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Piercing Strand

Spell

Piercing Strand

Physical

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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 Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 255. Its base value is 100.

What it does

Piercing Strand is a spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 45 sec. When cast it applies an aura.

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
Duration45 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 255
Value: 100
Misc value: 34

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 spell that casts it.

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 #1237212. 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; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1227263difficulty rows: Mythic; journal encounter: Loom'ithar; cast time: 3.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, effect 203A per-difficulty version
#1227265duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1227742school: Arcane; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1237907duration: none; effect types: effect 164, effect 164A different effect setup
#1245602duration: 4 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 100)Different tuning
#1250388difficulty rows: Mythic; school: Nature; duration: 3.5 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 100)A 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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