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Piercing Shot

Spell

Piercing Shot

Physical

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Shoots a Piercing Arrow, damaging all enemies in a line up to 15 yards in front of you.

Piercing Shot

Tooltip

Shoots a Piercing Arrow, damaging all enemies in a line up to 15 yards in front of you.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2.9147.

What it does

Piercing Shot is a Physical spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 2.9147).

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2.9147

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 #149557. 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
#6685duration: 15 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62319effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#126595school: Fire; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#149558cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#190317effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#198670effect types: Dummy, School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#199226used by: Cast by Penetrating Shot; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#213678effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#232521effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#256889effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#308308school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#308311used by: Cast by Piercing Shot; school: Shadow; 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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