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Piercing Strand

Spell

Piercing Strand

Arcane

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Instant castAnywhere - 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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 172.5. It applies the infected mechanic. It triggers Piercing Strand.

What it does

Piercing Strand is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Arcane damage (base value 172.5) with the infected mechanic. It also casts Piercing Strand (record #1237907).

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

SchoolArcane
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 172.5
Mechanic: Infected
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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Piercing Strand". This page is record #1227742. 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; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1227263difficulty rows: Mythic; journal encounter: Loom'ithar; school: Physical; cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, effect 203; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#1227265school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1237212difficulty rows: Normal, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Piercing Strand; school: Physical; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#1237907used by: Cast by Piercing Strand; school: Physical; effect types: effect 164, effect 164; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1245602school: Physical; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1250388difficulty rows: Mythic; used by: Cast by Piercing Strand; school: Nature; duration: 3.5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA per-difficulty version

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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