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Piercing Shot

Spell

Piercing Shot

Fire

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Hunter

2 sec5 sec cooldownLong Range

Fires an arrow that pierces an enemey's armor, increasing their damage taken by 25%.

Piercing Shot

Tooltip

Fires an arrow that pierces an enemey's armor, increasing their damage taken by 25%.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 125.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 87. Its base value is 25.

What it does

Piercing Shot is a Fire spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 40 yards, a 5 sec cooldown and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 125) 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

SchoolFire
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown5 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 125
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 87
Value: 25
Misc value: 127

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 14 separate Spell records named "Piercing Shot". This page is record #126595. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#6685school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; effect values: 100, -10 (this record: 125, 25); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#62319school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#149557school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#149558school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#190317school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#198670school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#199226used by: Cast by Penetrating Shot; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#213678school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#232521school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#256889school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#308308school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308311used by: Cast by Piercing Shot; school: Shadow; cast time: instant; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA 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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