Cast (effect type 68). Its area radius is 30 yards.

What it does

Piercing Howl is a Physical spell with a 3 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 5 sec. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 25) in a 40 yard radius and interrupts spellcasting in a 30 yard radius.

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 time3 sec
Duration5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 25
Radius: 40 yards
Effect #2Interrupt Cast (68)
Radius: 30 yards

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 Howl". This page is record #464992. 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
#10576cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#12323used by: Talent: Warrior; cast time: instant; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different owner
#23600cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38256cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43530cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#52744cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#85691cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1244157used by: Cast by Piercing Howl; cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA 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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