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Piercing Shot

Spell

Piercing Shot

Physical

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Hunter

Instant castTower 80

Shoots at an enemy, inflicting 147.277 damage.

Piercing Shot

Tooltip

Shoots at an enemy, inflicting 147.277 damage.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 147.277. Its area radius is 70 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3).

What it does

Piercing Shot is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 80 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 147.277) in a 70 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
Range80 yards (Tower 80)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 147.277
Radius: 70 yards
Effect #2Dummy (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 #62319. 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
#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
#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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