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Piercing Strand

Spell

Piercing Strand

Physical

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3.5 secAnywhere - Unlimited

Loom'ithar launches a heavily infused strand through their current target at high speed, inflicting 172.5 Arcane damage to all players in a line and increasing damage taken from Piercing Strand by...

Piercing Strand

Tooltip

Loom'ithar launches a heavily infused strand through their current target at high speed, inflicting 172.5 Arcane damage to all players in a line and increasing damage taken from Piercing Strand by 100% for 45 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 203, which the datamine does not name. It triggers Piercing Strand.

What it does

Piercing Strand is a spell with a 3.5 sec cast and an unlimited range. It also casts Piercing Strand (record #1250388).

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 time3.5 sec
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2Effect 203
Trigger spell: Piercing Strand

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 Strand appears in: 1 boss encounter and 2 spells that cast it.

Boss encounters

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Piercing Strand". This page is record #1227263. 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
#1227261school: Nature, Arcane; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1227265cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1227742school: Arcane; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1237212difficulty rows: Normal, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Piercing Strand; cast time: instant; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA per-difficulty version
#1237907used by: Cast by Piercing Strand; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 164, effect 164A helper record another spell casts
#1245602cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1250388used by: Cast by Piercing Strand; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 3.5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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