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Piercing Missiles

Spell

Piercing Missiles

Arcane

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Instant castTower 100

The Shade of Medivh pierces a player with Arcane magic for 5 sec, inflicting 26.4485 Arcane damage every 0.5 sec.

Piercing Missiles

Tooltip

The Shade of Medivh pierces a player with Arcane magic for 5 sec, inflicting 26.4485 Arcane damage every 0.5 sec. This effect increases the Arcane damage taken of the target by 10% for 20 sec if Piercing Missiles is channeled for its full duration.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 23. It ticks every 0.5 sec, 10 times over the full 5 sec. It triggers Piercing Missiles.

What it does

Piercing Missiles is an Arcane spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 5 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 0.5 sec. It also casts Piercing Missiles (record #227641).

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

SchoolArcane
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Duration5 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 23
Period: every 0.5 sec
Trigger spell: Piercing Missiles

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 Missiles 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 3 separate Spell records named "Piercing Missiles". This page is record #227628. 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
#227641used by: Cast by Piercing Missiles; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#227644duration: 20 sec; effect values: 10 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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