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Piercing Shot

Spell

Piercing Shot

Physical

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Hunter

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

A powerful shot which deals Physical damage to the target and up to Physical damage to all enemies between you and the target.

Piercing Shot

Tooltip

A powerful shot which deals Physical damage to the target and up to Physical damage to all enemies between you and the target.

Piercing Shot ignores the target's armor.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).

What it does

Piercing Shot is a spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Dummy (3)

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 #232521. 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
#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
#149557effect types: School Damage; 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
#190317no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#198670effect types: Dummy, School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#199226used by: Cast by Penetrating ShotA helper record another spell casts
#213678effect types: Dummy, School DamageA different effect setup
#256889no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#308308school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#308311used by: Cast by Piercing Shot; school: Shadow; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#308357school: Shadow; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; 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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